Tournament Strategies
After receiving pocket cards, you are immediately faced with a choice: play your cards and either raise or call the blinds, or fold.
Practice Matters
juice
juice Money collected by the house. Also "vig", "vigorish". See rake. junk A hand with little expected value. K[edit]kicker See main article: kicker. kill button In a kill game a button that shows which player has the kill action. See main article: kill game. kill game, kill pot See main article: kill game.
kill hand
kill hand A hand with different betting rules in a kill game. See main article: kill game. kitty A pool of money built by collecting small amounts from certain pots, often used to buy refreshments, cards, and so on. The home-game equivalent of a rake. L[edit]lag A "loose aggressive" style of play in which a player plays a lot of starting hands and makes many small raises in hopes of out-playing his opponents. last to act A player is last to act if all players between the player and the button have folded.