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
overcall
overcall To call a bet after others have called, esp. big bets. Jim bet, Alice called, then Ted overcalled. Compare to "cold call", "flat call", "smooth call". overcard 1.A community card with a higher rank than a player's pocket pair. 2.A higher card. Ted held two overcards to Jill's pair with two cards to come. overpair In community card games such as Texas hold 'em and Omaha hold 'em, a pocket pair with a higher rank than any community card.
overs
overs An option to increase the stakes in limit games. Players may elect to play or not play overs; those who choose to play display some sort of token. If, at the beginning of a betting round after the first, only overs players remain in the hand, bets of twice the present limit are allowed. Most often used in home games as a compromise between aggressive and meek players.