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
paint
paint Any royal card. Used mostly in lowball games, where royal cards are rarely helpful. pair Two cards of the same rank. See main article: one pair passive A style of play characterized by checking and calling. Compare to "aggressive", "loose", "tight".
pat
pat Already complete. A hand is a pat hand when, for example, a flush comes on the first five cards dealt in Draw poker. Also see Made hand. pay off To call a bet when you are most likely drawing dead because the pot odds justify the call.