These are the five basic terms you MUST know before you sit down at any sort of poker table. Knowing these will give you one less thing to worry about when you’re at the table.
Check – Saying this means that you had the option to bet, but you’ve declined that option.
Fold – To fold means to exit the hand.
Bet – Betting is putting money into a pot before anyone else does.
Call – Calling means matching a bet or a raise that has been placed.
Raise – Raising is increasing a bet or call that has already been made.
Remember, these are very important to know. An example is linked below, but before you read the example, let me introduce one more concept:
Blinds – Blinds are forced bets that are required before a hand even begins. Usually, there is a small blind and big blind, the small blind being half the size of the big blind. The forced bets rotate to the left, one person at a time, after every hand.
Here’s that example I promised you:
As you can see, we won the hand with a straight flush, weren’t we lucky?
Finally, we’re going to discuss betting structures, and then it’s off to the statistics and calculations section of this website, where all sorts of odds will be discussed.
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