Poker Math That Matters

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Stakes: The size of the blinds in the game you’re playing.
Straight: Five cards of mixed suits in sequence.
Street: A round of betting after another card(s) has been dealt.
Suck Out: When someone wins a hand when they were a large
underdog previously in the hand.
Table Selection: Picking the game in which you’re going to
play.
Tight: A player who plays very few hands preflop is considered
a tight player.
Tilt: When a players makes decisions based on something other
than logic. A classic example is when someone is upset for
some reason and as a result is playing badly.
Trips: Three of a kind where you have a hole card that matches
two cards of the same rank on the board.
Undercard: A card lower than another specified card or group
of cards. Example: If the flop was KT3, and a 2 came on the
turn. The 2 is an undercard to the flop.
Underpair: A pocket pair that is lower than any of the cards on
the board. Also a pocket pair lower than an opponent’s pocket
pair.
Upswing: When a player wins a lot of money relative to the big
blind of the game.
Value-bet: Betting when one believes he has the best hand.
Win Rate: A player’s rate of earn.
Wired Pair: See “Pocket pair”