Poker Education

Nice to see you again! Today I will go over more terms that should help you to beat the games on money poker sites. I have to say that I am really liking this alphabetical theme a lot. At the very least it prevents me from agonizing over the vast number of choices in the poker dictionary.

For the letter “I” let’s define ICM, which is short for Independent Chip Model. If your main game is STTs on a Full Tilt Poker download, knowing about ICM is a must. It assigns a cash value to your chips when there are less than 10 players remaining in a tournament.

The letter J does not have a lot of variety when it comes to poker terms, so let’s just quickly look at “jam”. If you have some free poker training and the instructor says he likes a jam, he is saying that he likes going all-in. You can use it in place of “shove” or “push”.

I picked “kill” for the letter K. If you decide to play poker at your B&M instead of download Roulette, there is often a kill game going on. A kill acts as an additional blind for anyone that wins two hands in a row. A half kill requires just 1.5 times the big blind while a full kill is 2 times the big blind. Those that shy away from aggro tables on poker flash sites are bound to enjoy kill tables because they can stifle hyper-aggression.

When someone calls, raises, or bets “light”, they are doing it with a hand that is usually second best. Imagine that you are playing on Tiger Gaming and you have 74 in the small blind. Someone with a high steal percentage pops it up on the button, and you elect to raise it up since you know he is weak a large percentage of the time. He is likely raising light in late position, and you are 3-betting light in return. You should encounter these types of hands often on poker sites.

Well that was my last term for this entry. In a few weeks I will get started again with the letter M. This gives you plenty of time to practice your game.