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Chopping The Pot - Poker terms

webmaster@online-poker-insider.com (The Poker Insider) — Tue, 21 Feb 2006 01:11:44 GMT

In hold'em when no one plays in a hand pre-flop (everyone folds) and only the blinds are left to act you will sometimes find that both players are happy to take their forced bets back (the small blind and big blind) and don't play the hand. This is an instance of chopping the pot...

Community Cards - Poker terms

webmaster@online-poker-insider.com (The Poker Insider) — Wed, 22 Feb 2006 01:06:35 GMT

Community cards are face-up cards that everyone in the poker game shares, and are allowed to use in order to make their best possible hand.

Coffeehousing - Poker terms

webmaster@online-poker-insider.com (The Poker Insider) — Tue, 21 Feb 2006 01:03:30 GMT

When you talk incessantly during a poker hand you are said to be coffeehousing. It is a subtle and quite sneaky strategy whereby you attempt to distract the opposition with verbal flair, and also try to weasel information in this way from your competition...

Under The Gun - Poker terms

webmaster@online-poker-insider.com (The Poker Insider) — Mon, 20 Feb 2006 15:25:03 GMT

When you are first to act pre-flop in Hold'em or Omaha you are said to be under the gun. You sit immediately to the left of the big blind and must act first after the hole cards are dealt. Your position is very precarious hence the ominous sound of the term...

Fish - Poker terms

webmaster@online-poker-insider.com (The Poker Insider) — Mon, 20 Feb 2006 15:17:18 GMT

Every poker game has its fish. In poker terminology a fish is a sucker, and one might go so far as to say that the weakest player at any poker table is the fish. This would mean that at one time or another every poker player has been another poker player's fish!