If you're sitting down at a poker tournament, make sure you know what all the words on this list mean, so you won't miss out on what's going on or make any needless poker mistakes.
Getting Started at Poker Tournaments
There are some key terms you'll want to learn before you sit down:
If you are playing a poker tournament online or looking up listings for poker tournaments you'll need to translate what they mean by knowing all the common
poker acronyms like
MTT and
SnG.
One thing people will throw around a lot are slang terms for the two hole cards one starts with in Hold'em -- if you know these and can throw them in your own poker talk, you'll appear less green. Here are the
slang terms for hold'em hands.
Terms You'll Hear During the Tournament
As the tournament progresses, you'll hear people yell a lot more than "
All in!" and "What a
bad beat!" -- finish off your pre-tournament poker slang learning by brushing up on these terms:
