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Knowing Your Poker Talk
With online poker comes a lot of poker acronyms that take time to be learnt and understood. You might see them in a chat box whilst playing in your favourite poker room or you might see it on online blogs whenever they are talking about poker strategy or hand histories. Here are a few of the most popular poker acronyms, make sure you learn them all.
- AI - All In - To go all in
- AIPF - All In Pre Flop
- ATC - Any Two Cards - Usually talking about going all in.
- BB - Big Blind
- C - Bet - Continuation Bet - Bluff after the flop that follows a pre flop raise
- Cc - Check Check
- c/c - Check call any bet
- CO - Cut Off - Position to the right of the dealer
- EV - Expected value - The calculated long term profitability of a particular move
- FE - Fold Equity - The equity that comes with making another player fold a hand
- FWIW - For What It’s Worth - Usually to finish off a sentence about one’s personal opinion on a play.
- GG - Good game
- HJ - High Jack - To the right of the cutoff
- HU - Heads Up
- IMO - In My Opinion - Common courtesy when providing one’s own opinion on how a hand should have been played out.
- ITM - In the money
- LAG - Loose aggressive player
- MTT - Multi Table Tournament - Tournament with more than one table
- NH - Nice Hand
- OOP - Out of Position - To play a hand from early position against another player.
- PLO8 - Pot Limit Omaha Hi/Lo
- ROI - Return On Investment
- SNG - Sit N Go Tournament
- SS - Short Stack
- TAG - Tight Aggressive Player
- TPBK - Top Pair Best Kicker
- TPGK - Top Pair Good Kicker
- TPWK - Top Pair Weak Kicker
- UTG - Under The Gun - Player to the left of the big blind
- VB - Value Bet - A bet designed to represent a small bet that is asking for a call off a big hand.
