Poker Strategy: Abbreviations.

Sky_Dave

Are you sat there wondering what on Earth 'OOP' or '3b' means? Haven't got the faintest when someone tells you to that king is a good 'barrel card'? Does being 'floated' sound like a bathroom horror? Then this is the thread for you. Here's a list of expressions used in poker forums when talking about strategy. Commit to memory and become a much better player as a result! *

(* - not entirely accurate, but they are worth knowing...) 

POKER STRATEGY: ABBREVIATIONS

3-bet/3b When you make a second raise or re-raise. The blinds are considered the first bet, the raise is the second bet, and the re-raise would be the third bet, or 3-bet.

4b four bet. Like above but re-raised again.

6m 6-max

AI all in

AIPF all-in pre flop

ATC any two cards

Ax an Ace with any second card

B&M Bricks & Mortar: playing at a poker club or casino as opposed to online

Barrel To bet an additional street after betting the previous one

bb big blind

BB Big Bet

BB/100 Big Bets per 100 hands (standard measure of win rate)

b/c bet and call a raise

b/f bet and fold to a raise

BI Buy-in. Also 'Bring In' in stud games.

BR Bank Roll

 

c-bet Continuation bet

cc check check

c/c check and call any bet

c/f check and fold to a raise

CK Check

CO Cut Off - position immediately to the right of the dealer

c/r check raise

EP Early Position

EV Expected Value 

-EV Negative Expected Value

+EV Positive Expected Value

 

FE Fold Equity

FH Full House

FPS Fancy Play Syndrome (someone who is prone to playing just a little too cute...)

FT Final Table

FTW For the win (internet kid speak or something, I dunno...)

HE Hold'em

HH Hand History

HJ Hijack position - two to the right of the dealer.

HU Heads Up

HUD Heads Up Display

ICM Independent Chip Model

IIRC If I Remember Correctly

ISD Inside Straight Draw - same as a gutshot straight draw.

ITM In The Money

 

LAG Loose aggressive (player)

LAP Loose passive (player)

LDO Used to be 'like duh, obviously'. Now more 'like Durrrr, obviously'.

LHE Limit Hold 'Em

LP Late Position

MHIG My Hand Is Good

MHING My Hand Is No Good

MP Mid Position

MTT Multi Table Tournament

 

NH Nice Hand

NL No Limit

o offsuited - K7o would be a King & 7 of different suits

O8 Omaha Hi-Lo

OESD Open Ended Straight Draw

OESFD Open Ended Straight Flush Draw

OOP Out of position

OOTM Out Of The Money

OPP/opp Opponent

OP Original Poster

PF Pre Flop

PFR Pre Flop Raiser

PL Pot Limit

PLO Pot Limit Omaha

PLO8 Pot Limit Omaha Hi-Lo

PP Pocket Pair

PSB Pot Sized Bet

PSR Pot Sized Raise

PTL Player To My Left

PTR Player To My Right

 

r rainbow flop, for example A87r would be A-8-7 flop with no flush draws possible.

r Rebuy, for example £3r would an £3 tournament with rebuys available

ROI return on investment

 

s Suited - K7s would be a King & 7 of the same suit

sc suited connector

SB Small Blind or Small Bet depending on how it is used in sentence (Small Bet is used in limit hold'em).

SD Standard Deviation

SH Shorthanded

SNG Sit 'n' Go tournament

SS Short Stack

STT Single table tournament

TAG Tight aggressive player

TPBK Top Pair Best Kicker

TPGK Top Pair Good Kicker

TPNK Top Pair No Kicker

TPWK Top Pair Weak Kicker

UTG Under the gun - first position, to the left of the big blind

UTG+1 To the left of UTG

VB Value Bet

VPIP% Voluntarily Put(money) In Pot

WA/WB Way Ahead/Way Behind

Hale72

Thanks, some of Ladyfingrs quotes can be a little difficult to read sometimes,

I eventually get the drift but I don't think he realises sometimes that we are not all pro's.

This was one of his that I still don't fully understand.

26:16 = 1.68:1

So we need roughly 41.8% to call I think

idk I dont have stove on this PC, but if someone runs an OESD + 1 over against a reasonable range I doubt he'd have that.

Can someone translate?

Sky_Dave

Basically he's figuring out the odds. 26 in the pot, 16 to call (be that jelly babies, pound sterling or thousand chips), so the maths says you're being offered 1.68 for 1. When you turn that into a percentage required to make the play profitable, you have to be about 42%. If you're being offered more then it's profitable and if it's less, it's not.

OESD + 1 over would be open ended straight draw plus one overcard to the assumed pair.

Hope that helps!

Sky_Dave

Oh, and to answer Ladyfinger's question, an OESD+1 over when the opponent has one pair and none of our outs in his hand (so KJ v Q7 on a QT5 flop, for instance) makes the KJ 42.1%. If you ever want to do the maths on poker hands, PokerStove is a handy bit of (free) software to play around with.

ACESOVER8s

Wow Dave................. you have too much time on your hands lol

Very informative though there were some in there i didn't know

Hale72

got those bits, its this


idk I dont have stove on this PC,

that i didnt get

unknown_username

idk = i dont know

stove is a program called Pokerstove, it calculates your equity in the hand based on your supposed villain's range of hands (what you put him on) and all the possible combinations of community cards, so u can work out your chances of winning the hand at every street (pre, flop, turn, river).

Sky_Dave

PC is erm, a PC

HartshorN

Is Poker Stove a good program to use?

Also thanks for the abbreviations rich.

unknown_username

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Is Poker Stove a good program to use? Also thanks for the abbreviations rich.
Posted by HartshorN

It's pretty handy. It's free to download so get it and have a play if u get a spare 20minutes, or whilst you're at the tables also its good to have when you're card dead.

phil12uk

Dave m8 school boy error..............

You could have posted those abbreviations over numerous posts and got ur entry into the posters freeroll sewn up for next week then lol

unknown_username

In my opinion threads like this should  be hand picked and given entry into things such as the posters freeroll. Its a positive contribution to the community reducing confusion when people like me who have been reading too much of the 2p2 forums start talking jibberish!

Sky_Dave

Deadluck,

Thanks for the compliment! If there's anything else you guys want to see up on the forums like this do let me know and I'll do my best.

Cheers,

Dave - prone to jibberish, trust me!

labrat64

Thanks dave, maybe now i can start to understand what some of these guys are talking about.

DAVEYZZ

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Wow Dave................. you have too much time on your hands lol Very informative though there were some in there i didn't know
Posted by ACESOVER8s

i totally agree with you acesrover,but has anyone ever wondered why abbreviation is such a long word??

Dudeskin8

thanks, very interseting

JingleMa

Great post Dave - advanced poker text is completely it's own language and requires a LOT of translation - this has been a great help to me and many others I'm sure.

apollo_11

I did wonder what some of the abv were, at least I know what they mean now.

Wilhelm

AK    Anna Kournikova

Looks pretty but never wins

repton3

Wow you learn something every day, I really thought 3bet meant a bet of 3x the previous one. /thicko.



Oh and you've missed my favourite poker term, NIT.

LadyFingrs

BI is Buy-in not Bring in (bring in being what the player with the lowest door card (highest in razz (f razz)) does on 3rd street in stud games).

scrumdown

  nice  stuff   keep  it  up

oynutter

you've missed   www.-----  2-J off

DOHHHHHHH

FTW - ??? ne1?

Sky_Dave

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BI is Buy-in not Bring in (bring in being what the player with the lowest door card (highest in razz (f razz)) does on 3rd street in stud games).
Posted by LadyFingrs

Good spot - had an old school moment there. Opening post amended accordingly

Tikay10

FML?

(On second thouights, best not answer that....)

Sky_Dave

FTW - For the win.

DOHHHHHHH

aha! cheerz bud

Talon

 I think that you have missed an inportant one.

HCYCTYN- How Can You Call That You Numpty

Sky_Dave

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FML? (On second thouights, best not answer that....)
Posted by Tikay10

Lisa Marie's sister, Fiona?

ACESOVER8s

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In Response to Re: Poker Strategy: Abbreviations. : i totally agree with you acesrover,but has anyone ever wondered why abbreviation is such a long word??
Posted by DAVEYZZ

LOL never thought about that, there are lots of odd things like this in the world - Just look at the word Phonetic, this represents spelling something how it sounds? but it's spelt with a PH instead of a F !!!!

Laws are also odd, 18 to rent a dirty movie, 16 to do the acts that are in the dirty movie lol