Poker, a big family of games that are played with packs of cards has many exciting variants and new games are now become a favorite past time worldwide. With new variations of game coming up every day, poker games are acquiring new terms and definitions. A poker player should be aware of most of these terms to understand the game better and for convenient playing. Most websites on domino online offers these explanations on their pages to help the new users.

Basic Terms In Poker

One of the basic terms in poker game is action, where a player turns a hand to act and it can be either a bet or rise depending on game. When it comes to bet, there is ante, a small preliminary bet made by player before dealing of cards and this contributes to the pot value. A call is made to contribute a minimum amount of money to pot in order to continue playing a hand in the game. Location of player in poker has defined terms such as button, that describes position of dealer or blind, where player sits immediately after dealer or one position farthest left. Cut-off is the position on the immediate right to the button or simply the dealer.

Special Cards Of Poker

There are designated values for card combinations and several special cards. Flush is when you end up with five cards of same suit, four of a kind when you have four cards of same rank and full house when there is three of a kind and another pair. The best ever possible hand in a poker game is royal flush with ace-high straight flush.  When a player feels that their hand is too weak and want to give up, they fold, by placing cards on hand face down. By folding they lose whatever they have bet in the game till that point. Game structure can be changed to either limit, when bet or raise is limited to a certain amount or no-limit, when players are eligible to bet complete stake or pot-limit, when bets are limited to current value of the pot.

Poker Chips Or Money Terms

In terms of money buy-in is the minimal amount of chips a player has to earn or buy to take part in a game of poker. In cash poker games, buy-ins is usually called minimums that can be limited or unlimited. The player can buy the pot through bluff or semi bluff that forces other players out of the game. Though there are many other terms involved, these basic terms can help a new player understand and enjoy the game.