Hand types & draws

66 terms

Top Pair

Top Pair Top Pair refers to a hand where one of your hole cards pairs with the highest card on the board. In practice, …

Flush Draw

In practice, a flush draw is an aggressive and valuable type of draw because it has approximately a 35% chance to compl…

Kicker

Kicker 踢脚 A kicker is a side card used to determine the winner when two players have the same hand ranking in Texas Hol…

Set

In practice, a set is a strong, well‑hidden hand because opponents cannot easily deduce your hand strength from the boa…

Draw

Draw A draw refers to a situation where a player's current hand has not yet made a made hand but has the potential to i…

55

55 refers to a pocket pair of fives in poker, specifically in Texas Hold'em, representing a medium-strength starting ha…

Overpair

Overpair An overpair refers to a situation where a player's hole cards are a pocket pair, and the rank of that pair is …

Two Pair

g., A-A and K-K. It is a medium-strength made hand. In practice, Two Pair typically beats One Pair or High Card, but it…

66

In Texas Hold'em, '66' refers to a pocket pair of sixes, a medium-strength starting hand often used for set mining.

TPTK

In practice, TPTK represents a strong hand on the flop, usually ahead of most draws and weak pairs, but one must be cau…

Full House

In Texas Hold'em, it ranks fourth, behind only a straight flush and four of a kind. In practice, Full House is an extre…

Pocket Pair

Its primary use is as a high-value starting hand, as it already forms a pair preflop with potential to improve to three…

Backdoor Draw

A backdoor draw also known as a runner-runner draw is a poker hand that requires two specific cards on the turn and riv…

Backdoor Flush Draw

In practice, the value of a backdoor flush draw lies in its ability to increase the hand's potential equity. It can ser…

Open-Ended Straight Draw

In practice, this draw typically has 8 outs (e.g., holding 89 on a flop of 6710 means 5 and J both complete the straigh…

Gutshot

Term: Gutshot A Gutshot also known as an inside straight draw occurs when a player's hand combined with the community c…

Big Wrap

In Omaha poker, a big wrap refers to a hand with a large number of outs, typically involving multiple straight draws, f…

Nutted Hand

Nutted Hand A Nutted Hand refers to the absolute strongest possible hand a player can hold given a specific board textu…

Flush Beats Full House

The practical significance of this term is that players must remember the hand ranking order when evaluating hand stren…

Trips

For example, if you hold A9 and the board shows A, A, K, you have trips of Aces. Unlike a Set, where the third card of …

PLO Nut High

In Pot-Limit Omaha PLO, the nut high refers to the best possible high hand that can be made using exactly two hole card…

King-King Pair

In poker, a King-King Pair also called Pocket Kings refers to a starting hand consisting of two Kings in Texas Hold'em …

Second Nut

The second-best possible hand in a given poker situation, inferior only to the nut hand.

TPGK

In practice, TPGK is a strong made hand that usually beats most top pairs or middle pairs, but one must be wary of oppo…

Nut Flush Draw

Nut Flush Draw A nut flush draw refers to a flush draw that, if completed, becomes the nut flush the highest possible f…

PLO Wrap

In Pot-Limit Omaha, a wrap is a straight draw with more than eight outs, often 13, 17, or 20, resulting from holding mu…

Trips on Board

A situation in community card poker where three cards of the same rank appear on the board, creating a pair on board th…

17-Out Wrap

In Omaha poker, a 17-out wrap is a straight draw that has 17 possible cards to complete a straight, making it a powerfu…

Omaha 17-Out Wrap

In Omaha, a 17-out wrap is a straight draw that offers exactly 17 cards outs to complete a straight, typically arising …

Set Mining

g., 22 to 77 and calls a raise to enter the flop, hoping to hit a three of a kind set on the flop to win a large pot. T…

Set Over Set

A poker situation where one player holds a set three of a kind from a pocket pair and another player also holds a set o…

Nut High

In poker, particularly in high-low split games, the nut high is the best possible high hand that can be made given the …

Boat on Board

A poker situation where the five community cards themselves form a full house a 'boat', meaning every remaining player …

Omaha Boat on Board

A situation in Omaha where the community cards themselves contain a full house three of a kind and a pair, creating a u…

Second Nut Low

In split-pot games like Omaha Hi-Lo, the second-best possible low hand given the board cards.

Nut Wrap

A situation in Omaha where a player holds multiple nut draws simultaneously, typically a nut straight draw or nut flush…

Pocket Deuces

Pocket Deuces refers to a starting hand in Texas Hold'em where both hole cards are a pair of twos, also known as a pair…

Rundown

In practice, this hand type possesses extremely strong potential due to its high density of draws, especially in multi-…

Nut Advantage

Nut Advantage refers to the situation where one player's range contains a higher proportion of the best possible hand t…

Quads

Term: Quads Quads is a poker hand consisting of four cards of the same rank, second only to a straight flush in Texas H…

Wheel Draw

A hand that contains four of the five cards needed to form a wheel A-2-3-4-5 straight, giving the player a chance to co…

Boat

Term: Boat Full House Boat is a five-card hand in Texas Hold'em consisting of three of a kind plus a pair, commonly kno…

Nuts

Term: Nuts The nuts refers to the strongest possible hand given the current board structure—a hand that is absolutely a…

PLO Nut Low

In Pot-Limit Omaha Hi-Lo, the best possible low hand given the board, using exactly two hole cards and three community …

PLO Nut Wrap

In Pot-Limit Omaha, a hand that currently holds the nuts on the flop but also has numerous outs to improve to even stro…

Nut Heavy Line

A betting pattern or strategy where a player’s range is heavily weighted toward nut hands the best possible hand on a g…

Broadway Draw

A drawing hand that has the potential to make the highest possible straight in poker, Ace-high A-K-Q-J-10.

Quads Over Full House

A situation in poker where one player holds four of a kind quads and another holds a full house, with the quads winning…