Hand types & draws

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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, …

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…

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 …

Flush Draw

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

TPTK

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

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

What is Set-Mining in Poker?

Set Mining

Set-mining is calling a raise with a pocket pair to flop a set. A pair flops a set about 12% of the time; you usually n…

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…

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 …

Gutshot

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

Nutted Hand

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

Big Wrap

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

Flush Beats Full House

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

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…

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 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…

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…

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 …

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 …

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…

Rundown

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

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…

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…

Wrap

It is typically formed by the combination of the player's hand and the community cards, creating multiple consecutive s…

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…

Broadway Draw

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

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…

Nut Wrap

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

Boat on Board

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

Non-Nut Flush Draw

Term: Non-Nut Flush Draw A non-nut flush draw refers to a situation where a player is drawing to a flush that is not th…

Second Nut Low

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

Inside Straight Draw

In practice, the probability of completing an inside straight draw is relatively low—typically about 16% equity by the …

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…

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…

Vulnerable Overpair

Term: Vulnerable Overpair A vulnerable overpair refers to a situation on the flop or turn where a player holds a pair h…

Implied Set Mining

g., 22-77 with the primary goal of flopping a set and then using hidden hand strength to win a large stack from an oppo…

Omaha Nut Wrap

In Pot-Limit Omaha, a nut wrap is a hand that holds multiple straight draws to the nuts, typically with 13 or more outs…

PLO 13-Out Wrap

A 13-out wrap in Pot-Limit Omaha is a straight draw that uses three or four hole cards to give 13 different cards on th…

PLO Boat on Board

In Pot-Limit Omaha, 'boat on board' refers to a community board that itself forms a full house three of a kind and a pa…

Omaha Nut Low

In Omaha Hi-Lo, the nut low is the best possible low hand given the board, using two hole cards and three community car…

Omaha Nut High

In Omaha poker, the nut high is the best possible high hand that can be made using exactly two hole cards and three com…