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HJ 200bb Steal

A preflop raise from the Hijack HJ position when effective stacks are 200 big blinds deep, aiming to steal the blinds a…

Preflop Flat Call on Dry Board

A scenario where a player flat calls a preflop raise and the subsequent flop is a dry board with no draws or few drawin…

River 3-Bet on Paired Board

A raise on the river (the third bet in a betting sequence, typically after a bet and a raise) on a board that contains …

River 5-Bet on Dry Board

A rare betting sequence on the river where a player makes a fifth bet re-raise after a 4-bet on a board with few potent…

River Steal on Wet Board

A bluff bet on the river made on a coordinated board with multiple possible draws, aiming to force an opponent to fold …

SB 20bb Resteal

In poker, particularly tournaments, a play where the small blind SB with about 20 big blinds bb re-raises often all-in …

SB Flop Squeeze Pot

A situation on the flop where the player in the small blind makes a raise squeeze after an initial bet and one or more …

SB Preflop Cold Call Static

A fixed, non-adjusting range of hands that the small blind uses to call a preflop raise from another player, typically …

BB 40bb Resteal

A resteal from the big blind with a stack of 40 big blinds, typically against a late position open raise.

BB River 4-Bet Dynamic

BB River Flat Call Wet

A poker play where the player in the Big Blind position calls a river bet without raising on a board that contains many…

BTN River Cold Call Paired

A for a Button player calling a bet or raise on the river without having previously invested in the pot on that street,…

CO 40bb Steal

A preflop raise from the cutoff position with a stack of 40 big blinds, aimed at winning the blinds and antes without o…

CO 75bb 3-Bet Jam

A preflop all-in re-raise 3-bet from the cutoff position with an effective stack of 75 big blinds.

Cold Call from CO

In poker, a cold call from the cutoff CO refers to calling a raise made by an earlier player while sitting in the cutof…

Fold to Steal from BTN

A poker HUD statistic that shows the percentage of times a player folds their big blind when facing a raise from the bu…

HJ River 3-Bet Static

A fixed, non-adapting strategy in which a player in the Hijack position uses a predetermined range to three-bet on the …

HJ River 4-Bet Monotone

A rare poker scenario where the player in the Hijack position makes a fourth raise 4-bet on a river board where all car…

Preflop Double Barrel on Dynamic Board

A strategy where a player raises preflop and then continues betting on both the flop and turn double barrel specificall…

River Isolation Raise on Monotone Board

A raise on the river, when the board contains three or more cards of the same suit, intended to isolate one opponent by…

SB 50bb 3-Bet Jam

A preflop action in no-limit hold'em where the small blind, holding a stack of 50 big blinds, reraises all-in after an …

SB Preflop Flat Call Wet

A preflop strategy where the small blind calls a raise with hands that are designed to play well on wet coordinated, co…

BB Limped Pot Preflop Strategy

In a pot where no player has raised and the action folds to the big blind, the strategy for the big blind to decide whe…

BB Preflop Cold Call Rainbow

In poker, the action of calling a preflop raise from the big blind with a hand that has cards of different suits i.e., …

BB River 4-Bet Pot

A situation in no-limit hold'em where the player in the big blind faces a decision on the river in a pot that was 4-bet…

BB River Steal Dry

A bluff on the river executed by the player in the big blind position when the board is dry lacking draws or coordinati…

Flop 5-Bet on Monotone Board

An extremely aggressive action on the flop where all three community cards are of the same suit, representing a fifth r…

HJ River 4-Bet Paired

A rare poker scenario where a player in the hijack position makes a fourth raise a 4-bet on the river and the board con…

Preflop Triple Barrel on Dynamic Board

A betting pattern where a player makes a preflop raise or 3-bet and then continuation bets on the flop, turn, and river…

SB 100bb Resteal

A preflop strategy where the small blind, with a deeper stack of 100 big blinds, three-bets a late-position raise to ex…

SB Preflop Bet-Fold Monotone

A poker strategy where the small blind raises preflop and then makes a continuation bet on a monotone flop all cards of…

SB Preflop Flat Call Dynamic

The strategic situation and implications when the player in the Small Blind position chooses to call rather than raise …

SB River 5-Bet Rainbow

A rare poker scenario where the player in the small blind makes a fifth raise 5-bet on the river on a board with all ca…

Middle Position Isolation Raise Line

A betting line in which a player in middle position raises preflop to isolate one or more limpers, aiming to play a hea…

Cold Call from BB

A cold call from the big blind occurs when the big blind calls a raise without having previously put any money into the…

HJ Preflop Isolation Raise Static

A fixed raise size e.g., 3-4 big blinds used from the hijack position to isolate a limper or weak player, without adjus…

River Squeeze on Paired Board

A large raise on the river when the board contains a pair, typically designed to represent a full house or quads and fo…

SB Preflop Iso Pot

A pot created preflop when the Small Blind SB makes an isolation raise to target a single opponent, usually a limper, h…

SB River Steal Static

In poker, the SB River Steal Static refers to a GTO-inspired fixed betting range used by the small blind on the river w…

BB Iso Pot Preflop Strategy

A preflop strategy where the big blind raises against one or more limpers to create a heads-up pot out of position.

BB Preflop Isolation Raise Dry

A raise from the big blind before the flop intended to isolate one or more limpers when the pot contains no additional …

CO Preflop Isolation Raise Static

A preflop strategy where a player in the cutoff position raises a fixed, unchanging range of hands to isolate limpers, …

Preflop Check-Fold on Dynamic Board

A rare strategy where the big blind checks preflop after no raise, intending to fold to any bet on a dynamic flop that …

River 4-Bet on Rainbow Board

A fourth betting action third raise made on the river when no three community cards share the same suit.

River Isolation Raise on Static Board

A raise on the river in a multi-way pot on a board that has not changed in texture, intended to force out weaker hands …

BB Preflop Flat Call Paired

The scenario where the player in the Big Blind calls a preflop raise flat call and the flop contains a pair i.e., two c…

BB Preflop Isolation Raise Static

A strategy where the big blind uses a fixed raise size e.g., always raising to 3 or 4 big blinds to isolate a limper pr…

BB River 3-Bet Rainbow

A situation where the player in the Big Blind position makes a re-raise 3-bet on the river when the board cards are all…