OKVIP, the dramatic intellectual game, is famous for its 52-card deck and a distinct language world. To help you win in this arena, explore some of the easy-to-understand and interesting poker terms below.
1. Position In The OKVIP Table:
In the poker table, the player’s position plays an important role in decision making and poker strategy. In the poker table there are the following positions:
A. Early Position (EP): including Small Blind, Big Blind, 2 seats to the left of UTG’s big blind spot, UTG+1.
- Small Blind (SB): in the first position from the left of the Dealer, a certain amount is required at the start of the pre-flop betting round.
- Big Blind (BB): in second place from the left side of the Dealer, which requires the player to pay a mandatory amount before the pre-flop betting round starts, the, usually 2 times Small Blind.
- Under the Gun (UTG): the first person to act and the next player to the big blind left hand.
- Under the Gun (UTG+1): position after UTG
B. Middle (MP): position for players in the middle of the table. MP and MP+1 included
- Middle Position (MP): next to UTG+1 position
- Middle Position (MP+1): next to MP positon
C. Late Position (LP): The closest seat to the right of the BTN is called the end position. Including HJ,Cut Off/CO.
- HJ (Hi-jack): sit behind MP+1 and before Cut off.
- Cut off/CO: players in the right position Button/Dealer. At the end of the table and the person sitting here will act at the latest in a betting round.
- Dealer/ Button/BTN: the person holding the dealer sits in the split position and has the most advantage in the game of OKVIP. They will make the last stroke of the betting round.
2. OKVIP Gameplay Terminology
You also need to grasp the poker terms of gameplay to apply a variety of strategies flexibly to your bets. This helps us gain more advantages and win more easily:
- Tight: how to play firmly, carefully consider and do not show the card even when owning strong cards.
- Loose: play style, less calculation, selective.
- Aggression: active, aggressive gameplay, like to push the bet up high to stimulate the opponent and win more priority in the game.
- Passive: playing OKVIP passively, inclined to follow the call and check more.
- Tight Aggressive (TAG): a more aggressive style of play but still more offensive.
- Loose Aggressive (LAG): the open play style of increasing or more bets.
- Roc/Nit: solid, cautious gameplay.
- Maniac: more aggressive than Aggressive, players can hold almost every card.
- Calling Station: follow the bet to the end even without the strong cards.
- Fish: weak skills, always passive in the game, often losing money and is the goal of other players.
- Shark: skilled players at high rankings, easy to win long-term money.
3. OKVIP Terminology About Cards
OKVIP is an intellectual game so even in the cards there is also a separate terminology to distinguish that you need to grasp as follows:
- Deck: poker deck.
- Burn/Burn Card: the top card before the Dealer proceeds to split and will be discarded.
- Community Cards: the common card is flipped between the table and all players in the game are visible.
- Hand: a combination of 5 cards.
- Hole Cards/Pocket Cards: cards dealt face-down to a player (also known as pocket cards). In Texas Hold’em, each player is dealt two hole cards, whereas, in Omaha, they are dealt four pocket cards.
- Made Hand: a combination of strong cards with a high probability of winning.
- Draw: card waiting, waiting to combine 1 more card to form a barrel or lobby.
- Monster draw: box wait post, lobby or both.
- Trash: junk cards with low scores, unlikely to win.
- Kicker: the extra card can decide the winner of the bet.
- Over-pair: the bleach has double higher than all the value of the common leaves on the table.
- Top pair: double made up of the player’s eraser with the highest card being on the table.
- Middle pair: double made up of the player’s eraser with the highest card in the middle at the Flop.
- Nuts – is the most powerful deck that cannot be lost by the common cards.
- Nut straight: Largest Hall.
- Nut flush: largest bucket (except for lobby breaker).
- Nut full-house: is the biggest tickle.
- 2nd nut: second strongest deck.
- Board – Is the general cards that are being opened on the table.
- Dry Board/Wet Board: Tables with little chance of improving the deck/table with plenty of chances to improve the deck.
- Rainbow: Means that the general cards on the table belong to different substances, there can be no crates. Rainbow is an example of a table with little chance of improving the deck.
- Play the board: where two common cards form the strongest deck without using their own cards.
- Two-tone: The table has two different postings.
4. How will the action in poker be explained?
The action from the opponents on the table is also reflected in detail by the term OKVIP:
- Flat call: follow the player bet before holding the card value strong enough to factor.
- Cold call: according to the previous opponent’s bet.
- Open: people open bets and actively put money in the Pot.
- Limp: calling when no player has raised before during the first betting round.
- 3-bet: players take extra after other opponents make bets and play.
- Steal: the player bets or punches to get the opponent in the Fold table.
- Muck: the act of playing cards carefully, not letting other opponents guess what tree they are holding at the end of the game.
- Bluff: scare, blind fire so that the opponent thinks he has a strong card and bet.
- Semi-bluff: still threatening but the player card is not too low, still have the opportunity to improve in the following rounds.
- Bet: bet before a new round when one of the opponents on the table is the bettor in the previous round.
- Barrel: put pressure on the opponent by bet consecutively at each betting round after the Flop.
5. The term tournament in poker
- Satellite tournament to win the main tournament.
- Final Table: the final table for the last remaining players in the game has not been eliminated.
- Add-On: buy more chips to give more advantage on the table with other players.
- Re-buy: buy more chips to continue with the tournament after having lost all.
- Freeroll: free tournaments with no rewards.
- Freezeout: the tournament does not allow players to buy more chips, if they lose all will be eliminated immediately.
- In The Money (ITM): players who are shortlisted for the tournament.
- Ante: a bet all players are required to make before the dealer deals the hand. Ante is used to create a seed pot, giving it value from the beginning of the game.
- Chip Leader: who holds the leading position in chip numbers.
- Bounty: be rewarded with a sum of money when other types of players succeed.
- Coin flip/Flip: coin tossing poker tournament, 50% win 50% lose.
6. Other OKVIP terms
In addition to the above popular concepts, there are many other interesting terms in the game as follows:
- Bankroll: the amount of money a player has in a OKVIP account.
- Bankroll management: managing capital when playing poker.
- Downswing: consecutive losses leading to a decrease in capital.
- Upswing: continuous victory makes the capital increase sharply.
- Full Ring: full-player OKVIP table (from 9 -10).
- Short-Handed: less-player OKVIP tables, only 6 or less.
- Heads Up: 2-player OKVIP table duel.
- Multiway pot: any pot which involves three or more players (as opposed to a heads-up pot) is a multiway pot.
- Showdown: the time when all players face up to determine the win and lose at the end of the game.
- Tilt: a sense of bitterness, loss of calm when losing the opportunity to win constantly.
- Rake: the house fee derived from the total bet in the poker games.
- Stack: stack poker chips on the table.
- Stake/Limit: bet level.
- Street: the betting round.
- Equity: the odds of winning in poker.
- Fold Equity: % Fold of the opponent in the game.
- Staking is the act of holding and locking a certain amount of coins to receive a reward
- Straddle: is an additional bet placed before the hand is dealt. The bet is equivalent to a minimum of double the big blind or BB. However, there are certain circumstances in which you can overcome the amount limit for a side bet.
- Sit and Go (SNG): in OKVIP is a popular form of tournament, especially in online environments. This is a short-term type of tournament, with no fixed duration and usually only lasts from a few minutes to an hour, depends on the number of players and the speed of the table played.
Sit and Go usually has a fixed number of players, usually between 2 and 180 depending on the variation. - Multi-Table Tournament (MTT): are indispensable tournaments at any online poker floor. These are multi-table tournaments, happyluke with a non-fixed attendance and pre-scheduled time.
- Bubble: In a tournament, Bubble is the place just before reaching the split in the tournament. Players are eliminated just before being awarded the so-called “bubbled”.
- Inside Straight Draw: another name of waiting lobby slot.
- Jackpot: as the famous name of the jackpot, you certainly also know this is the term used to refer to a huge prize that is accumulated over time.
- Pre-Flop: The starting round of the game will have 2 players must make a mandatory bet. Start counting words next to the dealer
- Flop: After the Pre-flop is over, we flip the first 3 cards.
- Turn: When the The-Flop round ends, continue to turn the 4th joint card.
- River: When the turn is over, continue to turn the 5th joint card.
- Showdown: After the river, if there are 2 or more people, people will proceed to turn (show) their own hold cards.
