Sometimes my poker articles start with an idea, then comes some text, and somewhere along the way a title shows up. Other times I start with a title that I really like and then I come up with something to put underneath it. This post is about one of those. Here’s a title I came up with that has been waiting for an article:
He Beat Me With a Club
And now I’ve decided what the article will be about. It’ll be a lingo article. I do one of those every few years or so. This one will be about new words that have shown up in the poker lexicon since the 2003 poker explosion. Right now I’m collecting them. If you can think of some, please send them to me! You can either leave a reply here at my blog, or in this thread at DeucesCracked, or send me an email at tommy@tommyangelo.com. Thanks!
I have a list started already. Here are a few words from it:
Donkaments — I don’t know what this word means but I’ve heard it a lot.
Float — a type of call at no-limit.
Stack — It’s new usage is as a verb, meaning to win the other guy’s stack (or lose your own) at no-limit or pot-limit. (ex: I love to stack that guy.)
Felt — as a verb, means the same as Stack.
I’m looking forward to having some fun putting this article together. Here’s a replay from an old article of mine of a passage that was the most fun I’ve ever had writing anything. It’s from “Broken Down English.”
Play along with me here, and try to imagine you are a regular person. Pretend you have no idea what words like “fold” and “diamonds” mean to a poker player. Then one day you overhear this story being told:
“Some guy limped in with rags, suited up. I woke up with two cowboys, so I popped him. I’d been beating him up all night. He was stuck like a pig and tilting bad. So he came back at me. I put the cap on, of course. I hit my hand hard when a king flopped along with two clubs. Then I picked up a house on fourth street. And if that wasn’t good enough, he flushed up on the river and started pounding me!”
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Donkaments: a tournament full of donks
Donk: a bad player
Hahahaha. Love the Broken Down English excerpt. Teddy “The Iceman” Monroe detailed a term called “flatbarreling” in his recent 2+2 podcast, but it sounded dumb and I’ve since removed it from my memory. Anyway, here are some terms…
Delayed Float – floating the flop, then waiting until the river to fire
Pushenomics – coined by my friend, referring to SNG strategy (not widely used so may be disqualified)
Hijack – the seat before the cutoff.
Using “three-bet” to mean re-raise in NL (Ewww….).
I’m sure I’ll think of 15 more once I post this.
FLOAT
a float is a delayed bluff, that might require calling one or two bets, that relies on the image of portryoing strength by calling a preflop-bet and most of the time a flop bet.
simple example of “floating the flop”:
preflop: A raises, B calls
flop: A bets, b calls
turn: A checks, B bets, A folds.
the same can be applied on the turn.
“I have a list started already. Here are a few words from it:
Donkaments — I don’t know what this word means but I’ve heard it a lot.
Float — a type of call at no-limit.
Stack — It’s new usage is as a verb, meaning to win the other guy’s stack (or lose your own) at no-limit or pot-limit. (ex: I love to stack that guy.)
Felt — as a verb, means the same as Stack.”
I don’t think we need to include any of the ones Tommy has already posted.
redonkulous– a ridiculous play make by a donk.
donktastic — a favorable situation which is favorable in large part due to the large number of donks involved in the situation
donk bet, or donked into, or donk lead — betting (leading out) out of position when you check/called the previous street
squeeze play — usually preflop, re-reaising after an original raise has been called by somebody (and you are not the original raiser or caller)
lagtard, or aggro tard — a loose agressive player who is a retard.
nit — see previous decades’ definition of “rock”
Thanks to all who have left words about words here and in my email box! — Tommy
Another one not yet on this list is “tagfish”, the cousin of the “lagtard”.
pushmonkey = shortstacker
While The Ice Man’s “flat-barrel” definition is useless, the term “barrel” is relevant (double meaning, etc.) and could find its way into your article.
rigtard – retard who thinks online poker is rigged
Great blog man. Check mine if you want, let me know what you think of it.