What is Short Stack in Poker?
A short stack is any player that has less than the usual amount of chips for a certain game. As an example, in cash games, many players rebuy if their stack falls short of 100bb. As such, any cash game player with a stack less than 100bb may be referred to as a short stacker. Professional short stackers are players who deliberately buy in with a smaller than average stack in order to exploit the fact that they have explicitly studied short stack strategy.
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What is Semi-bluff in Poker?
A semi bluff is a bluff made with a hand that has potential to improve to a strong hand. The most obvious examples are bluffs made while holding flush draws, open-ended straight draws and gutshots. Semi bluffs are always more profitable than pure bluffs, because we essentially have two chances to win the pot. Either our opponent folds, or he calls and we make our strong made hand.
What is Scare card in Poker?
A scare card is card that potentially makes our opponent less comfortable about his situation (and hence more likely to make the fold when facing aggression from us). The term originated with Stud games where we are dealt an Upcard that is of high rank and/or co-ordinates with the rest of our board. It’s often used by Hold’em players describe a turn or river card which has higher rank than any other card on the board, although the concept of scare cards typically fits better to Stud games than Hold’em.
