Are you alright?

luckylucky

A few years ago it was at a point where I had been in Manchester just a few months, when one evening my wife's colleague rung up our house(no it's not what you're thinking ), I answer the phone and the first thing he says is Are you alright!

I'm kinda a bit taken aback, as Are you alright to me means have you got a fcukin problem. But since i never met the fella I didn't think this is what he meant, so I just mumbled back something like yeah fine thanks, still unsure I asked my wife after was he being funny with me or something, she said no it's just the manchester way of saying hi.

So what the fook does this have to do with poker?

It's about understanding the different poker lingos. Where a lot of people make mistakes and I don't exclude myself here (not fully anyway) is they have a predeliction to thinking that other peoples poker actions means the same thing as it would do if they were betting that way.

Also we need to not just get to know the other players poker lingos, but we need to be able to implement them at times too.

One recent case fom my own play. I was playing on ipoker, and i got kk and plan to raise about pot size but coz of ipoker opening another table, i end up almost out of time and i just managed to get in a min raise before the clock runs out. Everyone folds except the BB who is a decent enough player that I have played against for a few hundred hands already. He calls my bet, he ends up calling me down all the way with top pair, and my KK holds up. I said to him after I didn't mean to min-raise and he says yeah he could never have put me on KK, this guy had seen enough of me to know my poker lingo and got to lose more chips than he normally would because I accidentaly was playing like someone else. Not that I advocate min-raising with KK or anything else as a rule.

Anyway just wanted to touch on the subtle languages of poker

NickyOD

Just for fun on a new site or on tables where no one knows you try this.

Limp in with suited connectors or suited gap connectors.Then when someone raises behind you and its folded back to you, make a minimum reraise. You will almost certainly be put on AA. Now do this every hand and you will never lose.