Betting Strategy Orbit
From an opening raise to a river bluff, learn how players describe the sequence of bets and what each action can represent.
Three useful connections.
Bet Sizing
The amount selected for a bet or raise relative to the pot and stacks. Size changes opponents' calling price and the shape of later streets.
Read the definition ↗INTERMEDIATEBlock Bet
A relatively small bet used to set a price or seek thin value. Its purpose and soundness depend on ranges; opponents may still raise.
Read the definition ↗BEGINNERBluff
A bet or raise intended to make better hands fold. A bluff can fail even when the decision was reasonable against a range.
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Bet Sizing
The amount selected for a bet or raise relative to the pot and stacks.
Open definition ↗Betting Strategy OrbitintermediateBlock Bet
A relatively small bet used to set a price or seek thin value.
Open definition ↗Betting Strategy OrbitbeginnerBluff
A bet or raise intended to make better hands fold.
Open definition ↗Betting Strategy OrbitintermediateBluff Catcher
A hand that usually loses to value bets but beats bluffs.
Open definition ↗Betting Strategy OrbitintermediateBring-In
A forced opening wager on the first betting street of a stud game.
Open definition ↗Betting Strategy OrbitintermediateCheck-Back
Checking when action reaches you after others have checked.
Open definition ↗Betting Strategy OrbitintermediateCheck-Raise
Checking and then raising an opponent's bet on the same street.
Open definition ↗Betting Strategy OrbitintermediateCold Call
Calling a raise without having previously invested voluntarily in that betting round.
Open definition ↗Betting Strategy OrbitintermediateContinuation Bet
A postflop bet by the aggressor from the prior street, commonly the preflop raiser.
Open definition ↗Betting Strategy OrbitintermediateDelayed Continuation Bet
A continuation bet postponed after checking an earlier street.
Open definition ↗Betting Strategy OrbitintermediateDonk Bet
A bet into the player who held the betting initiative on the previous street.
Open definition ↗Betting Strategy OrbitintermediateDouble Barrel
Betting on two consecutive postflop streets as the aggressor.
Open definition ↗Betting Strategy OrbitadvancedFive-Bet
A raise over a four-bet.
Open definition ↗Betting Strategy OrbitbeginnerFlat Call
Calling instead of raising when a raise is an available option.
Open definition ↗Betting Strategy OrbitintermediateFloating
Calling a bet with a plan to contest the pot on a later street.
Open definition ↗Betting Strategy OrbitintermediateFour-Bet
A re-raise after a three-bet.
Open definition ↗Betting Strategy OrbitintermediateHero Call
A difficult call with a relatively weak hand based on a bluff read.
Open definition ↗Betting Strategy OrbitintermediateHero Fold
Folding a strong hand because an opponent appears even stronger.
Open definition ↗Betting Strategy OrbitintermediateIsolation Raise
A raise over a limper intended to play against fewer opponents.
Open definition ↗Betting Strategy OrbitintermediateJam
An informal word for moving all-in.
Open definition ↗Betting Strategy OrbitbeginnerLimp
Entering a preflop pot by calling the big blind rather than raising.
Open definition ↗Betting Strategy OrbitbeginnerMin-Raise
The smallest legal raise under the betting rules.
Open definition ↗Betting Strategy OrbitbeginnerOpen Raise
The first voluntary raise before the flop when no one has entered by calling.
Open definition ↗Betting Strategy OrbitintermediateOverbet
A bet larger than the pot before the bet.
Open definition ↗Betting Strategy OrbitintermediateProbe Bet
A bet made when the prior street's aggressor declines to bet and action later returns to another player.
Open definition ↗Betting Strategy OrbitintermediatePure Bluff
A bluff with little or no chance to improve if called.
Open definition ↗Betting Strategy OrbitintermediateSemi-Bluff
A bet or raise with a hand that is not currently strong but can improve if called.
Open definition ↗Betting Strategy OrbitintermediateSnap Call
An immediate call made with little visible delay.
Open definition ↗Betting Strategy OrbitintermediateSqueeze Play
A re-raise after an open raise and at least one call.
Open definition ↗Betting Strategy OrbitadvancedThin Value
A value bet expected to be called by only a narrow set of worse hands.
Open definition ↗Betting Strategy OrbitintermediateThree-Bet
The first re-raise in a betting sequence, most often preflop.
Open definition ↗Betting Strategy OrbitadvancedTriple Barrel
Betting all three postflop streets as the aggressor.
Open definition ↗Betting Strategy OrbitbeginnerValue Bet
A bet made because worse hands are expected to call often enough.
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