Fist-pump shove/High-five shove
These expressions are basically interchangeable, and are typical of the sort of light-hearted shorthand you find on poker forums these days. Someone might post a question saying, ‘It folds to me on the button with effective stacks of 12 big blinds and I look down at A-Jo. Should I shove?’ If someone replies ‘fist-pump shove’ or ‘high-five shove’, they’re suggesting that you should be extremely happy to get all your chips in the middle here.
Donk lead/Donk bet
Let’s say you raise it up from the cutoff and get one caller in the shape of the big blind. If the big blind then bets into you on the flop, rather than checking to the preflop raiser, this is known as a ‘donk bet’ or ‘donk lead’. You’ll often see it written on forums like this: ‘I raised pre with A-K, the BB called and on a 10-7-3 rainbow he donked into me for half pot.’ It’s known as a donk lead because it’s usually a less than optimal move against good opponents. The donk leader will often lose value from opponents’ hands that have missed (whereas the preflop raiser would often c-bet if checked to) and will rarely be good if raised. Generally a donk bettor’s range will be polarised between super-strong hands like flopped sets and weak hands such as middle pair, no kicker. In some circles the term ‘donk bet’ can also refer to a tiny bet in relation to the pot.
Bumhunter
This term is most commonly heard in the context of heads-up poker. It refers to a player who’ll often sit at heads-up cash tables and wait for weak players to join, while refusing to play against good and/or regular players.
Clean/dirty outs
While working out pot odds based on the number of cards that will improve your hand, you can often separate your outs into two distinct piles – clean and dirty. Clean outs are cards that will definitely give you the winning hand, while dirty outs are cards that may or may not be outs, depending on your opponent’s holding. An obvious example of this is when you hold 9h-Th on a flop such as 7c-8s-2c. While a non-club Six is a clean out and gives you the nuts, cards such as 6c, 9c and Tc are dirty outs as they will improve your hand, but may potentially give your opponent a better hand.
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