Nice to see you again! Today I will define more terms that will matter as you strive to beat the games in casinos for USA players. I have to say that I am really liking this alphabetical theme a lot. If nothing else it prevents me from agonizing over the vast number of choices in the poker dictionary.

For the letter “I” let’s define ICM, which is an acronym for Independent Chip Model. If you play sit & gos on Tiger Gaming, it is mandatory that you know ICM. When there are less than 10 players remaining in a tourney, ICM gives your chips a cash value and helps you make optimal decisions.

The letter J does not have a lot of variety when it comes to poker terms, so let’s just quickly look at “jam”. If you get your hands on a helpful poker video and the instructor says he likes a jam, he is saying that he likes going all-in. ”Shove” and “push” both have the same meaning.

The next word I will mention is “kill”. If you decide to play live poker instead of Craps online one night, one of your options will probably be a kill game. When someone wins two pots in a row, they are required to pay an extra blind the next hand. A half kill requires just 1.5 times the big blind while a full kill is 2 times the big blind. Passive players that lose a lot of money on US poker sites are bound to prefer kill tables because they can stifle hyper-aggression.

When someone calls, raises, or bets “light”, they are doing it with a hand that is relatively weak. Pretend that you are playing on your Bwin Poker download and you receive 92 in the small blind. A player that opens frequently in late position pops it up on the button, and you make a 3-bet since you know he is usually raising a wide range here. He is likely raising light in his position, and you are 3-betting light in return. These spots are common on money poker sites.

Well that was my last term for this entry. In a few weeks I will get started again with the letter M. In the meantime, get some experience at the tables. Full Tilt is a good site if you want somewhere new to play. Full Tilt Poker是世界上最大的在线扑克平台之一，马上到我们的Full Tilt Poker下载页面，和世界各地的扑克高手在线切磋。

A few months ago I wrote about some important poker terms that you might want to know as you are striving to improve your game in US poker rooms. I am going to do the same thing for my next few articles. To entertain myself, I will go in alphabetical order and pick one word for each letter. Hopefully these next few entries help you out.

To start off, let’s go over the meaning of “ante”. This is a very important word for those that play a lot of tournaments on a PokerStars download. An ante is a bet that all players must make before they receive hands before the flop. The ante is usually around a tenth of the big blind, although it can be more or less depending on the game.

You will already know what a “bluff” is if you watch poker on TV. When you bet or raise in a way that causes your hand to look stronger than it actually is, you are bluffing. Doing this can make players fold hands that are better than yours. If you want to see a bluff in action, you probably just need to watch Daniels Room poker on PokerStars for a couple minutes since it is a key part of high stakes poker.

For the letter C, let’s look at “chip dumping”, something that your poker site should be looking out for if it is one of the top Texas Hold'em sites online. Chip dumping is defined as losing chips to someone else on purpose. People will do this to share chips in a tournament, for example, but the seriousness of the situation becomes apparent when you consider that chip dumping can also be used for money laundering. Now you know why the best US poker sites want their security team looking out for suspicious activity on the virtual felt.

When you are studying on free poker training sites, you might come across the term “dirty outs”. You have a situation of dirty outs when cards that improve your hand improve an opponent’s hand even more. For example, pretend you are grinding ring games to earn the bonus you got with your Titanpoker bonus code and flop a straight draw on a board with two hearts. If you make your straight when a third heart comes out, this out could be dirty because someone that had a flush draw has a hand that beats your new straight.

That is it for today, but I will be back sometime in October. Before the next time we meet, be sure to find some literature or watch some videos on beating US poker sites. Good luck at the tables!