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Sandbagging is another word for ‘slowplaying’ or ‘trapping’ in poker. It refers to playing a strong made hand passively (by checking and/or calling) in an attempt to deceive our opponent into thinking that we don’t hold a strong hand. The hope is that either our opponent tries to run a big bluff, or doesn’t give us credit when we start betting/raising aggressively on the later betting rounds.
The term run in poker refers to how the cards fall over a period of time i.e. the run of the cards. When the cards are favourable for a player it can be described with the term ‘running good’, while non-favourable cards can be referred to as ‘running bad’. The run of cards over an individual hand of poker is often referred as the runout i.e. the board runout.
A river rat is a player who has a history of catching lucky cards on the river to win the pot. Of course, statistically all players will catch the same amount of good river cards in the long run. A river rat is therefore someone who continues past the flop and turn with overly speculative hands, giving the appearance of someone who gets exceptionally lucky when they hit and go on to win the pot.
Rap simply means to tap the table. Rapping the table twice is considered as a non-verbal indicator of checking.
Pocket rockets is a nickname for getting dealt AA (pocket Aces) in Hold’em.Pocket rockets is the best possible starting hand in Hold’em. The name pocket rockets itself doesn’t carry any strategy value, but we might find ourselves left out of a poker conversation if we aren’t familiar with the terminology.
Paint means any card between (and including) a Jack and Ace. The word paint references the fact that the cards Jack, Queen, King and Ace, typically have a lot more going on in the way of artwork than a standard card such as a Seven.
