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Crack means to improve to beat a strong holding in poker. The most common usage is in Hold’em games where a player pocket Aces gets beaten, but it can be used in any scenario where a strong hand loses.

Counterfeit essentially means that a relatively strong hand gets significantly weakened after an additional card is dealt. A common example in Hold’em might be where we hold two-pair on the flop but the turn card pairs damaging the value of our hand. Imagine we hold 89 on the T98 board and the turn card comes a Ten. Our eight becomes irrelevant because we now hold Tens and Nines. Furthermore, any player with a Ten or strong 9x (such as A9) has now improved to beat us. We say that our two-pair has been counterfeited. Counterfeiting applies to a range of additional scenarios and also features strongly in games with low hand ranking systems such as Omaha hi/lo.

Find the meaning of the term "blocker bet" in poker and learn whether it has any real grounding in poker theory.

A cooler is a hand that is clearly too strong to fold but ends up being second best after the chips go in. The most common example of cooler is picking up pocket Kings preflop and our opponent has the Aces. In most situations it would be completely incorrect to fold KK preflop, but we have to accept that sometimes we will be coolered by the AA. Other examples might include ‘set over set’ or losing with a full house against a stronger full house (depending on the exact circumstances).

Connector means that one card is directly connected to another by rank. For example, in Hold’em, 78s (Seven Eight suited) is referred to as a ‘suited connector’ because the two cards are directly connected by rank.Cards with a gap (such as 79s) may also be referred to as connectors but they are more commonly referred to as one-gappers, two-gappers or three-gappers, depending on the size of the gap.

The meaning of complete depends on the poker variant in question. In poker variants with blinds (such as Hold’em and Omaha), to complete means to limp in the SB. We don’t have to pay the full big blind in this instance since we have already invested a small blind; we simply complete our bet by investing the remaining chips. The second meaning involves Stud games on third street (the first betting round). The first player to act on third street can either pay the ‘bring-in’ amount or complete by raising to the amount of the small bet.