Name: Learn English – Vocabulary & Expressions for POKER and other card games
Uploaded: 2016-07-22T06:18:57.000Z
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Do you know how to play poker in English?

I'm going to teach you. I know how to play poker.

I am not very good at playing poker; I always seem to get really terrible

cards, no fault of my own. Very skilled in the game, just bad luck. Luck of the draw

is not with me. I'm going to put my old-school video camera away, and we're going to learn

So, the first thing that we need to know about poker is it's a game. Woo-hoo. It's become

very, very, very popular online because you can get a lot of money.

The way I learned to play poker was my father taught me, after many a grape soda,

sitting around the kitchen table, betting matchsticks.

So, welcome to my childhood. I learned how to play poker.

The most important thing is to learn the name of the cards in English. So, probably you

know: A, K, Q, J, 10, and the numbers, but these actually have names.

Then it goes from 10 all the way down to 2.

There is no 1. Sometimes the ace can be used as a 1, but that's too

complicated, and I'm not going to tell you my tricks.

Well, you're going to lose anyway, so might as well.

The other thing that we need to know is what to call the cards. So, these are suits. Not...

Suit? Suit, suit, suits... Suits, they're called... I don't know why they're called

suits, they're just suits. So, the suits means: Hearts, diamonds, clubs, and spades.

Now, when I was a child, I had a very stupid brother. Still do. Mm-hmm.

Okay? It's a spade, buddy; not a shovel. Get it right. Okay?

So, hearts, diamonds, clubs, and spades are the proper names of these. So, now you know the vocabulary

of the wor-... Of the cards. I'm going to teach you some verbs that you need.

The first one probably you know, is a bluff. "Bluff" means you have a face...

Oh, Lady Gaga go away. Mm-hmm. Poker Face.

Do you know what that means? "Poker face" means you are expressionless.

Usually you have a baseball hat, so people can't see your eyes. But a bluff

is when you do not let your face show your cards or what you're doing. So, if you're

betting money or matchsticks and you want to bluff, you're going to pretend that you

have a fabtabulous hand. Now, "the hand" means what cards you have. So, I'm going to pretend

that I have the highest cards ever, called a "royal flush". So I would not make expressions

with my face, and I would bet a lot of money. I would be bluffing, because maybe I have

really, really bad cards. I always have bad cards. So, "bluff" means to, like, lie and

pretend you have really, really good cards.

The most important word is "bet". "Bet" means you put in money that you're going to lose

Before they even deal the cards-"deal the cards" means you give them

to people- there's something called an "ante". An "ante", not your mother's sister, means

a forced bet before the deal. So, if we were playing cards or playing poker, and I have

I would never do that. And then everyone else that

wants to play would have to put in, automatically, $100, even before we look at our cards. Scary.

What happens is we have the first bet is called "open". So, it would be my turn, I could open,

which means I would put in money; or if I did not want to, I could "check" or "pass".

This means I don't want to play with money. I'm just like: "No. Enh, we'll see what happens."

If I have a really, really, really terrible hand, which means my cards are not good,

I would do what's called "folding" or "fold". I would say: "Fold." Fold means:

"This is terrible, I'm out. I end the game. I'm no longer playing this."

When you bet, you can "call", which means you match what the other person has bet.

For example, if the person before me bet $10, I would call, and I also would put in $10.

If I wanted to get more money from people, I would "raise the pot", which means I would

put in my $10, and I would add more money. So, if I had a really good hand, I would say:

So the other people playing, if they wanted to stay

Is it complicated yet? It's not, really. It's just...

most important is the money, but they don't call it "the money", they call it "the pot".

So, "the pot" means the money that you're going to lose or win. So all of the money

that people bet goes into a pot. It's not really a pot.

So, this is one thing that we really, really, really have to remember and memorize if you

want to be a very good poker player. This is the hardest part about poker, other than

getting the cards that you want, is what all these words mean. So... And the ranking of

them. Basically, the ace is the highest number one card, and it goes down in order. So, if

So, this number one, most impossible hand is called a "royal flush".

Flush the toilet. A royal flush is almost impossible to get, because

it is the ace, the king, the queen, the jack, the 10, and it must be of the same suit. Suit?

The same colour. Right? So, it has to be either all hearts, or all diamonds, or it must be

all clubs or all spades. So, when I... Remember, when I say "the same suit", it has to be the

same; hearts, diamonds, clubs, or spades. Got it? If you have the royal flush, you are

guaranteed going to win. You are going to throw down all of the money that you have

in your piggy bank, in your pocket, in your bank account, you're going to mortgage your

house - you are going to win. No other hand in the world, ever, can beat a royal flush.

One down from the royal flush would be a "straight flush". Example:

If I have a royal flush and you have a straight flush, I win. [Laughs] But it's really hard to get a royal flush.

So, a straight flush is any sequence of five cards, it must be the same colour. So, for example,

or I could have: 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, as long as there are

five cards in the chronological order, the same number order, and again, they must be

of the same suit. So, if you have all the same colours, but one's a heart, one's a diamond

- you're not having it. It must be the exact same colour, the exact same suit, and the

numbers must be in order, black or white. If you have this, you're betting your house

again. This is hard to get. You're going to win.

So, one down from the straight flush is "four of a kind".

One, two, three, four. So this means you have four cards of each suit. So, for example,

you have all of the aces, down to all of the 2s.

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