Message boards and websites are filled with quality poker information, but sometimes the authors use “poker shorthand” to describe the game situations. If you’re not familiar with the terms, you can’t take full advantage of the knowledge being shared. Reading through the Poker Shorthand Primer will help you understand what people are actually saying when they say, “YMTC, playing Kxs in LP”..
Poker comes with it’s own language, slang included. While anyone who has seen an episode of the World Poker Tour knows that pocket Queens can be called the “lovely ladies” or the “hilton sisters”, there is more to poker lingo than hand nicknames.
A lot of websites and message boards offer poker strategy and advice, and knowing the basic terms and how to read poker shorthand can unlock this world of information. First, let’s look at the shorthand that poker players use to describe the cards during a hand.
The ranks of the cards are given, followed by a letter indicating their suit. So the King of Clubs is written, Kc. The two of Hearts is written as 2h. Tens are written as the letter T. You may see a...