Open-Ended Straight Draw
An ‘open-ended straight draw’ is when you are waiting for one or two cards to land to make a straight. For example, you hold 10 and 9 with a poker board of 8, 7, 3, so you’d need a Jack or a 6 to make a straight.
Glossary Terms
Out
An ‘out’ card is one that is likely to give us the best hand if it falls. Knowing the number of outs an opponent might have is an important strategy of poker.
Outright Bet
An outright bet is a straightforward gamble on the outcome of something. In football, outright bets are often placed on a team to win a league or a cup, for example to win the FA Cup outright.
Outrun
To ‘outrun’ an opponent is to win the hand with cards that have hit on the river, i.e. I have outrun you with a flush.
Outs
In poker, “outs” refer to the number of cards in the deck that can improve a player’s hand to a winning one. Specifically, outs are the cards that, if drawn on future streets (the turn or the river), would complete a drawing hand and potentially make it a winning hand. Knowing the number of outs …
Overcall
To ‘overcall’ in poker means you have called a bet after one or more of your opponents have already called, also known as ‘calling behind’.
Overcard
An ‘overcard’ is one that is higher than any other card on the poker table. You can also have two overcards, for example, if you have a King and Queen, then the flop comes 10, 7, 3, you won’t have a pair, but you have two overcards.
Overpair
An ‘overpair’ hand in poker is one where you have a pocket pair that is higher than any card produced on the flop. For example, you hold two Jacks, and the flop comes 10, 8, 6, leaving you with an overpair.
Overround
Overround, also known as vigorish (vig), juice, or margin, is a concept in sports betting that represents the bookmaker’s built-in profit margin on a particular betting market. It is the difference between the implied probability of all possible outcomes in an event and 100%. The overround ensures that the bookmaker always makes a profit, regardless …
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