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Under the Gun means “first to act on the first betting round”. It’s typically used to designate the early positions at a poker table, but it can be used to describe any player who is first to act, regardless of their exact position. In other words, on a three handed Hold’em table, the button could also be described as “under the gun”.
Two-tone refers to group of cards which is made up of two different suits. It is primarily used to describe flop textures in Hold’em and Omaha. For example, the flop comes King of spades, Queen of clubs, Jack of clubs. There are two suits on the flop, spades and clubs, hence we might call it ‘King Queen Jacktwo-tone’. Although this is by far the most common application, any distribution of cards where there are two distinct suits may be referred to as two-tone.
Two-pair in poker is the hand made by holding two sets of pairs. In other words, we have two sets of two cards with identical rank e.g. KKAAQQ. The strength of a two-pair is always determined by the rank of its highest pair. So AA22K beats KKQQJ. Note that since poker hands are formulated with five cards, a two-pair type hand will leave room for one kicker. If two players have an identical two-pair, it is the kicker that determines the winner. Two-pair beats a pair but loses to three of a kind.
Two-bet (or 2bet) refers to the second bet in a sequence. I.e. it’s a bet (1bet) followed by a raise (2bet). It’s worth remembering that in games with blinds (such as Hold’em and Omaha), the blinds count as the first bet on the preflop betting round. As such, any open-raise in Hold’em and Omaha can be referred to as a 2bet.
The Turn is the name for the third betting round in community card games such as Hold’em and Omaha. It is the second of the three postflop betting rounds (flop, turn, and river). Turn is also the name for the lone community card that is dealt on that betting round. It’s the fourth community card since three community cards are dealt on the flop.
Trips is a name given to three of a kind when specifically formed with only one of our hole cards. For example, in Hold’em, the flop comes TT5 and we hold KTo. If the texture is instead KT5 and we hold TT, this is typically referred to as a ‘set’ because we are using two of our hole cards to formulate the three of a kind component of the hand.
