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Sizing in poker refers to the size of a bet, either in big blinds, a monetary amount, or a percentage of the total pot. Bet sizing in poker is an extremely important part of the game and can make the difference between a winning and losing player.

A sit and go is a type of poker tournament that begins as soon as all players are registered. It differs from regular poker tournaments that start at specified time regardless of how many players are registered. Required number of entrants for a sit and go range from 2 to hundreds. Sit and gopayout structures may vary, for example, double or nothing sit and go’s reward exactly half of the entrants with double their buyin amount.

Find the meaning of the term "side pot" in poker along with important strategy concepts such as the “dry side pot”.

Showdown occurs at the end of a poker hand where all remaining players must reveal the strength of their hole cards. At this point, the player with the strongest hand will win the entire pot. If two or more players have the same hand at showdown then the pot is split equally between all winners. The term showdown values means that hand is strong enough to occasionally win at showdown, even if not an especially strong hand overall.

A short stack is any player that has less than the usual amount of chips for a certain game. As an example, in cash games, many players rebuy if their stack falls short of 100bb. As such, any cash game player with a stack less than 100bb may be referred to as a short stacker. Professional short stackers are players who deliberately buy in with a smaller than average stack in order to exploit the fact that they have explicitly studied short stack strategy.

A semi bluff is a bluff made with a hand that has potential to improve to a strong hand. The most obvious examples are bluffs made while holding flush draws, open-ended straight draws and gutshots. Semi bluffs are always more profitable than pure bluffs, because we essentially have two chances to win the pot. Either our opponent folds, or he calls and we make our strong made hand.