I love watching the pro's on TV. Yes, they do use strange terms, in deed. There are poker term glossaries on-line and sites that explain basic poker strategy. No limit Texas Hold'em is mostly the type of poker played on TV. It really is the best form of poker. I play it. However, I grind allot of long hand fix limit too as well as other forms of poker.

There's allot of math involved. But pot odds have a simple formula. Times the outs (the cards that are needed to complete a drawing hand) by two for each card to be drawn and add one. It's not the exact odds, but close enough.

Think of it as getting two to one on a coin toss. If you have about a 30% chance to make an ace high flush and there are four times more chips in the pot than what you need to call, call the bit. It's a money winning play in the long run. But if you have a 30% chance at making the nuts (an unbeatable hand) and the pot is laying you 2 to 1 fold. That's a money losing play in the long run. That's like risking a dollar to win fifty-cents on a coin toss. In the long run, you'll lose money. That's just basic strategy. At the pro level, it's about playing the player.

Position is important too. Being the last player to act is the best position to be in. That's call 'in position'. Under the gun is the position to the left of the big blind which acts first before board cards are dealt. In this position it's best to play very good starting hands because there might be a few raises behind you. I've picked up allot of pots just by betting in position. If everybody checks to me, they are telling me that they have nothing.

Slow playing is checking a strong hand. When I bluff, I usually take one shot at it. But with some calling stations (a player who calls with anything) who turns into a folding station on the river, I'll bluff all the way to the river. That depends on how well I can read the calling station. Some calling stations will start to bet and raise once they made a hand. Poker is a game of skill.