A knockout tournament (also known as a bounty hunter or bounty tournament) is a tournament in which a percentage of the prize pool is awarded in bounties. Every player has a bounty on their head, and by knocking out a player you get to keep their bounty. For example, in a $100+20 buy-in Knockout tournament…

Posting overblinds in order to raise the limit of a hand to stimulate play is called a Kill Pot, and is oftentimes the result of a player winning consecutive pots. Can also be a half-kill. For example, in a $4/$8 game, a kill pot would raise the next hand to $8/$16 limits, whereas a half-kill…

The Kicker is the side card that is not used to determine a hand’s rank but is used to break ties among players with the same hand. For example, if one player has AK and another has AQ, and the board runs out A-6-6-2-4, the player with AK wins. Both players have a pair of…