Paint Cards
Paint cards are the king, queen and jack, also called face cards, court cards or picture cards. They have pictures of faces.
The simple explanation
Paint cards are the cards with a face on them: the jack, queen and king.
A closer look
On a board, paint cards are high cards, and they favor the player who raised before the flop, because he has more high cards in his range. A board of K-Q-J is very connected. The words 'paint' and 'face' cards mean the same.
A practical example
The flop is K♠ J♦ Q♥, all paint cards.
Full explanation
Paint cards are the king, queen and jack, also called face cards, court cards or picture cards. They have pictures of faces.
Paint cards are the jack, queen and king.
They are also called face cards.
They are high cards.
They often favor the preflop raiser.
Picture cards
No-limit Hold’em · Blinds 1/2 chips · No rake
The blinds are 1 and 2 chips. Heads-up, the dealer (D) also posts the small blind.
Read the example transcript
Player A has the button (BTN) and posts the 1-chip small blind (SB). Player B posts the 2-chip big blind (BB).
- Preflop · Pot: 3 chips
The blinds are 1 and 2 chips. Heads-up, the dealer (D) also posts the small blind.
- Player A BTN / SB AAce of hearts (Ah)QQueen of diamonds (Qd) · Stack 199 · In this round 1
- Player B BB 99 of clubs (9c)88 of clubs (8c) · Stack 198 · In this round 2
- Preflop · Pot: 8 chips
Player A raises to 6 before the flop.
- Player A BTN / SB AAce of hearts (Ah)QQueen of diamonds (Qd) · Stack 194 · In this round 6
- Player B BB 99 of clubs (9c)88 of clubs (8c) · Stack 198 · In this round 2
- Preflop · Pot: 12 chips
Player B calls. Each player has put in 6 chips.
- Player A BTN / SB AAce of hearts (Ah)QQueen of diamonds (Qd) · Stack 194 · In this round 6
- Player B BB 99 of clubs (9c)88 of clubs (8c) · Stack 194 · In this round 6
- Flop · Pot: 12 chips
The flop brings king, jack and queen. Cards that show a face are picture cards.
Board: KKing of spades (Ks)JJack of diamonds (Jd)QQueen of hearts (Qh)
- Player A BTN / SB AAce of hearts (Ah)QQueen of diamonds (Qd) · Stack 194 · In this round 0
- Player B BB 99 of clubs (9c)88 of clubs (8c) · Stack 194 · In this round 0
Cards are shown for learning; totals are displayed before pot collection.