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Hero

When we say "hero", we mean the main player who played the hand. If you show a hand history to a friend, a hand saved on your computer, when you play the hand back with your tracker, you will be named as the "hero" of the hand. All your opponents will be named "villain". When we talk about hero, we are talking about the player who has to make a decision. On a replayer, the hero will be the player whose cards are known. This is a very common vocabulary among poker players, both in English and in other languages.

Hero vs. villain

Using the right vocabulary makes it easier to understand each other. Sometimes you want to analyse a hand when talking to a friend or players on the poker forums. We may ask "was it a good bluff by hero?" or "if you were naughty, would you have made the call?" You have to look at it in the same way as when analysing a work of literature where there are heroes (e.g. Batman) and villains (e.g. the Joker).

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