ACES UP: A pair of Aces with any other pair.
ACTION: Making a move.� Either folding, checking, calling, betting, or raising. Other examples are showing your cards at the end of the hand, and drawing cards.
ACTIVE PLAYER: Anyone involved in a hand.� A player that has not folded his cards.
AGGRESSIVE ACTION: A bet or raise that might allow a player to win a pot without a showdown.
ALL BLUE: A clubs or spades flush.
ALL-IN: Betting all of your money/chips into the pot during the course of a hand.
ALL PINK: A diamonds or hearts flush.
ANTE: A forced wager posted required of all players before the cards are dealt.
BACK DOOR: When a player makes a hand he wasn’t intentionally drawing toward.
BACK RAISE: Re-raising.� Raising after another player raises.
BAD BEAT:�� When a hand with a low percentage of winning catches a miracle card and suddenly beats a hand with a higher percentage of winning.�
BET: The act putting the money or chips put into the pot.
BIG BLIND: The largest regular blind in a game. A forced wager before the cards are dealt.
BLANK: A card that has little value to the hand.
BLIND: A forced wager made before the cards are dealt.
BLIND GAME: A game which utilizes a blind.
BLUFF: A bet or raise which is made to give the impression of strength when the layer actually holds a weak hand.
BOARD: (1) a waiting list of players wanting seats in specific games. (2) Community cards dealt face up in the middle of the table
BOARDCARD: Community cards dealt face up in the middle of the table.
BOTTOM PAIR: Pairing the lowest value card on the board.
BOXED CARD: A card that appears face-up in a deck where all other cards are facedown.
BROKEN GAME: A game no longer in action.
BUTTON: A player who is in the designated dealer position. The last player to act in a game.
BUTTON GAMES: Games in which a dealer button is used.
BUY-IN: The minimum amount of money required to enter a game.
CAPPED: Occurs in limit poker when the maximum number of raises in a particular betting round has been reached.
CHASE: To play a hand that is least likely to win.
CHECK: To waive the right to initiate the betting in a round, but to retain the right to act if another player initiates the betting.
CHECK-RAISE: To waive the right to bet until a bet has been made by an opponent, and then to increase the bet by at least an equal amount when it is your turn to act.
COLD CALL: To call a single bet or a bet with subsequent raises for the first time in a round.
COLLECTION: The fee charged in any game.
COLLECTION DROP: A fee charged for every hand dealt.
COLOR CHANGE: A request to change your chips from one denomination to another.
COMMON CARD: In Stud.� A card dealt face up to be used by all players when there aren’t enough cards left in the deck to deal each player an individual card.
COMMUNITY CARDS: In Hold’em, Razz and Omaha.� The cards dealt face-up in the center of the table that can be used by all players to form their best hand.
COMPLETE THE BET: To increase a small blind to a full bet.
CUT: To divide the deck into two sections in such a manner as to change the order of the cards.
CUT-CARD: The bottom card.
DEAD CARD: A card that is not legally playable.
DEAD HAND: A hand that is not legally playable.
DEAL: To give each player cards, or put cards on the board.
DEALING HIGH CARD: When the dealer literally deals one card to each player at the table with the goal of singling one player out for a table move, new dealer button etc.� The ‘winner’ of this one card deal is the player who is dealt the highest card.� This player is ‘awarded’ the button, the seat change etc.
DEAL OFF: To take all the blinds and the button before changing seats or leaving the table.
DECK: A set of playing-cards.
DISCARD: In a draw.� To muck cards from your hand to make room for replacements.
DOWNCARDS: In Stud.� Cards that are dealt facedown.
DRAW:� The game where players are given the opportunity to replace cards in their hand.��
DRAWING DEAD: Drawing to a hand that cannot possibly win because someone else holds a hand that will beat what you are drawing to.
DOMINATED: A hand that yields three or less outs.
EARLY POSITION: A position in which you must act before most of the players during a round.
FACECARD: A king, queen, or jack.
FLOP: The first three community cards dealt up after the first round of betting is complete.
FIXED LIMIT: In limit poker, any betting structure in which the amount of the bet on each particular round is pre-set.
FLASHED CARD: A card that is exposed.
FLUSH: A poker hand consisting of five cards of the same suit.
FOLD: To throw a hand away.
FOURTH STREET: The second up-card in seven-card stud or the fourth community card in Hold’em.
FORCED BET: A required wager to start the action on the first betting round.
FREEROLL: A chance to win something at no risk or cost.
FULL BUY: A buy-in of at least the minimum requirement of chips needed for a particular game.
FULL HOUSE: A hand consisting of three of a kind and a pair.
HEADS-UP PLAY: Only two players involved in play.
KICKER: The highest unpaired card that helps determine the value of a five-card poker hand.
LATE POSITION: A position in which you act after most of the other players during a round.
LIVE BLIND: A blind bet giving a player the option of raising if no one else has raised.
LOCK-UP: A chip marker that holds a seat for a player.
LOOSE: Playing a lot of hands.
LOOSE GAME: A game with a lot of players that play in most hands.
LOWBALL: A draw game where the lowest hand wins.
LOWCARD: The lowest upcard at seven-card stud, which is required to bet.
MIDDLE PAIR: Pairing the second highest card on the board.
MIDDLE POSITION: A position in which you act somewhere between the other players in a
round.
MISCALL: An incorrect verbal declaration of the ranking of a hand.
MISDEAL: A mistake on the dealing of a hand which causes the cards to be reshuffled and a new hand to be dealt.
MUCK: To discard, or fold a hand.
NO-LIMIT: A betting structure where players are allowed to wager any or all of their chips in one bet.
NUTS: The best possible hand.
OPENER: The player who made the first voluntary bet.
OPTION: The choice to raise a bet given to a player with a blind.
OUTS: The cards that will improve a hand to win.
OVER CARD: A hole card that is higher than any other card on the board.
OVER PAIR: Two hole cards paired and higher than any card on the board.
PASSIVE: Checking and calling rather than betting and raising.
PLAY THE BOARD: In Hold’em.� Using all five community cards, and not your hole cards, for
your best hand.
POSITION: The order of acting on a betting round or deal as determined by the location of the button.
POT-LIMIT: The betting structure of a game in which you are allowed to bet up to the amount of the pot.
PROPOSITION BETS: Private side bets between players that are not related to the hand.
PROTECTED HAND: A hand of cards that the player is physically protecting to avoid flashing or fouling.
RAGS: Cards generally not worth playing.
RAISE: To increase the amount of a previous wager.
RE-RAISE: To raise someone’s raise.
RIVER: The final community card dealt.
SIDE POT: when a player is all in and the other players continue to bet, a SIDEPOT is formed.�
This pot cannot be won by the player who is all in.
SHOWDOWN: The final act of determining the winner.
SHUFFLE: The act of mixing the cards before a hand.
SMALL BLIND: In a game with multiple blind bets, the smallest blind.
SPLIT POT: A pot that is divided among players, either because of a tie for the best hand or by agreement prior to the showdown.
STACK: Chips in front of a player.
STEAL: To bet or raise causing an opponent to fold when you may not hold the best hand.
STRAIGHT: Five cards in consecutive rank.
STRAIGHT FLUSH: Five cards in consecutive rank of the same suit.
STRING RAISE: A bet made in more than one motion, without the declaration of a raise.� Considered rude and generally not allowed.
TIGHT: Playing fewer hands than normal.
TIGHT GAME: A game with very few players involved in each hand.
TOP PAIR: Pairing the highest card on the board.
TOURNAMENT: A poker competition, normally with an entry fee and prizes.
TURN: The fourth card dealt on the board during community card games.
WAGER: To bet or raise.
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