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Aces Up: |
Two pair, a pair of Aces
and any other pair. |
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ACTION: |
A fold, check, call,
bet, or raise. For certain situations, doing something
formally connected with the game that conveys information
about your hand may also be considered as having
taken action. Examples would be showing your cards
at the end of the hand, or indicating the number
of cards you are taking at draw. |
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Active
Player: |
A player still involved
in a hand. |
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AGGRESSIVE
ACTION: |
A wager that could enable
a player to win a pot without a showdown; a bet
or raise. |
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All Blue: |
A flush containing either
clubs or spades. |
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ALL-IN: |
When you have put all
of your playable money and chips into the pot during
the course of a hand, you are said to be all-in. |
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All Pink: |
A flush containing either
diamonds or hearts. |
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Ante: |
A prescribed amount posted
before the start of a hand by all players. |
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Back Door
: |
Making a hand that the
player wasn't drawing at. |
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Back Raise
: |
To reraise another players
raise. |
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Bad Beat
: |
A hand being beat by
another hand that had a very low percentage of becoming
a winning hand. |
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BET: |
The act of placing a
wager in turn into the pot on any betting round,
or the chips put into the pot. |
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BIG BLIND: |
The largest regular blind
in a game. |
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Blank
: |
A card that has little
value to the hand. |
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BLIND: |
A required bet made before
any cards are dealt. |
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BLIND
GAME: |
A game which utilizes
a blind. |
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Bluff
: |
A bet or raise with a
hand that is unlikely to beat the other players. |
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BOARD: |
(1) The board on which a waiting list is kept
for players wanting seats in specific games.
(2) Cards faceup on the table common to each of
the hands.
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BOARDCARD: |
A community card in the
center of the table, as in hold'em or Omaha. |
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Bottom
Pair : |
Pairing the lowest card
on the board. |
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BOXED
CARD: |
A card that appears faceup
in the deck where all other cards are facedown. |
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BROKEN
GAME: |
A game no longer in action. |
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Button
: |
A player who is in the
designated dealer position. See dealer button. |
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BUTTON
GAMES: |
Games in which a dealer
button is used. |
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BUY-IN: |
The minimum amount of
money required to enter any game. |
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CALIFORNIA
LOWBALL: |
Ace-to-five lowball with
a joker. |
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CARDS
SPEAK: |
The face value of a hand
in a showdown is the true value of the hand, regardless
of a verbal announcement. |
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CAPPED: |
Describes the situation
in limit poker in which the maximum number of raises
on the betting round have been reached. |
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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. |
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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. |
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Cold Call
: |
To call a bet or multiple
bets for the first time in a round. |
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COLLECTION: |
The fee charged in a
game (taken either out of the pot or from each player). |
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COLLECTION
DROP: |
A fee charged for each
hand dealt. |
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COLOR
CHANGE: |
A request to change the
chips from one denomination to another. |
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COMMON
CARD: |
A card dealt faceup to
be used by all players at the showdown in the games
of stud poker whenever there are insufficient cards
left in the deck to deal each player a card individually.
Community Cards : The cards dealt faceup in the
center of the table that can be used by all players
to form their best hand in the games of hold"em
and Omaha. |
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COMPLETE
THE BET: |
To increase an all-in
bet or forced bet to a full bet in limit poker. |
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Chase
: |
To play a hand that is
most likely worse than at least one other player. |
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Check
: |
To pass without betting. |
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CUT: |
To divide the deck into
two sections in such a manner as to change the order
of the cards. |
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CUT-CARD: |
Another term for the
bottom card. |
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DEAD CARD: |
A card that is not legally
playable. |
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DEAD COLLECTION
BLIND: |
A fee posted by the player
having the dealer button, used in some games as
an alternative method of seat rental. |
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DEAD HAND: |
A hand that is not legally
playable. |
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DEAD MONEY: |
Chips that are taken
into the center of the pot because they are not
considered part of a particular player's bet. |
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DEAL: |
To give each player cards,
or put cards on the board. As used in these rules,
each deal refers to the entire process from the
shuffling and dealing of cards until the pot is
awarded to the winner. |
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DEALER
BUTTON: |
A flat disk that indicates
the player who would be in the dealing position
for that hand (if there were not a house dealer).
Normally just called "the button." |
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DEAL OFF: |
To take all the blinds
and the button before changing seats or leaving
the table. That is, participate through all the
blind positions and the dealer position. |
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DEAL TWICE: |
When there is no more
betting, agreeing to have the rest of the cards
to come determine only half the pot, removing those
cards, and dealing again for the other half of the
pot. |
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DECK: |
A set of playing-cards.
In these games, the deck consists of either:
(1) 52 cards in seven-card stud, hold'em, and Omaha.
(2) 53 cards (including the joker), often used in
ace-to-five lowball and draw high. |
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DISCARD(S): |
In a draw game, to throw
cards out of your hand to make room for replacements,
or the card(s) thrown away; the muck. |
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DOWNCARDS: |
Cards that are dealt
facedown in a stud game. |
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DRAW: |
(1) The poker form where
players are given the opportunity to replace cards
in the hand. In some places like California, the
word "draw" is used referring to draw
high, and draw low is called "lowball."
(2) The act of replacing cards in the hand.
(3) The point in the deal where replacing is done
is called "the draw." |
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Drawing
Dead : |
Drawing to a hand that
cannot win because someone already holds a hand
that will beat what you are drawing to. |
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Dominated
: |
A hand that yields three
or less outs which makes improving it very difficult.
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Early
Position : |
A position in which you
must act before most of the players during a round. |
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FACECARD: |
A king, queen, or jack. |
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Flop : |
The first three community
cards dealt up at one time at a poker table. |
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FIXED
LIMIT: |
In limit poker, any betting
structure in which the amount of the bet on each
particular round is pre-set. |
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FLASHED
CARD: |
A card that is partially
exposed. |
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FLOORPERSON: |
A casino employee who
seats players and makes decisions. |
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FLOP: |
In hold'em or Omaha,
the three community cards that are turned simultaneously
after the first round of betting is complete. |
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FLUSH: |
A poker hand consisting
of five cards of the same suit. FOLD: To throw a
hand away and relinquish all interest in a pot. |
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FOURTH
STREET: |
The second upcard in
seven-card stud or the first boardcard after the
flop in hold'em (also called the turn card). |
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FOULED
HAND: |
A dead hand. |
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FORCED
BET: |
A required wager to start
the action on the first betting round (the normal
way action begins in a stud game). |
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FREEROLL: |
A chance to win something
at no risk or cost. |
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FULL BUY: |
A buy-in of at least
the minimum requirement of chips needed for a particular
game. |
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FULL HOUSE: |
A hand consisting of
three of a kind and a pair. |
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HAND: |
(1) All a player's personal
cards.
(2) The five cards determining the poker ranking.
(3) A single poker deal. |
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HEADS-UP
PLAY: |
Only two players involved
in play. |
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INSURANCE: |
A side agreement when
someone is all-in for a player in a pot to put up
money that guarantees a payoff of a set amount in
case the opponent wins the pot. |
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JOKER: |
The joker is a "partially
wild card" in high draw poker and ace-to-five
lowball. In high, it is used for aces, straights,
and flushes. In lowball, the joker is the lowest
unmatched rank in a hand. |
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KANSAS
CITY LOWBALL: |
A form of draw poker
low also known as deuce-to-seven, in which the best
hand is 7-5-4-3-2 and straights and flushes count
against you. |
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Kicker
: |
The highest unpaired
card that helps determine the value of a five-card
poker hand. |
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KILL (OR
KILL BLIND): |
An oversize blind, usually
twice the size of the big blind and doubling the
limit. Sometimes a "half-kill" increasing
the blind and limits by fifty percent is used. A
kill can be either voluntary or mandatory. The most
common requirements of a mandatory kill are for
winning two pots in a row at lowball and other games,
or for scooping a pot in high-low split. |
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KILL BUTTON: |
A button used in a lowball
game to indicate a player who has won two pots in
a row and is required to kill the pot. |
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KILL POT: |
A pot with a forced kill
by the winner of the two previous pots, or the winner
of an entire pot of sufficient size in a high-low
split game. (Some pots can be voluntarily killed.) |
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Late Position
: |
A position in which you
act after most of the other players during a round.
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LEG UP: |
Being in a situation
equivalent to having won the previous pot, and thus
liable to have to kill the following pot if you
win the current pot. |
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LIVE BLIND: |
A blind bet giving a
player the option of raising if no one else has
raised. |
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LIST: |
The ordered roster of
players waiting for a game. |
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LOCK-UP: |
A chip marker that holds
a seat for a player. |
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Loose
: |
Playing more hands than
normal. |
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Loose
Game : |
A game with a lot of
players in most hands. |
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LOWBALL: |
A draw game where the
lowest hand wins. |
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LOWCARD: |
The lowest upcard at
seven-card stud, which is required to bet. |
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Middle
Pair : |
Pairing the second highest
card on the board. |
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Middle
Position : |
A position in which you
act somewhere between most of the other players
during a round. |
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MISCALL: |
An incorrect verbal declaration
of the ranking of a hand. |
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MISDEAL: |
A mistake on the dealing
of a hand which causes the cards to be reshuffled
and a new hand to be dealt. |
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MISSED
BLIND: |
A required bet that is
not posted when it is your turn to do so. |
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MUCK: |
(1) The pile of discards
gathered facedown in the center of the table by
the dealer.
(2) To discard a hand. |
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MUST-MOVE: |
In order to protect the
main game, a situation where the players of a second
game must move into the first game as openings occur. |
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NO-LIMIT: |
A betting structure where
players are allowed to wager any or all of their
chips in one bet. |
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Nuts : |
The best possible hand. |
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OPENER: |
The player who made the
first voluntary bet. |
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OPENER
BUTTON: |
A button used to indicate
who opened a particular pot in a draw game. |
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OPENERS: |
In jacks-or-better draw,
the cards held by the player who opens the pot that
show the hand qualifies to be opened. Example: You
are first to bet and have a pair of kings; the kings
are called your openers. |
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OPTION: |
The choice to raise a
bet given to a player with a blind. |
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Outs : |
The cards that will improve
a hand to win. |
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OVERBLIND: |
Also called oversize
blind. A blind used in some pots that is bigger
than the regular big blind, and usually increases
the stakes proportionally. |
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Overcard: |
A hole card that is higher
than any other card on the board. |
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Overpair: |
Two hole cards paired
and higher than any card on the board. |
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PASS: |
(1) Decline to bet. In
a pass-and-out game, this differs from a check,
because a player who passes must fold.
(2) Decline to call a wager, at which point you
must discard your hand and have no further interest
in the pot. |
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Passive
: |
Checking and calling hands rather betting and raising
hands. |
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PAT: |
Not drawing any cards
in a draw game. |
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PLAY BEHIND: |
Have chips in play that
are not in front of you (allowed only when waiting
for chips that are already purchased). This differs
from table stakes. |
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PLAY THE
BOARD: |
Using all five community
cards for your hand in hold'em. |
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PLAY OVER: |
To play in a seat when
the occupant is absent. |
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PLAYOVER
BOX: |
A clear plastic box used
to cover and protect the chips of an absent player
when someone plays over that seat. |
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POSITION: |
(1) The relation of a
player's seat to the blinds or the button.
(2) The order of acting on a betting round or deal. |
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POT-LIMIT: |
The betting structure
of a game in which you are allowed to bet up to
the amount of the pot. |
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POTTING
OUT: |
Agreeing with another
player to take money out of a pot, often to buy
food, cigarettes, or drinks, or to make side bets. |
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PROPOSITION
BETS: |
Side bets between players
that are not related to the outcome of the hand. |
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PROTECTED
HAND: |
A hand of cards that
the player is physically holding, or has topped
with a chip or some other object to prevent a fouled
hand. |
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PUSH: |
When a new dealer replaces
an existing dealer at a particular table. |
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PUSHING
BETS: |
The situation in which
two or more players make an agreement to return
bets to each other when one of them wins a pot in
which the other or others play. Also called saving
bets. |
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RACK: |
(1) A container in which
chips are stored while being transported.
(2) A tray in front of the dealer, used to hold
chips and cards. |
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Rags : |
Cards generally not worth
playing. IE: 2,7 in Texas Hold'em. |
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RAISE: |
To increase the amount
of a previous wager. This increase must meet certain
specifications, depending on the game, to reopen
the betting and count toward a limit on the number
of raises allowed. |
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RERAISE: |
To raise someone's raise. |
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River
: |
The final card dealt. |
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SAVING
BETS: |
Same as pushing bets. |
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SCOOP: |
To win both the high
and the low portions of a pot in a split-pot game. |
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SCRAMBLE: |
A facedown mixing of
the cards. |
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SETUP: |
Two suited decks, each
with different colored backs, to replace the current
decks in a game. |
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SIDE POT: |
A separate pot formed
when one or more players are all in. |
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SHORT
BUY: |
A buy-in that is less
than the required minimum buy-in. |
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SHOWDOWN: |
The final act of determining
the winner of the pot after all betting has been
completed. |
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SHUFFLE: |
The act of mixing the
cards before a hand. |
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SMALL
BLIND: |
In a game with multiple
blind bets, the smallest blind. |
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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. |
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SPLITTING
BLINDS: |
When no one else has
entered the pot, an agreement between the big blind
and small blind to each take back their blind bets
instead of playing the deal (chopping). |
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SPLITTING
OPENERS: |
In high draw jacks-or-better
poker, dividing openers in hopes of making a different
type of hand. Example: You open the pot with a pair
of aces. One of your aces is a spade, as are the
three other cards in the hand. If you throw away
the non-spade ace to go for the flush, you announce
to the table, "Splitting openers." |
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STACK: |
Chips in front of a player. |
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Steal
: |
To bet or raise causing
an opponent to fold when you may not hold the best
hand. |
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STRADDLE: |
An additional blind bet
placed after the forced blinds, usually double the
big blind in size or in lowball, a multiple blind
game. |
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STRAIGHT: |
Five cards in consecutive
rank. |
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STRAIGHT
FLUSH: |
Five cards in consecutive
rank of the same suit. |
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STREET: |
Cards dealt on a particular
round in stud games. For instance, the fourth card
in a player's hand is often known as fourth street,
the sixth card as sixth street, and so on. |
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STRING
BET: |
A bet made in more than
one motion, without the declaration of a raise (not
allowed). |
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STUB: |
The portion of the deck
which has not been dealt. |
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SUPERVISOR: |
A cardroom employee qualified
to make rulings, such as a floorperson, shift supervisor,
or the cardroom manager. |
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Suited
: |
Cards are of the same
suit. |
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TABLE
STAKES: |
(1) The amount of money
you have on the table. This is the maximum amount
that you can lose or that anyone can win from you
on any one hand. (
2) The requirement that players can wager only the
money in front of them at the start of a hand, and
can only buy more chips between hands. |
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Tight
: |
Playing fewer hands than
normal. Tight game - A game with less players than
normal in fewer hands. |
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"TIME": |
An expression used to
stop the action on a hand. Equivalent to "Hold
it." |
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TIME COLLECTION: |
A fee for a seat rental,
paid in advance. |
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Top Pair
: |
Pairing the highest card
on the board. |
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TOURNAMENT: |
A poker competition,
normally with an entry fee and prizes. |
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Turn : |
The fourth card dealt
on the board during community card games. |
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TURNCARD: |
The fourth street card
in hold'em or Omaha. |
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UPCARDS: |
Cards that are dealt
faceup for opponents to see in stud games. |
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WAGER: |
(1) To bet or raise.
(2) The chips used for betting or raising. |
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Weak : |
One who folds too many hands. |
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