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Poker Dictionary Aces Full A full house with 3 aces and a pair. Ace High The best hand out there is only composed of the Ace being the high card. Action Your turn to act in the hand. When there is a lot of betting and raising. "There's a lot of action in this game”. Add-on To purchase more chips in a no limit tournament. All-In To push all your chips into the game. Used in No Limit Texas Holdem. American Airlines Pocket Aces. Backdoor To make a hand you didn't expect to make by catching 2 cards that you needed to complete the hand. (i.e. In Texas Holdem, if you have one spade and there are 2 on the flop and there are spades on both the turn and the river, then you have made a flush back door. (Also called Runner Runner) Bad Beat When the odds were stacked against the other player and he won anyway. Belly Buster A straight, made in the middle. (i.e. if you hold J/10, and the flop is 8/7/2 and the turn is a 9). Bicycle A straight, running from ace to 5. Big Slick Ace and King as hole cards. Blind A forced bet to create action. Bankroll A poker player's money. Most players have a certain amount set aside just for playing poker. Blind Raise Raising without looking at your cards. Bullets Pocket Aces Bump A Raise. Buy-in The amount of money or chips you initially buy to play. Call To match the amount of money the better put in the pot. Cap The last raise that can be put into a round. Cash Out To quit and take the chips you've got and turn them into cash. Chop To split the pot because you have the same hand. Cold Call To call more than 1 bet. (i.e. If a player bets, there is a raise and you call both bets. You have cold called the bet). Counterfeit When your hand is less valuable because of a card that comes. (i.e. If you have bottom 2 pair in Holdem and the board pairs the top pair which means you now only have middle pair). Cowboys Pocket Kings. Check To decide to not bet when it is your turn to act. Check Raise To decide not to bet but then when it is bet and it is your turn again to raise. Generally considered a tricky play, but it can earn you plenty of extra chips. Cracked To beat a hand or player. Dead Man's Hand 2 pairs, Aces and eights. Wild Bill Hickock was shot in the back while playing this hand. Dominated Hand A hand, which if played has significant odds against it to win if the other player has a likely hand. (i.e .if you have Ace/Jack it is considered a dominated hand because it will usually lose to Ace/Queen, Ace/King, or any pair of Kings, Aces, or Jacks). Doyle Brunson 10 2. Doyle Brunson won the WSOP 2 times in a row with this hand. Drawing Dead To be drawing to a hand, which won't make the best hand. (i.e. drawing to a straight when your opponent has a flush). A terrible feeling in poker. Drawing to the dummy end of a straight To draw to the bottom end of a straight. (Ie. You hold 6, 7 and the flop is 8, 9, A. Your straight is the dummy end if you make it. Early Position Position in poker where the player must act before the others. Considered the first 2 people to act. Fifth Street The last card to come in Texas Holdem poker. Otherwise known as ‘the river’. Filipino Big slick 3, 5 suited. Fish A bad player. Goes fishing for cards and generally loses quickly. Spot them as early as you can. Flop The first 3 cards to come in Texas Holdem poker. Flush 5 cards of the same suit. Fourth Street The card after the flop. Also called ‘the turn’. Free Card When there is no bet in a round and so all players in the hand get to see the next card without calling a bet. Full House 3 of a kind and a pair. Gutshot Straight A straight made in the middle. (i.e. if you hold J/10, and the flop is 8/7/2 and the turn is a 9). The 9 would give you ‘the gutshot straight’. Heads up Only 2 people in the pot or game. High – Low Poker games where the best and worst poker hands split the pot. Hit To help your hand by hitting something you hoped for. Holdem Texas Holdem Poker. 2 cards are dealt face down to each player and 5 cards are shared for the best hand. Hole cards The two initial cards dealt face down to you in Texas Holdem. Japanese big slick 9, 7 suited. Keep them honest To call a hand, just to ensure a player won't bluff you in the future. Kicker The unpaired card used to determine the winner if you both have the same pair. (i.e. if I have A/K and the flop is A, 3, 4. I have a king kicker.) Ladies Pocket queens. Limit Poker A poker game with a limit on how much you can bet each round. Limp in To just call coming into a pot rather than raise. Used in Texas Holdem when a player comes into the pot and just calls the big blind rather than raise. Live Hand A hand that can win the pot. Live one/Live player A player who is poor and plays too many hands. Loose To play too many hands. Also used to describe a game in which players are playing too many hands and not being patient. Maniac An extremely aggressive player who plays a lot of hands. Middle Position In a poker game, this area sits between the first to act and the last to act, including the blinds. Generally seats 5-7 in Texas Holdem. Monster A very big hand. Muck To fold. Also the pile of folded and unused cards the dealer collects. No Limit A game where you can bet as many chips are you have in front of you. Nuts The absolute best hand. Cannot be beaten. A dream. Off-suit Cards that are not of the same suit. Omaha A poker game where players are dealt 4 cards and there are 5 community cards. Players must use 2 from their hand. Open-End straight Four consecutive cards where you need 1 more to make a straight. (i.e. you have 5, 6, the flop comes 4, 7, A – you have cards to hit at both ends of your straight, the 3 or 8). Overpair A pair higher than the board. (i.e. you have QQ and the flop shows 3, 9, 9). Pigeon A bad player. Pocket pair When you have a pair in the 2 cards you hold that no one can see. Pocket Rockets Pocket Aces. Pot The amount of money available to win. Pot Limit A poker game where you can bet up to what is currently in the pot. Prop A person hired by the casino to play in order to keep the game going. Rack A tray that holds 100 chips. 5 rows of 20 chips. Raise To increase the amount of chips to see another card, after another player has already bet. Re-Raise To raise back at a player who has just raised Rake The amount the poker roon takes for commission. Rainbow A flop with all different suits. Rags A bad hand or card. Ring Game A live game, not a tournament. River The last community card to come followed by the last round of betting. Rounders Players who make a living player poker. Royal Flush A flush which is also a straight - Ace to ten. The best possible hand in poker. Runner, Runner To make a hand you didn't expect to make by catching 2 cards that you needed to complete the hand. (i.e.. In Texas Holdem, if you have one spade and there are 2 on the flop and there are spades on both the turn and the river, then you have caught runner, runner or a running flush. (Also called Back Door) Semi-bluff To bet or raise when you don't think you have the best hand but have the potential make the best hand if called. Showdown When there is more than one player to show their cards at the end of the final betting round. Solid A decent player. Side Pot If a player with a shorter stack of chips goes all in and other players with more chips want to continue to bet/raise. This is the amount the all in player cannot win because he did not have enough chips to call. Set 3 of a kind, when you have the pair in your hand. Slow play To not play your strong hand aggressively in hopes that your opponent will bet and allow you to win more chips. Straight Five running cards (i.e. 5, 6, 7, 8, 9) Suited Connectors Starting hands which are one apart (i.e.. 9/10 or 5/6). Suited connectors means they are also of the same suit. Tell A clue about a player's holdings. Texas Holdem Also called Holdem. The poker game where players are dealt 2 cards face down, then 5 community cards are dealt and shared by all players. Tight When players are waiting for good cards. Can also be used to describe a game in which players aren't playing many hands. Tilt Being ‘on tilt’, means you are playing hands you normally wouldn't, due to anger, fear, intimidation or other circumstances. Tough A good player. Turn The card after the flop. Also called Fourth Street. Under the Gun The player first to act after the big blind. Value A bet because you have the best hand. (i.e. A value bet). Can also be done without the best hand but because you are getting the rightodds on your hand becoming the best. WPT World Poker Tour WSOP World Series of Online Poker
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