| All In: |
When a Player
puts the last of their Chips into a Pot, that Player is said
to be All-in. |
| Ante: |
A small, forced
Bet that everyone at the Table is required to pay before
each Hand (in games with an Ante). |
| Back Door: |
A hand-made Back
Door is made using both of the last two cards, as in Seven
Card Stud or Texas Hold'em. |
| Bankroll: |
The total amount
of money one is willing (and able) to put at risk |
| Blind Bet: |
A Blind Bet, or
Blind, is a forced Bet that must be posted before you see
any cards. |
| Bluff: |
A Bet with a weak
Hand (typically a Busted Hand), usually intended to get other
Players to Fold. |
| Boat: |
Another name for
a Full House. |
| Broadway: |
An Ace High Straight. |
| Bullets: |
A Pair of Aces
in the Hole. |
| Bump: |
To Raise. |
| Bust: |
To run out of
money, especially in a Tournament. |
| Buy: |
To Buy a Pot is
to make a Bet large enough that other Players would be unlikely
to Call. |
| Call: |
To Call is match
the current Bet. |
| Catch: |
When the cards
are treating you well, you are said to be Catching Cards. |
| Check: |
If there has been
no betting before you in a betting round, you may Check,
which is like Calling a Bet of $0, or passing your turn. |
| Chip: |
Poker Chips are
small round discs used instead of money at the Poker Table. |
| Coffee-house: |
To talk about
a Hand one is involved in, usually with the intent of misleading
or manipulating other Players, is Coffee-housing. |
| Cowboy: |
A nickname for
a King, more often heard in the plural. |
| Cut: |
After the Cards
are shuffled but before they are dealt, usually the deck
is split in the middle and the halves are reversed. |
| Door card: |
The first Card
dealt face up to each Player in Seven Card Stud is the Door
Card. |
| Drop: |
To Fold. Also,
to lose a particular amount of money. |
| Fast: |
To play Fast is
to play aggressively. |
| Fishhook: |
A nickname for
a Jack, more often heard in the plural. |
| Flop: |
A number of games,
such as Hold'Em and Omaha, are played with 5 Community Cards. |
| Fold: |
To abandon your
Hand, usually because someone else has made a larger Bet
than you are willing to Call. |
| Four Flush: |
A Hand with four
Cards of the same Suit. |
| Four of a kind: |
Four Cards of
the same Rank. |
| Full House: |
A Hand consisting
of three Cards of one Rank and two Cards of another Rank. |
| Gut-shot: |
An Inside Straight
draw. |
| Heads Up: |
A play between
only two Players. |
| High: |
The high Hand
is simply the best Hand. |
| It: |
Refers to the
largest amount anyone has yet played in a Round. |
| Kansas City: |
Kansas City Lowball
is a low game played for a deuce to seven low. |
| Live card: |
A Card that has
not been seen. |
| Lock: |
A Hand that is
guaranteed to win at least part of the Pot. |
| Make: |
To (non-specifically)
make a Hand means to get a decent Hand that has a shot at
winning the Pot. |
| Maniac: |
A Player who plays
extremely loose and aggressive, often raising with just about
anything. |
| Omaha: |
Omaha is a Flop
game similar to Hold'em. |
| Outs: |
A Card that will
improve your Hand, usually one that you think will make you
a winner. |
| Paint: |
A King, Queen
or Jack (i.e. a card with a picture on it). |
| Passive: |
A style of play
that is characterized by reluctance to Bet or Raise. |
| Pineapple: |
Any of a number
of variants of Hold'em in which each Player gets three Cards
and must Discard one at some point. |
| Pushka: |
An arrangement
between two or more of the Players to share part of the Pots
win, or more precisely, the container into which the shared
Chips are played. |
| Quads: |
Four of a Kind. |
| Rag: |
A Card, usually
a Low Card that, when it appears, has no apparent impact
on the Hand. |
| Rainbow: |
Three or four
Cards of different Suits, for example on a Flop. |
| Raise: |
After someone
has Opened Betting in a Round, to increase the amount of
the Bets to Raise. |
| Rolled Up: |
In Seven Card
Stud, Three of a Kind on the first three Cards are called
rolled up X's, where X is the Rank of the Cards. |
| Round: |
A Round can refer
either to a Round of Betting or a Round of Hands. |
| Royal Flush: |
An Ace High Straight
Flush is a Royal Flush, or just a Royal. |
| Semi-bluff: |
A Semi-bluff is
similar to a Bluff, except that the Semi-bluff has some chance
of making a Winning Hand. |
| Seven Card Stud: |
Of the Poker games
most commonly played in public card room, Seven Card Stud
is probably the most well known. In this game, each Player
is dealt seven Cards of their own: two down, then four up,
and a final Card down. |
| Sir: |
One of those confusing
terms that can have a completely different meaning at the
Poker Table than elsewhere. If someone says "nice hand,
sir," after you win a big Pot, what they're really saying
is "congratulations on winning money through your own
stupidity, you clueless moron." |
| Snap Off: |
To beat someone,
often a bluffer, and usually with a not especially powerful
Hand, is to snap them off. |
| Speed: |
Speed refers to
the level of aggressiveness with which you play. |
| Straight Flush: |
A Hand consisting
of five Cards of consecutive ranks of the same Suit. |
| Suit: |
The Suit of a
Card is Clubs, Diamonds, Hearts, Spades. |
| Texas Hold'em: |
Texas Hold'em
(or just Hold'em) is a Poker game in which each Player gets
two Pocket Cards, while five Community Cards are dealt face
up on the Table. |
| Underdog: |
When two Hands
face off, the Underdog is the one that's less likely to win
than the other. |
