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This collection of poker - slang, used online at poker tables and in poker rooms will help you as a "poker beginner" but also as a "poker pro" for better understanding the chats and forum discussions. Updates will be done, stay tuned and bookmark this page!

ACTION:

A fold, check, call, bet, raise, or showdown

AGGRESSIVE ACTION:

1. A wager that could enable a player to win a pot without a showdown. 2. A bet or a raise.

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.

ANTE:

A prescribed amount posted before the start of a hand by all players.

BET:

The act of placing a wager in turn into the pot on any betting round, or the chips put into the pot.

BICYCLE:

The best ace-to-five Lowball hand (5-4-3-2-A of any suits). Also called a wheel.

BIG BLIND:

The largest blind in a game.

BLIND:

A required bet made before any cards are dealt.

BLIND BET

BLIND RAISE:

A wager made prior to looking at any of your cards.

BLIND GAME:

A game which utilizes a blind.

BLUFF:

To bet an inferior hand, attempting to eliminate all opponents.

BOARD:

1. A waiting list for players wanting seats in specific games. 2. The five communal cards in Hold'em format games.

BOARDCARDS:

The community cards in the center of the table in Hold'em or Omaha. Also called board.

BOARDPERSON:

A casino employee who puts names of players who are waiting for a game on the board.

BOXED CARD:

A card that appears face up in the deck where all other cards are face down.

BROKEN GAME:

A game no longer in action.

BUG:

Slang term for the joker.

BURN CARD:

After the initial round of cards is dealt, the first card off the deck in each round that is placed under a chip in the pot, for security purposes. To do so is to burn the card; the card itself is called the burn card.

BUTTON:

A player who is in the designated dealer position. See dealer button.

BUTTON GAMES:

Games in which a dealer button is used.

BUY IN:

The minimum amount of money required to enter any game, usually five times the maximum bet.

CAGE:

A cashiers' window located in a casino where chip or money transactions take place.

CALIFORNIA DRAW:

A type of five-card draw high in which jacks or better are not required to open.

CALIFORNIA LOWBALL:

Ace-to-five Lowball with a joker.

CARDS SPEAK:

The face value of a hand in a showdown is the true value of the hand, regardless of a verbal announcement.

CAPPED:

Describes the situation in limit Poker in which the maximum number of raises on the retting round have been reached.

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 AND 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.

CHECKS:

Chips.

COLLECTION:

The "fee" charged for a seat in a game. Collection is taken either by the hand or every half hour, depending on the game.

COLLECTION DROP:

A fee charged for each hand dealt.

COLOR CHANGE:

1. A request to change the deck. 2. A request to change the chips from one denomination to another.

COMMON CARD:

A card dealt face up 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 face up in the center of the table that can be used by all players to form their best had in the games of Hold'em and Omaha.

COMPLETE THE BET:

To increase an all-in bet or forced bet to a full bet in Limit Poker.

CUT:

To divide the deck into two sections in such a manner as to change the order of the cards.

CUT CARD:

Another term for bottom card or security card.

DEAD CARD:

A card that is not legally playable.

DEAD COLLECTION BLIND:

A fee posted by the player having the dealer button, used in some games as an alternative method of seat rental.

DEAD HAND:

A hand that is not legally playable.

DEAD MONEY:

Chips that are taken into the center of the pot because they are not considered part of a particular player's bet.

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.

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). Often called the button.

DECK:

A collection of playing cards. In these games, the deck consists of: A. 52 cards: Seven Card Stud, Hold'em and Omaha. B. 53 cards (including the Joker): Ace-to-five Lowball and Draw Poker.

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.

DOWN CARDS:

Cards that are dealt face down in stud-format games.

DRAW:

The act of taking replacement cards into your hand or the segment of the game at which it is done.

FACE CARD:

A king, queen or jack.

FIXED LIMIT:

In limit Poker, any betting structure in which the amount of the bet on each particular round is predetermined and does not vary.

FLASHED CARD:

A card that is partially exposed.

FLOOR PERSON:

A casino employee who seats players and makes decisions.

FLOP:

In Hold'em or Omaha, the three community cards that are turned simultaneously after the first round of betting is complete.

FOURTH STREET:

The second upcard in Seven-Card stud or the first board card after the flop in Hold'em (also called the turn card).

FOULED HAND:

A dead hand.

FLUSH:

A Poker hand consisting of five cards of the same suit.

FORCED BET:

A required wager to start the action on the first betting round.

FULL BUY:

A buy-in equivalent to at least the minimum requirement for a particular game.

FULL HOUSE:

A hand consisting of three of a kind and a pair.

HAND:

Five cards arranged to crate a ranking in Poker games or all of a player's cards on a particular hand. 2. A single Poker deal and the events that surround it, from the shuffle to the time a winner is determined.

HEADS-UP PLAY:

Only two players involved in a play.

HOLECARDS:

The cards dealt face down to a player.

INSIDE STRAIGHT:

A sequence of four cards that need one card to fill a straight.

INSURANCE:

A side bet to cover a player's risk of losing the pot.

IN TURN:

Describing when it is legally a player's turn to act.

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.

KANSAS CITY LOWBALL:

A form of Draw Poker also known as deuce-to-seven, in which the best hand is 7-5-4-3-2 and straights and flushes count against you.

KICKER:

The highest unpaired card that helps determine the value of a five-card Poker hand.

KILL:

1. A blind doubled in amount in some Lowball games required after you win two pots in a row. 2. An oversized blind increasing the stakes in some high-low split games required from a player who wins both the high and the low end of a pot of a prescribed size. 3. A voluntary blind doubled in amount used to increase the stakes in some Lowball games.

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.

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.)

LEG UP:

Being in a situation equivalent to giving won the previous pot, and thus liable to have to kill the following pot if you win the current pot.

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.

LOWBALL:

A game where the lowest hand wins. The most popular version is ace-to-five Lowball, in which the lowest hand (5-4-3-2-A, called a bicycle or wheel) wins. Ace-to-five Lowball is also called California Lowball.

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.

MISSED BLIND:

A required bet that is not posted when it is your turn to do so.

MUCK:

1. Cards that players have discarded. 2. The unused portion of the deck and cards that players have discarded, gathered face down in the center of the table by the dealer.

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.

NO FLOP

NO DROP

: A collection procedure where if there is no action taken before the Flop, the hand will end, each player receives their blinds back and no collection is taken by the house except for a jackpot collection, if jackpots apply.

NO LIMIT:

A betting structure where players are allowed to wager any or all of their chips in one bet.

OPEN END:

A sequence of four cards, "open" at both "ends", that needs either of two ranks to fill a straight.

OPENER:

The player who made the first voluntary bet.

OPENER BUTTON:

A button used to indicate who opened a particular pot in a Draw game.

OPENERS:

In jacks-or-better, the cards held by the player who opens the pot. Often used in the phrase "show openers". For example, you are first to bet and have a pair of kings; The kings are called your openers.

OPTION:

The choice to raise a bet given to a player with a blind.

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 bet, at which point you must throw your cards away and have no further interest in the pot.

PAT:

Not drawing any cards in a Draw game.

PAT HAND:

A complete five-card hand (such as a straight, flush or full house).

PICTURE CARD:

A king, queen or jack, also called a face card or a paint.

PIP:

The symbol used to represent the rank or suit of a card.

PLAY BEHIND:

A declaration that you will cover bets beyond the amount of the chips in front of you. This differs from table stakes.

PLAYER'S BANK:

Money deposited in the cashier's cage into an account for a player.

PLAYING THE BOARD:

Using all five community cards for your hand in Hold'em.

POSITION:

The distance from the blinds or the button for any hand. The order in which you act in a particular hand.

POT LIMIT:

The betting structure of a game in which you are allowed to bet up to the amount of the pot.

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.

PROP:

See public relations player.

PROPOSITION BETS:

Side bets between players that are not related to the outcome of the hand.

PROPOSITION PLAYER:

See public relations player.

PROTECTED HAND:

A hand of cards that the player is physically holding or has topped with a chip or some other object.

PUBLIC RELATIONS PLAYER:

A house employee who plays in games using his or her own money for the purpose of keeping a short-handed game from breaking up, or to start a new game. Also called prop or proposition player.

PUSH:

When a new dealer replaces an existing dealer at a particular table.

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.

RABBIT HUNTING:

Looking for or asking to see cards that are out of play in order to ascertain what hand you might have made.

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.

RAISE:

To call a previous bet while making an additional bet simultaneously.

RE-RAISE:

An increase in a wager at least the size of the previous bet which occurs after a raise.

RIVER CARD:

The final card in any Poker game.

SAVING BETS:

See Pushing Bets.

SCOOPER:

A player who wins both the high and the low portions of a pot in a split-pot game.

SCRAMBLE:

A face-down mixing of the cards.

SECURITY CARD:

A card used to cover the bottom of the deck, also called a cut card.

SET:

Three of a kind, also called trips.

SETUP:

Two suited decks, each with different colored backs, to replace the current decks in a game.

SIDE POT:

A separate pot formed when one or more players are all-in.

SHORT BUY:

A buy-in that is less than the required minimum buy-in.

SHOWDOWN:

The final act of determining the winner of the pot after all betting has been completed.

SHUFFLE:

The act of randomly 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, wither because of a tie for the best hand or by agreement prior to the showdown.

SPLITTING BLINDS:

When no one else has entered the pot, an agreement between the last two players (big blind and small blind) to take back their blind bets without playing the hand to conclusion.

SPLITTING OPENERS:

In high Draw Poker, dividing openers in hopes of making a different type of hand. For 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".

STACK:

The amount of chips in front of a player.

STRADDLE:

An additional blind bet placed after the forced blinds, usually double the big blind in size or in Lowball, a multiple blind game.

STRAIGHT:

Five consecutive ranks of any suit.

STRAIGHT FLUSH:

Five consecutive ranks of the same suit.

STREET:

Cards dealt on a particular round in stud-format 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.

STRING BET

STRING RAISE:

A bet made in more than one motion, without the declaration of a raise.

STUB:

The portion of the deck which has not been dealt.

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.

TIME:

An expression used to stop the action on a hand.

TIME COLLECTION:

See Collection.

TOURNAMENT:

A competition for players to determine who is the best player.

TURN CARD:

The fourth street card in Hold'em or Omaha.

TRIPS:

Three of a kinds, also called a set.

UP CARDS:

Cards that are dealt face up for opponents to see in stud-format games.

WAGER:

A bet or raise.

WHEEL:

Best ace-to-five Lowball hand (5-4-3-2-A of any suit). Also called a bicycle.

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