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Main Pot The initial pot created during a hand, If a player is all-in at any point in the betting, a second pot is formed from any excess bets not covered by the all-in player. This is known as a 'Side Pot'and would be played for by the other remaining players.
Make a Move To try a bluff or semi-bluff.
Maniac A very aggressive player who will play just about any hand.
Middle Pair In flop games, where a player makes a pair with one of his cards and the middle board card.
Middle Position A player who is in fifth, sixth or seventh position in a round of betting.
Muck To discard your hand. Also the pile of cards that have so far been discarded during the play of a hand.
Monster A very strong hand.
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Narrow The Field A bet or raise which reduces the number of opponents in the hand. A player may try this to scare off other players whose hands are currently worse than his, but have the potential to improve.
No Limit A poker betting structure where players can bet all of their chips in one betting action.
Nuts The best possible hand at any given time.
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Offsuit Cards of different suits, usually referring to the player’s “hole” or “pocket” cards..
Omaha A variation of poker where players receive four hole cards, with five community cards. Your final hand must include two hole and three board cards.
On The Bubble In tournament play, 'On The Bubble' is where a player is eliminated in the final seat before the payout stages are reached. So if a tournament paid out for the first 10 positions, on the bubble would be an 11th place finish.
On the Come Betting without a made hand but with a strong draw to improve.
Open-ended Straight Four consecutive cards, where a fifth card will complete a straight at either end. Eg, 7-8-9-10.
Open Pair A pair dealt face up. This particularly refers to stud games.
Outs The theoretical number of cards available to make your hand. Eg, If you have an open-ended straight draw with 3-4-5-6. There are four Two's and four Seven's left which could arrive, and therefore a total of eight outs.
Overbet When a player makes a disproportionally large bet in No Limit games.
Overcards When your two hole cards are higher than the board cards.
Over Pair When you have a pair that is higher than any of the board cards.
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Paint A name given to all face cards, Jack, Queen & King.
Pair Two cards of the same face value (or rank).
Pass To fold.
Pay Off To call on the final round when you don't have the best hand and 'pay off' the other player's bet.
Picture Cards The Jack, Queen & King.
Pip The suit symbols on a non-court card that indicates its rank.
Play Back When a player re-raises a raiser.
Play The Board When the best hand a player can make is by using all five board cards.
Pocket Cards The down or hole cards.
Pocket Pair When your down cards are paired in Hold'em.
Pocket Rockets A pair of Aces as hole cards.
Position A player's seat in relation to the dealer button and other players.
Post When you place a bet in the pot, most commonly referred to when you must post the blinds.
Pot The chips in the centre of the table that players are trying to win.
Pot Limit A poker betting structure where the maximum bet is the size of the pot. If a player wishes to raise the pot and must first call a bet, the size of the call is included as the pot amount.
Pot Odds The ratio between the amount you need to call or bet, and the sum already in the pot.
Pre-flop The round of betting in flop games, where players have received their down cards but are yet to see any community cards.
Put Down To fold your hand.
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Quads Four of a kind.
Qualifier In high/low games, it is a requirement that the low hand must meet in order to win the low part of the pot, otherwise the whole pot will be paid to the high hand. The usual requirement is to have five unpaired cards ranking lower than a Nine (Ace can count as Low). In some high/low poker games, straights or flushes do not count as a Low hand, whereas in others they do not discredit a low hand.
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Rack A chip tray that will hold 100 chips in stacks of 20.
Rag A low card on the flop that doesn't help your hand and is unlikely to have improved an opponent's hand.
Railbird Spectators around the side of the poker room. Usually seen at bigger poker tournaments, and especially at big TV poker tournaments such as The World Series of Poker, or The World Poker Tour
Rainbow A flop where the card’s suits are all different.
Raise To increase the previous player’s bet.
Rake The amount taken from the pot by the card room as a charge for service provided.
Rank The value of each card and hand.
Razz A version of Seven Card Stud Poker whereby the lowest hand wins. Also known as Lowball Poker.
Read A player, who thinks he knows why another player has made a bet, will be trying to 'read' his actions and mannerisms, to determine his possible pocket cards.
Re-buy When a player is allowed to add chips to his stack in a poker tournament. This is only for a specified time duration called the “re-buy period” and can normally only occur when a player has lost all or at least half of their chips. In online poker it is normally all of their chips, whereas in a land casino it would normally be when the player has half or less of his starting chips remaining.
Represent Betting in such a way as to suggest a particular hand. Eg, If there are four cards of the same suit on the board, a player betting is representing (suggesting) they have a flush.
Re-Raise To raise again after a player has already raised in the same betting round.
Ring Game A cash poker game (or side game) rather than any type of poker tournament. Players may join or leave at any time and can choose how much to sit down with, unlike in a tournament.
River The final community card in Texas Hold'em Poker and Omaha Poker, also known as fifth street, or seventh street in Seven Card Stud Poker.
Rockets Aces.
Rock A player who plays only very good starting poker hands.
Royal Flush An Ace high straight of the same suit, A-K-Q-J-10. The best possible poker hand.
Runner-runner In flop games, this refers to a hand that requires, or hits both the turn and river card to help make their poker hand.
Rush When a player wins many pots close together.
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Satellite A poker tournament in which the prize(s) is an entry to a larger buy-in tournament. A super satellite is a poker tournament with prize(s) to win entry into a satellite.
Scare card A card that is potentially dangerous to either you or your opponent, meaning that you may no longer have the best poker hand.
Second Pair When a player's hole card pairs up with the second highest card on the flop.
See To call the final bet, resulting in a showdown.
Set Three of a kind where you have two of those as down cards.
Seven Card Stud A poker variation where players receive three down cards and four up cards, and must select their best five.
Seventh Street The final round of betting in Seven Card Stud.
Shark A very good poker player.
Showdown When betting is complete and the remaining players turn their cards face up to determine the winner of the pot.
Side Pot When one or more players have gone all-in, they are not entitled to win any money from further bets that take place (as they have not matched them), therefore a separate pot is created for any players remaining in the pot who still have chips. If more than one player is all-in whilst other players still have chips, multiple side pots can occur.
Sixth Street In Seven Card Stud Poker, this is the fourth round of betting which occurs after the players have received their sixth card (fourth up card).
Slowplay When a player checks or calls a very strong poker hand to represent weakness in the hope of inducing more betting from opponents.
Solid A player who plays a good all round poker game.
Small Blind The player who must enter the first compulsory bet to the left of the dealer button in Hold'em or Omaha poker.
Speed Limit A pair of Fives.
Split Pot When two players have the same hand, the pot is divided equally between the two.
Steal A player may successfully 'steal the pot' by executing a bluff which does not get called. 'Stealing the blinds' refers to a raise pre-flop, usually from the button, purely with the intent of pressuring the players in the 'blinds' to fold, and therefore pick up the pot.
Steel Wheel A five high straight (A-2-3-4-5) of the same suit.
Straddle A voluntary bet placed prior to the deal, that is double the Big Blind, to stimulate greater action.
Straight Five consecutive cards of any suit.
Straight Flush Five consecutive cards of the same suit.
String Bet An illegal bet in which a player puts some chips in the pot, then reaches back to his stack for more, without having first verbally stated the full amount of his bet.
Structure The value of blinds, antes, and bets and limit raises in games, and limit raises and payouts in tournaments.
Stud Games A poker variant where players have down and up cards with no community cards.
Suck Out To win a hand by hitting a very weak draw, often with poor pot odds.
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Tell An involuntary gesture, or predictable betting pattern that allows a player to 'read' another.
Texas Hold'Em See 'Hold'Em'
Third Street In Seven Card Stud or Seven Card Stud 8 or better, the first round of betting after the third card.
Three of a Kind Three cards of the same value
Tight A player who plays very few hands.
Tilt When a player starts playing recklessly, usually after suffering a bad beat, or string of beats.
Top Pair When one of your hole cards matches the highest card on the board.
Trap To check on your turn to play in the hope that someone with a weaker hand will bet or raise behind.
Trips Three of a kind, when one card is your down card and the other two are on the board.
Turn In flop games this is the fourth card dealt, and the third round of betting.
Two Pair A hand made up of two different pairs.
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Under Pair When you have a pair in the hole that is lower than any of the cards on the board.
Under Raise To raise less than the previous bet, and only permissable if a player is going all-in.
Up Card Any card that is dealt face up.
Under The Gun The first player to act initially to the left of the blinds.
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Walking Sticks A pair of sevens
Wild Card A card that can be played as any value.
Wired Pair Another term for a pocket pair.
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