View All Definitions POKER GLOSSARY An ABC player is a player who is very predictable.

This player generally ABC Player reads a poker book or two and follows them to the word. They always play hands the same way and are generally pretty tight. These types of players are often winners at lower stakes and loose games but are easily crushed by advanced players. See also: nit. Ace High A hand with no pairs and an Ace high card. This hand beats all other hands with no high cards, and is a possible winner in a heads-up or very short game. Also known as: Cowboys. Pocket kings. agn ets Ace with a weak kicker. Ace Rag Aces !" Two pair, with one one pair being aces. or e!ample, if someone holds A" and the board is A#"$%, that person has &aces up& since they hold a two pair of aces and 'acks. Betting, raising, and calling. A game with a lot of action is a game in which a lot of money is changing hands. These are good games to seek, because the more money moves, the more opportunity you have to win money. Ace-"ack starting hand. Action #ac$s on A%&ertise (hen a player advertises, he plays in a different fashion from his usual strategy in order to confuse his opponents. A player will generally alter their strategy so that they play more loose and are more apt to be paid off by their opponents when they hold a strong hand. )!ample* +e is normally is not a loose player, he is 'ust advertising by showing down those bad hands. See also: bluff. A player who bets and raises a lot when he has a good hand. Aggressi&e See also: Passive, Tight, ,oose. A'a( All Paint All)*n Also known as: Black'ack. The hold-em starting hand Ace-"ack .A"/ An &all paint& is a situation in which the board is made up of 'acks, 0ueens, kings or aces. Also known as: Going All-In. To bet all your chips, or to call with all your chips. 1f another player bets

Ace

Action

more chips than you have in a 2o ,imit game, you can go all-in and stake your total stack against an e0uivalent amount of your opponent-s stack. See also: 3idepot. 4sed to describe a player who plays fearlessly when short-stacked and wins, or optionally, a player who plays for a long time short-stacked, Alligator Bloo% winning 'ust enough to keep them in the game. A+erican Airlin es Anna Ko,rn i$o&a Ante A small amount of chips placed into the pot before each hand. This acts as a &ta!& for playing hands and is usually used in 3tud games, whereas +old-em games usually have blinds. An a0uarium is a poker room or game that has a lot of fish in it. See also: ish. 6uring tournament play, a player on a lucky streak who eliminates several7all opponents from play. 3hort for &any two cards&. A.C A(s A!s is a poker abbreviation for Ace-8 suited. 1t means to hold an ace and a low card of the same suit. The other card is generally 9 or below. or e!ample, a hand of A: of clubs would fall into the category of A!s. Also known as: 5ockets, Pocket 5ockets. A hand with two aces in the hole .AA/

A#. Because it looks pretty but it never wins.

A-,ari,+ Assassin

Three suited cards to a flush. or e!ample, if you hold Ah ;h and the flop is #h ;d $c. <ou have three hearts, so you will hit a flush if you hit Bac$%oor /l,sh a heart on the turn and the river. Draw Ba% Beat A bad beat is a loss in which the losing player had the better odds on the winning player earlier in the hand. 1n general, the term is used when all the chips go in the pot when the losing player had odds. To take a bad beat means to be on the losing end of a bad beat= to lay a bad beat means to be on the winning end of a bad beat. See also: Take a Bad Beat, Lay a Bad Beat. Two two-s in your hand Ballerina Base0all Bas$in Ro00i A > and 9 as your hole cards. Based on the well-known poker game with >-s and 9-s wild. Too bad they-re not wild in hold-em ?/. The +old-em starting hand Ace-Three.. >@ lavors */

ns 3hort for big blind or big bet BB Beer Han% Aenerally a B-$ offsuit, although some consider the B-$ suited to be a beer hand as well. B-$ Time for a beer Considered the worst starting hand in hold em Also known as: Autshot. Belly B,ster An inside straight draw, synonym of gutshot. Bet To put chips into the pot. Cther players must either Call your bet, 5aise you, or old. See also: Call, 5aise, old.

Also known as: Pot-Sized Bet. Bet the Pot To bet an amount of chips appro!imately e0ual to the amount of chips in the pot. 1n Pot ,imit games, this is the ma!imum bet= however, the pot siDe in Pot-,imit games is calculated in an unintuitive way* All the money in the pot, plus .if you have been raised/ the amount you would bet if you reraised. Bicycle Also known as: (heel. The poker hand AB>%E. This is the lowest possible straight. See also: Royal. The larger bet in a fi!ed-limit game. or e!ample, in a F@G-FBG game, the F@G bet is the small bet and the FBG bet is the big bet. The larger of the two forced bets preflop. The person in second position posts the big blind, which is e0uivalent to a small bet. See also: 3mall Blind, Blinds. The big blind special is a term referring to when the big blind wins a hand with a very bad starting hand because he saw the flop for free.

Big Bet Big Blin%

Big Blin% s"eci (hen nobody raises the big blind, the big blind is able to see the flop al without having to call a bet. 3ince the big blind-s hand is random, he-ll often have a realy bad hand like >; offsuit. This player sometimes ends up winning the hand by hitting a lucky flop. or e!ample, the big blind has $sBh and everyone else limps in. The flop is $d$hBc, giving him a full house, and almost certainly the best hand. See also: big blind, limp in. +ole Cards* Cne Ace, Cne Hueen Big Chic$ A hand with an ace and a king in the hole .A#/. Big Slic$

Binary is one-s and Dero-s Binary The +oldem 3tarting +and $B. Bir% on a Stic$ Blac$'ac$ Blan$ The hold-em starting hand Ace-"ack .A"/. 2amed after the popular casino game. A card that means nothing to anyone-s hand. or e!ample, in a hold-em game if the board is* As #s "d ;h, if a >c came on the river, the >c is considered a blank considered a blank. These are the forced bets that take the place of an ante. The person to the left of the dealer must pay the small blind and the person after him must pay the big blind. To bluff means to make a bet that you hope is not called by your opponents. The aim of a bluff is to win a pot because everyone else folds. See also: 3emi-Bluff. The cards in the middle of the table that are shared by everyone. Boar% Car%s Boat Also known as: ull Boat, ull +ouse. A ull +ouse.

Blin%s

Bl,ff

&A king without a kicker.& 1t is named after lorida 3tate 4niversity-s football coach, the winningest coach in college football. 34 has lost a Bo00y Bow% few games in recent years by missing a field goal. en Bot A bot is a computer program that plays poker. Bots are highly controversial since they are seen as a threat to online poker. 1f there were too many successful bots, the games would become incredibly difficult to beat. Bots are against the terms and conditions of online poker rooms, and poker rooms will shut down players they suspect to be bots. See also: Collusion. Also known as: Third Pair. Botto+ Pair A Pair consisting of the lowest card on the lop and one of your hole cards. See also: Top Pair, Middle Pair. Brea$ Betting a strong hand very forcefully in order to win a huge pot. Cften, this means you will put your opponent all-in. This also can mean killing another player-s spirits by beating him or her into submission. or e!ample, if a player consistently loses over a night and loses a lot of his7her money, that player may be considered -broken.See also: 3ell.

Bric$

Also known as: blank. A card that shouldn-t help others hands or complete their draws.

This refers to a land-based casino such as the ones on the Iegas strip. See also: Cnline Poker. Bric$ an% orta r Broa%way Brothers B,00le Broadway means a straight from ten to ace. This is the best possible straight. Also known as: hooks. Pair of "acks in +old-em starting hand. The bubble refers to the placings in a tournament that are close to winning priDe money but do not receive any money. or e!ample, if @GG people enter a tournament and the tournament pays out money to the top @E players, someone busting out around @:th or so would be said to have busted out on the bubble. (hen the tournament is at the stage near the bubble, players tend to tighten up a lot because they do not want to bust out and not receive any money. Aggressive players often take advantage of this situation and steal a lot of pots. A pocket pair of fours. B,c$ets B,llets B,rn B. .Ierb/ - To burn a Card. The card that is placed down is termed the -burned7burnt card-. B,tton At most casinos, the players themselves do not deal the cards. Therefore, a button is used to indicate who is in the dealer-s seat. )!cept in the preflop round, the player who is on the button acts last in a round of betting. To place an amount of chips in the pot e0ual to the previous bet. 1t is necessary to at least call a bet to stay in the game= the other options are to raise or fold. See also: Bet, 5aise, old. Also known as: 5ockets, American Airlines. Pocket Aces. @.To place a card down prior to dealing the flop,turn and river.

Call

Also known as: Loose-Passive, Poli e!an. Type of player who will call a lot. They do not think about other people-s Calling Statio hands, but rather 'ust want to see if their hand will win. They do not bluff much and are not aggressive= they 'ust call a lot. n Another term for pocket sevens in Te!as +old-em. Can%y Canes

The hold-em starting hand #ing-2ine .#9/. Canine Ca" 1n ,imit, to make the ma!imum amount of raises allowed in a betting round. A common cap seen in internet games is % bets per round .in other words, one bet and three raises/. The case .!/ refers to the last card available of that rank in the deck. or e!ample, if 1 hold pocket tens and the board is TAA% and a ten comes on the river, that final card is considered the case ten.

case

Also known as: 5ing Aame. Cash Ga+e This is the typical, non-tournament poker game where players buy-in and cash out as they please. Chase Also known as: 6raw. To call in the hopes of hitting a draw. This word often connotes that someone is a calling station and will call even with bad odds. To not put any chips into the pot, to decline to bet. 1f it is your turn to act, and there is no bet to you, you may check instead of betting. +owever, if there is a bet to you, then you must call, raise, or fold. See also: Call, Bet, 5aise, old.

Chec$

To check with the intention of raising your opponent-s bet. This is a Chec$)Raise techni0ue used to get more money into the pot .two bets instead of one/, and is more effective at ,imit Poker than at 2o ,imit See also: Bet, 5aise, Check. Chi" +agn et Chi" San% wich A chop essentially means to split the pot. 1t can be used in two situations* Cho" @. 1f everyone folds to the blinds, the blinds may elect to have the blind money returned to them and proceed to the ne!t hand. B. A chop can refer to 'ust splitting the pot between the players. )ither the players hands are tied or the players agree to simply split the pot in half instead of seeing whose hand wins .this occurs rarely and only if the pot is very large and the players hands are of almost e0uivalent value/. Col% Call This means to call a bet and a raise. An e!ample would be if it is preflop and you are in late position, a person in earlier position raises the blinds and you call two bets flat. See also: Call, 5aise. 1f an early position player raises and gets called .called but not raised/ by one or more later players, you can &sandwich& the callers by reraising. A player who is a large chip leader, or who has won several hands recently. Pun from the term &chick magnet&.

A player who is receiving cold cards is usually an e!perienced rounder Col% Car%s who is having bad luck due to a long running string of bad cards. A

similar e!ample is a writer who is e!periencing &writers block&. Coll,sion Collusion is a form of cheating. Players will work in a team to try to gain an advantage over the other players. They will somehow signal to each other what their cards are. They will then use this information to gain an unfair advantage. Collusion is illegal. 1t is sometimes hard for brick and mortar cardrooms to detect colluders, but online poker rooms can track potential colluders becasue they can review hand histories. % and E of spades Colt 12 Also known as: Board Cards. Co++,nity Car%s A starting hand that, on average, is the median of all other hands. H $ Co+",ter Han% Connecte% (hen your hole cards are consecutive, .;9, %E, etc. (hen someone is suited and connected they are holding consecutive cards of the same suit, .Hs"s, Bd>d/

3ometimes a card will come on the board that will hurt your hand Co,nterfeit because it makes previously valuable cards in your hand communal property. or e!ample, suppose you hold A9 in a game of Te!as +old-em. The board is E:$;. <ou hold a straight to the 9J +owever, if the final card on the river comes a 9, your hand is counterfeited. 2ow, everyone has a straight to the nine. Being counterfeited occurs a lot in Cmaha +i-,o. Kany times people-s lows are counterfeited by the board. 3uppose you hold AA#B. The board is >:$H. <ou hold the nut low .AB>:$/. +owever, if the river comes a B, you no longer hold the nut low. <our low is AB>:$ still. +owever, someone with A% in their hand will have you beat with a low of AB>%:. Cow0oys Cra0s C,toff Dea% Car% Dea% @. +olding two pair of aces and eights. ,egendary lawman and gambler an3s (ild Bill +ickok was shot to death while holding this hand. Han% B. .,ess common/ A hand in Te!as +old -)m consisting of a B $ offsuit. This is considered the worst hand in Te!as +old -)m. An ine!perienced player who has virtually no shot at winning a oney tournament. Their chips are said to be &dead money.& The seat in front of the button, i.e., the last player to act before the button does. A card that is deemed not playable. 5eference to holding pocket kings .##/ as a starting hand in Te!as +old-em. To get dealt pocket >-s.

Dea%

Dealer

The 6ealer is the person who deals the cards in a card game. 1n +old-em the player in the dealer position is the last person to act. Because of this he has an information advantage, because he knows what all other players will do before he has to act. 1n online and casino poker games there is a dealer button which marks the player who acts as the dealer or is in the dealer potion, since the real card dealer does not participate in the game. 1n home poker games the dealer often participates in the game.

Dee" Stac$ e%

To play with a large stack of chips over and above the level re0uired for a particular limit.

Also known as: "ot Seat, L# ky Seat. Destiny Seat A position that wins regardless of what Lhole cardsM the player has. (ins all hands played, even with ridiculously inferior odds. ,ays Lbad beatsM and causes LtiltM in players. Di+e Dog Aambler slang for F@,GGG. See also: 2ickel. Also known as: Canine. 3hort for underdog. 1t means to be mathematically less favored to win the pot. Also known as: A0uarium. a +old-em table comprised of a ma'ority of novice players .calling stations/ who show a disregard for raises and call with any two cards .especially preflop, but also during any betting stage/. The table has no folding e0uity. (ith every pot being a multi-way or family pot, every player in a hand is a dog, and every hand is 'ust a race to the river. .also called a &6og Track& because it is the style of reckless poker played in poker-rooms at dog-tracks/ See also: calling station, dog. Dollar Dolly Parton Do+inate% 1n +old-em, a hand that is similar to another hand but has a lower kicker. or e!ample, AH dominates A; because even if an ace come, AH still has a better hand. To win, the person with A; would need to hit an ; without the other player hitting a 0ueen or would need to hit a weird straight or flush. 3omeone whose hand is dominated has few outs and thus little chance to win. See also: outs. A &donkey& is a derogatory term for a bad player. See also: ish. A dollar is gambling slang for a F@GG bet. See also: 2ickel, 6ime. A +old -)m hand of 9-E .for her movie of same name/.

Dog .rac$

Don$ey

Door Car% Do,0le !" Down Car% Doyle Br,ns on Draw

This is a player-s first e!posed -up- card in seven card stud. See also: 6own Card. To double the siDe of your chip stack on a single hand. .This is typically done by going All 1n against another player and winning the hand./ Also known as: +ole Card. The +old-em 3tarting +and Ten-Two .TB/. 6oyle Brunson won the (3CP two years in a row with this hand.

6rawing means hoping to improve your hand with the cards that will come on the board. <ou are on a draw when you want other cards to come out on the board to complete your hand. 1f you have @G 9 and the flop is H"B, you are trying to draw an eight or a king on the turn or river.

6rawing to a hand that will lose even if you hit your draw. or e!ample, if you have a flush draw but your opponent already has a full house, you Drawing Dea% are drawing dead. Drawo,t Also known as: Bad Beat. (hen someone hits a draw against you to win the hand. See also: 6raw. Also known as: $de# es$. A pocket pair of two-s, also known as deuces. These are the people in the small blind, big blind, and under the gun positions. These players have to act earlier during betting rounds after Positi the flop. See also: Kiddle Position, ,ate Position. on 3hort for early position. EP )uropean Poker Tour. EP. 3hort for e!pected value EV E("ecte% Val,e This is a mathematical term that is highly relevant to poker. )!pected Ialue is how much you e!pect to win on a hand in the long run. or e!ample, suppose you have a EGN chance of winning a F@B pot. 3ometimes you will win F@B and sometimes you will win FG. +owever, your e!pected value is F:. The way you calculate e!pected value is .percentage chance of winning O pot siDe/. or more information, please read this article. )!pected value is central to the concept of pot e0uity

D,c$s Early

/a+ily Pot

Also known as: M#lti-way Pot. (hen more than three players are contending for a pot, the pot is often considered a family pot. These pots often occur when there are many fish at the table, and the game is very loose.

Also known as: 5iver. /ifth Street Also known as the river /ish A fish is a bad player, who often loses a lot of money. See also: ,ive Cne, Kaniac, Calling 3tation.

A fish that, through his own ineptitude coupled with sheer luck, somehow has all the chips. These players will often lure a cirlce of /ish an% Chi"s hungry sharks looking to get a cheap and tasty meal. Pocket 'acks /ishhoo$s /i&e of a Kin% A poker hand consisting of five cards of the same rank. This is only possible when playing with wild cards. See also: our of a #ind, Three of a #ind.

Also known as: ,imit Poker. /i(e%)Li+it i!ed-,imit is another way to say ,imit Poker. There are set bets. or e!ample, in a F>-F: game, the bets and raises preflop and on the flop are F> each, and the bets and raises on the river are F: each. See also: %o-Li!it, Pot-Li!it. /lat .ire "ack and our suited or not. As in, &1f you have a flat tire, it-s what you use the 'ack &four&. Also know to deflate bad player-s stacks. See also: ull )mployment. (hen a player catches the miracle card he7she needs to win on the river. /loat the Boat The first three board cards in +oldem. /lo" /l,sh A poker hand consisting of E cards of the same suit. See also: 3traight lush, 5oyal lush.

(hen a player has four cards in his hand of the same suit and is hoping /l,sh Draw to draw a fifth to make a flush. See also: 6raw. /ol% To not match the bet in the pot and to thus forfeit the hand. The player throws the hand into the muck and is out of the hand. <ou should fold when you think you will lose the hand. See also: Kuck. The value that comes from the possibility that other players will fold when you make a bet. or e!ample* 1t is often better to make a bet than call a bet because betting has folding e0uity, whereas calling does not.

/ol%ing E-,it y

The hold-em starting hand of our-#ing .%#/. /or$ing *%iot /o,r of a Kin% Also known as: Huads. A poker hand consisting of four cards of the same rank and one other card. See also: Three of a #ind, Pair. Also known as: The T#rn. Also known as the turn A free card refers to seeing the turn or river card without having to make7call a bet. )!ample* 3uppose you have a T9 of spades, and you are on the button. The flop is A#%= the ace and king are of spades. 1t is checked to you, and you check as well. The turn comes. The turn card is a free card= you did not have to call a bet to see if you would complete your flush draw on the turn. /reeroll Kost often, a freeroll refers to a touranment with no entry free. These sorts of tournaments are generally promotions run by poker rooms to attract customers. or e!ample, a FEGGG freeroll means that the poker room is putting up FEGGG in priDe money for a tournament, and there is no entry fee into the tournament. A freeroll can also be used in reference to a poker game. 1t occurs when two players with the same hand are against each other. +owever, one player will have a draw to a stronger hand, and the other player will not. or e!ample, suppose "oe has H" of spades and Bob has H" of diamonds. The board is A#T, with the ace and king of spades, and the ten of clubs. This means both "oe and Bob have a straight. +owever, "oe also has a draw to a flush. This means that either "oe and Bob will tie for the pot or "oe will win. 1n this case, "oe is considered to have a freeroll. Also known as: ull +ouse, Boat. /,ll Boat /,ll E+"l oy+e nt /,ll Ho,se Ga+0ler -1t can mean anyone who wagers money. -1t can be synonymous with a maniac. Cften, people who en'oy drawing, Also known as: Boat, ull Boat. A poker hand consisting of a three-of-a-kind and a pair. A gambler can mean many things* The starting hand "ack %. 2amed full employment because if you play "ack % you-ll always have a day 'ob.

/o,rth Street /ree Car%

even with bad odds are called gamblers. These types of gamblers are considered fish. -1t can mean a professional, solid poker player. According to 6oyle Brunson, a gambler is the nickname of the highest breed of poker player. They can win significant amounts of money at high stakes games. See also: 5ounder, Arinder, Kaniac. Ga" The gap concept is a term coined by 6avid 3klansky. 1t is a tournament strategy concept relating to the idea that it takes a stronger hand to call a Conc raise preflop than to make the original raise. 1n essence, there is a &gap& between the hands that can make a raise and hands that can call a raise. e"t 1n a tournament, stealing the blinds holds a lot of value. Thus, one can be fairly liberal with raising the pot pre-flop in order to make a steal. +owever, to call a bet re0uires a much better hand because you can not win the hand preflop uncontested. A starting hand consisting of a Hueen and Three . a 0ueen with a &tray&/ Gay 4aiter Also known as: (ayne AretDky. Two nines .99/ as a starting hand is called Aerman Iirgin, because the Ger+an Virgin )nglish number &nine&, sounds like the Aerman word &nein&, which means &no& in )nglish. 3o when you say &nine, nine& it sounds like you s say &no, no& in Aerman. The rest, why it is called Aerman Iirgin, 1 won-t e!plain here and it is up to you to figure that outJ Acronym used by many players for &good game&. GG +ole cards of % $, suited or not. Ghost Dog a flush of clubs Golf Bag Grin%er Also known as: 5ounder. A grinder is the same as a rounder. These tend to be semi-professional players that make most of their money playing poker, though they do not make much money. A grinder plays in a similar fashion as a rock. Cften, these players can beat lower and mid-stakes games but can not beat or make much money at the higher stakes games. See also: Aambler. Also known as: Belly Buster. An inside straight draw. An e!ample of a gutshot .also known as belly buster/ is to have ;9"H, aiming to hit a ten.

G,tshot

(hen in +old -)m poker, during a showdown or after a bluff, the Half)Hac$e% winning player shows only one card to the opposing player and mucks the other. A perfect e!ample of this was during the Tournament of Champions when Annie 6uke had a B-pair .#ings and 2ines/ and Phil +ellmuth had

top Pair .#ings/. After a series of bets, Annie decided to re-raise Phil, after much deliberation, Phil folded. Annie then showed 'ust the nine and mucked the #ing, therefore making phil believe he folded the winning hand. Ha++er Hea%s !" +ole cards of $ P B. &6ropping the hammer& refers to winning with this worst starting hand in poker. +eads 4p refers to when there are only two people in the pot. )!ample, a one versus one game is a heads up match. Another e!ample of &heads up& is if one person raises preflop and only one person calls. The pot is &heads up& at the flop because there are only two people competing for the pot. +igh Card means to hold a poker hand that does not contain anything special. 3omeone does not hold any paired cards, a straight, or a flush. Thus, their poker hand is simply referred to their highest ranking card. A person with A#"$E would have a high card ace, while the rest of the cards are kickers. See also: Poker +and, #icker. Aambler slang for F@G,GGG.GG in chips High Societ y Hilton Sister s a pair of sevens as your starting hand hoc$ey stic$s Hole Car% Also known as: 6own Card. A card which is dealt to the player face down so that no other player can see it. See also: 4pcard. A Pair of "acks Hoo$s +ourly rate refers to how much one wins or losses per hour. or Ho,rly Rate e!ample, suppose someone lost F@GG playing poker over BG hours of play. That person-s hourly rate is -FE. People also refer to hourly rate in terms of BB7hour. or e!ample, if that person who lost F@GG was playing F@-FB limit, this means he or she lost EG big blinds over BG hours. Thus that person-s hourly rate could also be measured as -B.E big bets an hour. Please note, that for no-limit games, BB7hour generally refers to big blinds per hour. See also: 5C1. Also known as: ,adies. To be dealt two 0ueens at the beginning of a hand .H,H/

High Car%

*%iot En%

Also known as: Bad &nd. This refers to drawing to the lower end of a straight. or e!ample, if you hold a %E and the flop is :$9, you are drawing to a very low straight. 1f you hit an ;, someone with even 'ust a ten will beat you. Cften, fish lose a lot more money than they should when they draw to the idiot end of a straight. See also: 3traight, Autshot.

1n a tournament where, for e!ample, only the top E players are paid and there are : remaining .the last of whom is terribly short-stacked/, *+"licit Coll, implicit collusion involves all players at the table flat-calling through the sion river for the ma!imum likelihood that the short stack be busted by having all hands see the finish. This strategy is never mentionned at the table, merely assumed. See also: bubble. The same as pot odds e!cept it takes into account making bets in the future. Thus, you may call a bet at the flop, but have implied odds of *+"lie% O%%s making bigger bets on later rounds if you hit your draw. 3o, if you have A# of diamonds and the flop comes two diamonds, your implied odds are what you have to call at the flop compared to how large the pot will be at the end of the hand. *. Also known as: in the !oney. 1n the money* A finishing position in a poker tournament high enough to have a payout. 3tarting hand of a "ack and a ive #ac$son /i&e The Te!as +old -)m starting hand of "ack Hueen. #ac-,ese #ohnny oss hold em starting hand B->. named after michael 'ordan-s Q #or%an Ka+i$a5e a/ A person who is so on tilt that they are literally throwing away their money with no regard. b/ The hold-em starting hand ## See also: cowboys. Kic$er A kicker is the highest card that is unrelated to the type of poker hand one has. or e!ample, someone with the hand A##HE% has a pair of kings with an ace kicker. #ickers are used to break ties. or e!ample, if someone else had ##":E, that person would have a pair of kings with 'ack kicker. The person with a pair of kings with ace kicker would beat the person with a 'ack kicker. The hold-em starting hand Ace-Ten. 2amed after the famous poker player.

1f two people have the same type of hand with the same type of kicker, the ne!t highest kicker is used. or e!ample, in a matchup between A##"E versus A##"%, the person with A##"E would win. #ickers are also used to determine who wins if both players hold a flush or straight. The highest ranking card of the flush or straight is considered the kicker. or e!ample, if 1 hold A#T$E of clubs and "ohn holds #;$:% of spades, 1 would win because my flush is to the ace and his is only to the king. Again, if two people have the same highest kicker, the ne!t highest kicker is used until the tie is broken. 1f two players hold the a flush with all the same kickers, then the pot is split between the two players. See also: +igh Card. Kill King Cra0 The +old-em starting hand #ing-"ack .#"/ Ko'a$ The +old-em starting hand with two 0ueens .HH/. La%ies La%y 5eference to a 0ueen. A pair of 0ueens is often referred to as -ladies.See also: ,adies. #ill is when person who wins two pots in a row must post big blind as well. The hold-em starting hand* #ing and >. <ummyJ

These are players that act later in betting rounds. or e!ample, the button and the player in the cutoff position are in late position. Late Positi See also: )arly Position, Kiddle Position. on A consistent flaw in play. Lea$ Cne who plays for a long period of time, or someone who plays a wide Leather B,tt variety of games. See also: Arinder. Poker with fi!ed bets. 1n a FB-% limit game, all bets and raises are two Li+it Po$er dollars in the first two rounds .preflop and flop/, and all bets and raises are four dollars in the last two rounds .turn and river/. Li+" *n To only call the big blind. See also: ,imp 5aise.

To make a small raise preflop. 4sually used when you have a very strong Li+" Raise hand like AA and wish to provoke a reraise. Little Slic$ Also known as: Big Chick. The hold-em starting hand ace-0ueen .AH/. See also: Big 3lick. A fish who will call and raise a lot. A live one is a bad player who is either a calling station or a maniac. They play almost all of their hands

Li&e One

and en'oy seeing showdowns. See also: Kaniac. This refers to a poker game with seven or more people. Longhan% Loose 3omeone who plays a lot of hands. A loose player is often either a maniac or a calling station. See also: Tight, Calling 3tation, Kaniac, Aggressive. A player who plays any cards and stays in the pot. Lotto Player 3hort for late position. LP L,c$0o( 3omeone who is getting lucky at the table. Aenerally refers to a fish who is winning because of luck. +owever, the term can be applied to anyone who is having a lucky day. 2ickname for a player who is very aggressive. This type of player plays a lot of hand, raises fre0uently, and often bluffs. Cften, maniacs lose a lot of money at poker. See also: Loose-aggressive. A cheater who uses sleight-of-hand to arrange the deck or deal benefit himself or a partner. Pocket %s .%%/ i%)Life Crisis These are players that tend to act during the middle of a betting round. or e!ample, in a field of 9 players, the players in the %-: position are i%%le Positi players in middle position. See also: )arly Position, ,ate Position. on pair of Hueens and #ings o++as an% Po"" as 'ack and fives otown 3hort for middle position. P Kulti Table Tournament .. ,c$ @. .n./ The area on the table where all of the dead cards are placed. Any hand that was folded and all burned cards are placed in the muck. B. .v./ To throw your hand away into the muck. This term is often used when another hand is shown at the showdown that beats your hand. 1t can also mean to fold one-s hand.

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echanic

See also: old. 6ear 6,ts Almost the best hand possible, but there is one or more very unlikely hands that could beat it. or e!ample, if you have AA, and the board is A##9>, you have the near nuts, because someone else may have %-of-akind kings. See also: 2uts.

4sed in Te!as +old em- meaning a starting hand of #ing-Hueen, offsuit 6ewlywe%s or not. 6ic$el 6it Aambler slang for FEGG. See also: 6ime. Also known as: 5ock. A nit is a tight-passive player that avoids confrontations. Typically, the term nit is used when this type of passive player plays in a pot-limit or no-limit game. 2its tend to avoid big pots and do not like to gamble. See also: Passive, Tight. 2o-,imit 6L 6o Li+it A betting structure in which there is no ma!imum bet. Players may bet as much as they want at any time. See also: Pot ,imit, Li!it. Also known as: 'o#(le %#ts. The best possible low A26 high hand in a high-low split game .for e!ample, Cmaha +i-,o/. As an e!ample, you have hole cards of A-B-:-$ and the board is rainbow >-%-E-9-H. <our A-B gives you a wheel .the nut low/ and your :-$ gives you a straight, > to the $ .the best possible high hand given that the rainbow board makes no flush possible/. 5aise it up, brotherJ Also known as: Lo k, %#t "and. The best possible hand that is a guaranteed winner. Pocket ;s Octo",s Offs,it Also known as: 4nsuited. A +old-em starting hand with two cards of different suits. These hands are weaker than suited hands because of fewer flush possibilities. Cffsuit hands are sometimes denoted by an -o-= for e!ample, :%o is pronounced &si!-four offsuit& and refers to a hand with a si! and a four of different suits. See also: 3uited. The hold-em starting hand nine-eight .9;/. Ol%s+o0ile Also known as: Internet Poker. This refers to playing poker over the internet. Cnline poker has boomed Online Po$er in recent years and allows players all over the world to compete against each other. Cnline poker games can be for real money or play money.

6,t)6,t

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OOP

3hort for out of position. 1t means to be in an earlier position than your opponent.s/. See also: )arly Position.

A %-card straight draw that can be completed at either end .such as a :-$O"en)En%e% ;-9/. As opposed to an inside straight draw .such as :-$-9-@G/. O,ts Cards that can improve your hand. 1f the flop is H"B and you have @G 9, you want a king or an eight to complete your straight. There are % kings and % eights in the deck, so you have ; total outs. 1n a 2o ,imit game, to make a bet that is larger than the siDe of the pot. O&er0et the Pot O&erlay An overlay occurs when a poker room has to add money to the priDe pool in a poker tournament. 3uppose a poker room runs a F@GG,GGG guaranteed priDe pool tournament. The buy-in is F@GGRF9, and only ;GG players enter. 2ormally, the priDe pool would be F;G,GGG. 3ince the poker room guaranteed the priDe pool would be at least F@GGk, it would have to add FBGk to the priDe pool. This additional FBGk is considered the overlay. All priDes in this tournament are BEN larger than they normally would be had there been no guarantee. See also: reeroll. O&er"air An overpair is a pocket pair that is higher than any card on the board. or e!ample, if you hold pocket kings and the flop is H9$, you hold an overpair. See also: 4nderpair. A face card or card of high value ."ack, Hueen, #ing, Ace/. Paint Pair A pair is two cards of the same rank. or e!ample, holding the hand AA#E% would be referred to as holding a pair of aces. See also: Poker +and, Two Pair. Also known as: )eak. 3omeone who does not bet and raise a lot. 3omeone who is passive is either a rock or a calling station, depending on how much they call with bad hands. See also: Tight, ,oose, Aggressive. 3hort for pre-flop raise. P/R Pin0all achi ne Also known as: Tilt-A-)hirl. 3omeone playing overly loose or aggresive after a bad beat.

Passi&e

Pot-,imit PL Play Also known as: *ake Money. oney This refers to playing a poker game where the chips do not represent real money. 2othing of any value is won or lost in this type of game, so it is not considered gambling. All ma'or online poker rooms have play money games.

1n hold-em, player uses only the cards on the board and none of his7her Playing the hole cards. Boar% Pot ,imit Cmaha. PLO Pot ,imit Cmaha high7low split eight or better. PLO7 1n +old-em, having two hole cards of the same rank. 1n other words, Poc$et Pair having a pair face down. See also: Pair. Poc$et Roc$e ts Po$er Han% ive of a #ind .when playing with wilds/ 3traight lush our of a #ind ull +ouse lush 3traight Three of a #ind Two Pair Pair +igh Card See also: "olde! Starting "and. Position (here you sit at the poker table. The dealer has the best position because he bets last and therefore has a better understanding of what other people have in their hand. The small blind has the worst position because he goes first. To make a small bet in relation to the siDe of the pot to bluff and try to take it down. A person is pot committed when the pot siDe in relation to their stack forces them to bet or call any remaining money they have in their stack. The odds they are getting are 'ust too good to fold, no matter what. Also known as: 5ockets, American Airlines. The +old-em 3tarting +and AA.

A group of five cards which are ranked according to the hand rankings*

Post Oa$ Bl,ff Pot Co+ +ite%

Pot E-,ity

Pot e0uity is your e!pected value from the pot. 3uppose you have a BGN chance to win the pot. There is F@GG in the pot. Thus, your pot e0uity is FBG ..BG O@GG/. A betting structure in which the ma!imum siDe bet is the siDe of the pot. +owever, the pot siDe is calculated in an unintuitive way* All the money in the pot, plus .if you have been raised/ the amount you would bet if you reraised. This is the odds you are getting when you are drawing, without considering future bets. Basically, if you are drawing to hit your hand, you want to make sure there is enough money in the pot to 'ustify drawing. The way you do this is you calculate your e!pected value of hitting your hand, which is called pot odds. The simple mathematical formula for pot odds is* .pot R bet/ O .chance of hitting/ S? bet or e!ample, say you have a flush draw of diamonds. <ou are fairly certain you will win if you hit the flush but will lose otherwise. Thus, there are 9 other diamonds out there .@> - your two, - two on board/, so you have a roughly @9N chance of hitting a flush on the ne!t card. 1f the pot is 9G, and the bet is @G, you have odds with your flush draw. .9G R@G/ O.@9? @9 @9S@G, so you should call +owever, lets say the pot is @G, you-re at the turn .one card left/ and your opponent bets %G. 3o the pot is EG .including his bet/ and the bet is %G to you. .EG R %G/ O.@9? @$.@ @$.@ T %G, so you should fold. or more help with pot odds, feel free to use our pot odds calculator* http*77simulator.pokertips.org7odds.php The stage of a hold-em game when you have two cards in your hand and there are no cards on the board yet. Prop is short for proposition player. This is someone who is paid by the house to play poker. +owever, the player plays with his own money= the house merely pays him or her an hourly wage to play poker in order to keep the games going. The difference between a prop and a shill is that a shill plays poker with the house money. Props are generally considered okay and a decent way to earn a few e!tra dollars. +owever, shills are looked down upon, and it is unheard of for a casino to employ shills. See also: 3hill. To push means to bet all-in. 1t-s pretty much a synonym for going all-in, e!cept pushing only refer to betting all-in .not calling all-in/.

Pot Li+it

Pot O%%s

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See also: all-in. 8,a%s Also known as: our of a #ind. Huads means four of a kind, holding four cards of the same rank. See also: Trips.

(hen a player wins a pot without a showdown, some players want to Ra00it H,nt know if they would have won had they stayed in the hand longer. To &rabit hunt& means to ask the dealer to e!pose what cards would have come if the player decided to play his hand. Aenerally, these players want to see if they would have hit their straight, flush,etc. 5abbit hunting is frowned upon when playing poker. Race 1n 2, +old-em, when two players are all-in preflop, each having roughly a EG7EG chance of winning the pot. 4sually a pocket pair against a hand like big slick. See also: +oin *lip. 4seless cards or cards that don-t improve your hand. Aenerally these are cards whose ranks are between B-9.

Rags

To be in the big blind with a hand you wouldn-t call.e!. B,> os/, but since you are in the big blind you check. (ith your rags.B,> os/, the flop Rags to Riche comes A%E. your rags 'ust became riches. s Rail0ir% A railbird is someone who watches poker games. They get their name because generally observers of poker games must stand behind a rail. 3ometimes, railbirds are poker players who are broke and want to get back into the action. This describes a board that is comprised entirely of different suits. or e!ample, a flop of Ace of clubs, #ing of hearts, and E of diamonds could be described as A#E rainbow. To make a bet larger than the previous bet, thus forcing the original bettor to call the difference or fold. See also: Reraise, old, Bet, Call. This is the fee the poker rooms charge players. Kost often, it is a percentage of the pot. or e!ample, many poker rooms will take EN of the pot up to F> as a fee for hosting the game. Kany times, brick and mortar casinos will simply charge players a set fee per half hour in replace of the rake. (hen considering a poker game to play, keep in mind how much the rake will cost you. Cften, the rake may be so high in relation to the limit played that it is impossible to win money at the game in the long run. See also: Time Pot. to bet, raise, and re-raise aggressively in order to intimidate opponents .Kike Caro method/ or when you have the stone cold nuts. The number or letter on the card. The highest rank is Ace, and the lowest rank is B. +owever, the Ace can usually be used as a &@& in a straight. The ranks are sometimes abbreviated as follows*

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A - Ace # - #ing H - Hueen " - "ack T - Ten 9 - 2ine ; - )ight ... B - Two See also: 3uit. Ratholing 5atholing means to leave a game and then come back into the game with a smaller stack then with which you left. or e!ample, suppose you buy into a game for FBG. <ou go on a winning streak and increase your stack to F@GG. 2ow, you feel uncomfortable playing with this much money, so you leave the game, pocket F;G, and re-enter the game with only FBG. This would be a case of ratholing. 5atholing is poor poker eti0uette, and most poker rooms prohibit it. Re)%raw This term is used to describe when a player who has a made hand is drawn out by another player. Then, on the river, the original player with the made hand draws another card to beat the person who drew out on him on the turn. )!ample* "oe-s starting hand is Hs Hd and Bethany-s starting hand is Ah %h. The flop is Hh "h >s. "oe has a set of 0ueens and Bethany has a flush draw. 3uppose the turn is a :h. Bethany now is beating "oe with her flush. 1f the river comes a >d, then "oe will hit a full house. "oe will have hit a re-draw. A reload bonus is a bonus that a poker room gives to its e!isting players. ,ike a signup bonus, a reload bonus is typically a percentage of a Reloa% Bon, player-s deposit. See also: 3ignup Bonus. s Also known as: Cash Aame. Ring Ga+e A ring game is a non-tournament poker game. This is the typical type of poker game where players buy-in and cash-out whenever they wish. The chips used at the table represent money. Thus, if a player buys in for F@G worth of chips and cashes out FEG worth of chips, he or she makes a profit of F%G.

1n contrast, a tournament game rewards players based on their final rank in the tournament. or e!ample, if @G people buy in for F@G, then there will be F@GG in the priDe pool. Players would then receive a set amount of chips. These chips can not be cashed out for money= they are used solely for play in the tournament. Play would continue until one person possesed all of the chips. A typical tournament would then award FEG to first place .person who possessed all of the chips a the end of the tournament/, F>G to second place .person who was eliminated last/, and FBG to third place .person eliminated 'ust before second place finisher/, with fourth and lower receiving nothing. Ri&er Ri&er0oat Roc$ Also known as: Tight-Passive. This is a nickname for a type of player who will fold a lot. These types of players generally break even. They fold most of their losers, but will not aggressively bet their winners and will thus not make much money. They are also easily bullied out of pots. Also known as: American Airlines. 5eference to holding pocket aces .AA/ as a starting hand in Te!as +old-em. A 3et of Aces Roc$ies Roger RO* A +old -)m Poker starting hand of T%, referring to a &@G-%& response of &5oger& 5C1 is short for &return on investment.& This is a poker term that is used to measure the profitability of one-s play in poker tournaments. 5C1 is calculated as .@GG O total profit7total buy-in/. Thus, if one received a priDe of F@EG in a tournament with a buy-in of F@GGRF9, one-s 5C1 is calculated as @GG O F%@7F@G9? >$.:@N. 5C1 is used for tournaments though because tournaments always have a fi!ed buy-in in relation to the priDe pool. 5C1 is not useful for ring game play. 3ome people keep track of their 5C1 for ring games based on their buyin and how much they cash out. This is silly. +ourly rate is the measuring stick for ring game play. or e!ample, if one wins F@G at F.EG-F@ limit over E hours, that person-s hourly rate is FB7hour. 1t will not matter if that person buys in for F@GG at This is the fifth and final card that comes on the board in +oldem, after the turn. A full house made on the river .Eth street/.

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that game or F@ million, he or she made FB7hour. +owever, that person-s 5C1 drastically changes. At a buy-in of F@GG, that person-s 5C1 is @GN. At a buy-in of a million, that person-s 5C1 is . GG@N. <ou can keep track of your own 5C1 for free at www.checkyourbets.com. See also: +ourly 5ate. To slowplay an opponent when you have the stone nuts= usually involves a lot of acting and feigning weakness in order to get your opponent.s/ to Ro"e)a) %o"e bet7raise big on a bluff or weaker hand. See also: slowplay. Ro,n%er Also known as: Arinder. A rounder is synonymous with a grinder. These are players who make their living or a significant amount of their income from playing poker. They tend to play mid or low stakes games and win money bit by bit. 5ounding is often considered to be a difficult way to make money because rounders tend to not make much money per hour. See also: Aambler. Pocket si!es. Ro,te 99 The poker hand consisting of A#H"T of the same suit. The royal flush is Royal /l,sh the highest possible 3traight lush. R,nner This means a card that was drawn to help someone-s hand. 1t is generally used in con'unction with the hand the person improved to. or e!ample, if someone hits two cards to make a flush .i.e. improves on the turn and river/, then the person is said to hit runner, runner flush. Pocket %s Sail0oats Also known as: 3lowplay. San%0aggin 3andbagging is another term for slowplaying. 1t means to either check or bet weakly when you have a strong hand. g 3andbagging also can be a synonym for check-raising. A player who plays with no sense. )!ample .all in with a B,9/ Sa,sage 3hort for small blind or small bet SB A scare card is a card placed on the board that has the potential to Scare Car% significantly improve someone-s hand. or e!ample, if the board is Ah #h Ed, a Th would be a scare card. That ten would complete both a flush draw or a straight draw.

3care cards often present e!cellent bluffing opportunities for players. Scoo" To scoop a pot is to win the whole pot in a high7low split game. <ou can do this by holding the best high hand and the best low hand, or by holding the best high hand where there are no hands that 0ualify for low. Betting a very strong hand fairly lightly in order to induce a call. Cften, this method is used to milk a calling station out of money, bit by bit. See also: calling station, Break. A semi-bluff is when a player makes a bet with a hand that is currently weak but has the potential to become a very strong hand. A common e!ample is when someone has a flush draw and makes a bet into the pot. The bettor hopes that the other players will fold, and he wil win the pot right there. +owever, even if the other players do not fold, he still has a good chance at improving and winning the pot anyway. See also: Bluff. Also known as: Trips, Thee o, a -ind. A set means a three of a kind. Aenerally, people refer to a set when someone has a three of a kind because they have a pocket pair, with a board matching that rank of the pocket pair in hold-em. or e!ample, if 1 hold $$ and the flop comes "$:, 1 flopped a set of sevens. See also: Huads. A shark is a good player and typically wins. A shark-s goal is often to simply 'ust win money at poker, so they seek out games with a lot of fish. Basically, in the poker ecosystem, sharks feed on fish. See also: ish. A shill is a poker player who is paid by the house and plays with the house money. +e or she essentially tries to win money for the house at the poker game. )mploying shills is considered immoral and is sometimes illegal. 2o poker players want to play at a casino that uses shills because they are afraid the games are not fair. Because of this, it is a very rare occurence for a casino to use shills. A shill is very different from a prop. Props are players that play poker with their own money. The only difference between a prop and a regular player is that a prop is paid hourly by the house in order to keep games going. Props will generally be forced to play at shorthanded tables or more unpopular games in order to earn their hourly stipend. See also: Prop. Shoes Also known as: ducks. To mean a pair of twos in your hand. 3outh African. This hand in europe is known as ducks.

Sell

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A 3hort 3tack is a player at the table with a low amount of chips= this Short Stac$ player will usually have to go all in to try to double up their stack. This refers to a poker game with si! or fewer people. Shorthan%

(hen two or more players play through the river to determine the Show%own winning hand. After the river betting round, players show their hands to each other to determine the winner. This is called the showdown. Si%e"ot 1n a multi-way pot, a sidepot is created for other players if one player goes all-in. These other players bets and raises will go to the sidepot, and only the players that participated in the sidepot are eligible to win it. See also: All-in. Also known as: ladies. Pocket Hueens.

Siegfrie% an% Roy

A signup bonus is a cash bonus that an online poker room gives to new players that sign up and make a deposit at the poker room. Typically, the Sign," Bon, poker room makes the bonus a percentage of the player-s first deposit. s Practically all bonuses have release re0uirements. This means the poker room will only award the bonus to the new player once the player has played a certain amount of raked hands. Aenerally, the amount of raked hands is e0ual to about ten times the bonus amount. See also: 5eload Bonus. Sit an% Go Also known as: 32A. 3it and Ao is a type of tournament. This means that there is a preselected amount of player spots available. Cnce enough people have registered to fill these spots, the tournament begins. Kost often, a sit and go tournament is a single-table tournament. This means that once ten people register for the tournament, the tournament commences. 3it and go tournaments are very popular online, but they are somewhat rare in brick and mortar casinos. +aving the winning hand .often a massive hand/ and taking a long time Slow Rolling to show the hand when asked to declare. Considered bad eti0uette. Slow"lay Also known as: 3andbagging. 3lowplaying is a deceptive move. 1t is the opposite of bluffing. 1t means to check or bet weakly when one holds a strong hand. The point of the slowplay is so the competition builds a hand that will become the second best hand. Then, when the competition builds this hand, one will 'am the pot with bets. or e!ample, suppose you hold 99 and the flop comes 99%. <ou flopped 0uadsJ +owever, there is little chance you would be called at this point. A good idea is to slowplay and wait for the turn or river cards to come before you start firing. Then you can bet strongly because hopefully the competition will have some sort of hand that merits them calling you down. See also: Bluff.

S+all Bet

The smaller bet in a fi!ed-limit game. 1n a F@G-FBG hold-em game, the F@G bet is the small bet. The small bet is used during the pre-flop and flop rounds, and the big bet is used on the turn and river betting rounds.

The smaller of the two forced bets preflop. The person in first position S+all Blin% posts the small blind, which is e0uivalent to half of a small bet. See also: Big Blind, Blinds. Sna" Also known as: suckout. To break a better hand, similar to sucking out. or e!ample, someone holding B-$ offsuit can snap AA if the board comes out A#BBB. Also known as: 3it and Ao. 3hort for 3it and Ao. 1t is a type of tournament. The hold-em starting hand of apair of eights. Snow+en Soc$s S"ee% Li+it The starting hand of $ @G. S"lit 3tack can be a noun or a verb. Stac$ .n/ The amount of chips you have in front of you. The stack is how much money you have in a poker game. .v/ To go all-in. To stack means to bet your whole stack. or e!ample, &he bet and then 1 stacked. +e called and doubled me up.& See also: All-in. The +old-em 3tarting +and % and B. Stalingra% 2amed after the defeat of the :th Aerman Army in the battle for 3talingrad in @9%B. Because with % and B your chances to win the round are not that good. A straight flush, Ace to the ive. Steel 4heel Stilts Also known as: (alking 3ticks. Pocket 3evens. 1n 3outh Africa this is a pair of Threes. This hand is called 3ocks because Twos are known as 3hoes. The +old-em starting hand with two fives .EE/. Cr, a pair of fives.

S6G

The best holding possible in a hand of poker that will win the entire pot Stone Col% .as opposed to possibly winning only half or some fraction/. 3uch an 6,ts e!ample would be holding a suited ace and making a flush with it on an unpaired board in +old-)m. This is in contrast to holding an ace high straight, which even though it may not possibly be beaten, could end up in a tie with another one.

Also known as: 2uts. Stone 6,ts 4sed to emphasiDe that a hand is not 'ust the near nuts but is the absolute best hand. See also: 2ear 2uts. Stra%%le A straddle is a blind bet made by the person under the gun. A straddle bet is e0uivalent to two big blinds. The person who posts the straddle gets to bet last in the preflop round. A straddle is very ill-advised in a limit game because you are unnecessarily posting a large blind bet out of position. 3traddles are more common for games such as pot limit Cmaha, where the straddle acts to increase the stakes of the game. See also: Big Blind. A poker hand consisting of E cards whose ranks form a se0uence. The highest possible straight is A#H"T .Broadway/ and the lowest straight is E%>B@ .the wheel/. See also: 3traight lush.

Straight

A poker hand consisting of E cards of the same suit whose ranks form a se0uence. Thus, a straight flush is both a 3traight and a lush. The Straight /l,sh highest possible straight flush is A#H"T of the same suit .also called the 5oyal lush/. The lowest possible straight flush is E%>BA of the same suit. String Bet 1n a live game, someone does a string bet if they act like they are going to call but then make a raise. or e!ample, it is standard eti0uette that putting the re0uisite chips for a call into the pot 'ust means a call. 1f one wants to raise, he or she needs to announce raise before placing chips into the pot. They cannot say -1 call your bet...and raise you -!.- They must say &1 raise.& 3tring bets confuse players as to whether the player is calling or raising, so they are not allowed. Also known as: 32A. 3hort for single-table tournament. 1t is essentially the same as an sng, though technically a 32A could refer to a sit and go multi-table tournament. See also: KTT.

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Also known as: 1diot )nd. This refers to drawing to the lower end of a straight. Cne can hit this type S,c$er Straig of straight but still have a high probability of losing. ht S,c$o,t Also known as: 3uckout, Bad Beat. 3ee 6rawout. 1t means someone hit a draw against you to win the hand. See also: 6raw. 3pades, hearts, diamonds, or clubs. 3uit is important for determining a flush, but has no other meaning in most poker games. The suits are sometimes abbreviated as follows* s - spades h - hearts d - diamonds

S,it

c - clubs Therefore, A#h would mean Ace and #ing of hearts. +owever, sometimes the s only means suited. This usually is made clear by conte!t. See also: 5ank. S,ite% 5eferring to a +old-em starting hand with two cards of the same suit. 3uited hands are better than unsuited hands because of flush possibilities. A suited hand is sometimes denoted by an -s-= for e!ample, 9;s is pronounced &2ine-eight suited& and refers to a 9 and an ; of the same suit. See also: Cffsuit. Two hole cards of the same suit that are consecutive in rank. e.g. 9 and ; of clubs.

S,ite% Conn ector

Also known as: (alking 3ticks. S,nset Stri" Pocket sevens. Also known as walking sticks Swans Also known as: ducks. Another nickname for pocket deuces.

All poker games are played table stakes. This means one can only bet what one has in front of him on the table on any given hand. Players .a0le Sta$e cannot reach into their pockets and add to their bets. 1f a player runs out of chips in front of him in the middle of a hand, he or she is considered s all-in. See also: all-in. A set of hooks ."-s/ .ac$le Bo( 5aking in the pot, this is usually when to players are going heads up and one folds .a$e *t Down .a" .a""ing the A-,ar i,+ #nown as &The Trucker&, Ten- our is probably one of the worst hands .he .r,c$er you could recieve in +old -)m poker. 1ts name derives from the language used by trucking convoys, such as &5oger That&, &Breaker Breaker&, and of course &@G- our&. .hree Bet To &three bet& means to make the third bet in limit hold-em. or e!ample, 1f person A bets, Person B raises, Person C re-raises, Person C would have three bet. To &tap& someone is to bet enough money for them to go all in in a 2o limit game. To tell a poor player what he-s doing wrong, i.e., waking up a LfishM.

1t does not matter who makes the third bet. 1f this hand was Person A bets, Person B raises, Person A re-raises, then Person A would have three bet. See also: Cap. .hree of a Kin% Also known as: Trips. A poker hand consisting of three cards of the same rank, and two unpaired cards. See also: Pair, our of a #ind. A hand in Te!as +old -)m that consists of three #ings. .hree 4ise en <ou can &three-0uarter& someone in a high7low split game. This is where you hold the best high hand and the best low hand, while your opponent .hree) -,art only hold one of those hands. Cn the showdown you win half of the pot with your high and split the other half with your low, or the other way er around. This way you win three 0uarters of the pot and your opponent only one 0uarter. .ight .ilt 3omeone who does not play many hands. The opposite of loose. See also: ,oose, Passive, Aggressive, 5ock. A player goes on tilt when his or her emotions take over. A player on tilt no longer plays rationally and instead plays like a maniac. Cften, the player 'ust suffered a bad beat and is very upset. A player on tilt often loses a lot of money, so going on tilt needs to be avoided. +owever, even the best players can go on tilt at times. See also: Kaniac. This is a form of rake. or poker rooms that charge players a fee per half-hour or hour, they will allow the players to have that money taken out of two or three pots. 3ince the -time- money is taken out of these pots, they are called time pots. These are pots that e!ceed a certain threshold .they are typically FBGG or more/. See also: 5ake. A toke is a tip to the dealer after a player wins a pot. Aenerally, players toke the dealer F@ for every pot they win. 6ealers at brick and mortar casinos make the ma'ority of their income off of these tips. 3hort for top pair top kicker. An e!ample is if you hold A# in the hole and the board is AH%. <ou hold top pair with the best possible kicker.

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1t is an Ace our in the pocket, when you first turn over the cards it looks .rans&estite like two aces, but on closer inspection all is not what it seems. To get delt A," .re"asso .ri"s Also known as: 3et, Three of a #ind. Trips means three of a kind, holding three cards of the same rank. See also: Huads.

.,rn .wo Pair

This is the fourth board card that comes out in holdem, the card after the flop. Two pair is e!actly as it sounds- holding two pairs. Please note that it is impossible to hold a &three pair.& Poker hands only consist of five cards. )ven if one is playing a poker game where more than five cards are in consideration .such as Te!as hold-em or $ card stud/, you only use your best E card poker hand. See also: Pair, Poker +and. The position to the left of the big blind which acts first before board cards are dealt. An underpair is a pocket pair that is smaller than any card on the board. or e!ample, if you hold pocket fours and the board is ;9H, you hold an underpair. See also: Cverpair. Also known as: Cffsuit.

!n%er the G,n !n%er"air

!ns,ite% See also: 3uited. !"car% A card that is dealt to the player face up, so that all players may see it. 4pcards are used in 3tud games. See also: +ole Card, Board Cards. 4TA is short for under the gun. See also: 4nder The Aun. A bet that is made where the bettor is hoping to be called, so he7she wins e!tra money from the call. This generally refers to a bet made on the river. or e!ample, suppose you hold "s "d and the board is "c 9c 9s ;d >c. <ou make a siDeable bet on the river. This would be a value bet, since you are hoping someone will call you and pay you off. Vig 4al$ing Stic$s To be dealt two nines at the beginning of a hand .9,9/ 4ayne Gret5 $y 4COOP 4heel (orld Championship of Cnline Poker See also: )PT, (PT, (3CP. Also known as: Bicycle. A wheel is the poker hand AB>%E, the lowest possible straight. Also known as: .igorish. The entry fee charged for a tournament To be dealt two sevens at the beginning of a hand .$,$/

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Also known as: (ild Card. 4il% 4il% Car% Also known as: (ild. A card, such as a 'oker or a designated rank, that can be assigned any rank and suit. A Pair in your starting hand. 4ire% Pair The starting hand of E @G. 4oolworth3s (orld Poker Tour 4P. (orld 3eries of Poker 4SOP