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A straight consisting of A,2,3,4,5, also knows as a bike or wheel.

A fold, check, call, bet or raise. For certain situations doing something formally connected with the game that conveys information about your hand may also be considered as having taken action. Examples would be showing your cards at the end of the hand, or indicating the number of cards you are taking at draw.

Some tournaments allow players the opportunity at a certain point to buy additional chips. This is different from a re-buy because usually anyone still in the tournament can add on and the opportunity to add-on usually marks the end of the re-buy period.

A wager that could enable a player to win a pot without a showdown; a bet or raise

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.

Slang term for holding two Aces as hole cards. Also known as Pocket Rockets or Bullets.

An angle is any legal but ethically challenged method used to increase your expectations or information during a hand.

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

A hand made on the turn and river or 4th and 5th community cards.

(1) A hand in which you come out the loser despite having a very strong hand
(2) A jackpot collected by the house and awarded to players when I particular set of circumstances happen called qualifying.

The total amount of money that a player or individual is willing to gamble or risk during play.

Slang term for an inside straight draw also known as a gutshot.

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

The largest regular blind in a game.

Slang term for Ace & King as hole cards.

Any community card that appears to help nobody.

(1) A required bet made before any cards are dealt.
(2) When one plays without looking at their hand.

A game which utilizes a blind.

Betting with a missed or very weak hand, intended to steal the pot and get other players to fold.

Cards faceup on the table common to each of the hands.

A community card in the center of the table, as in holdem or Omaha .

Slang term for a full house. Also known as a full boat or tight.

When a player holds a pair that is the lowest on the board of community cards.

A card that appears faceup in the deck where all other cards are facedown.

Slang term for a straight ten to Ace (T,J,Q,KA)

A game no longer in action.

Holding two Aces as hole cards. Also known as American Airlines or Pocket Rockets.

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.

(1)A player who is in the designated dealer position. See dealer button.
(2) A plastic disk that is placed in front of a player to indicate that he/she is in the dealer position for that current hand.

Games in which a dealer button is used.

To run out of or lose all your money/bankroll during play.

Ace-to-five lowball with a joker.

Matching the current bet

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

Describes the situation in limit poker in which the maximum number of raises on the betting round has been reached.

To waive the right to initiate the betting in a round, but to retain the right to act if another player initiates the betting.

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.

(1) Returning the blinds to the players who posted them and moving on to the next hand
(2) A pot that is split between two players because they both made the same hand. Also called a split pot.

Calling more than one bet at once.

The fee charged in a game (taken either out of the pot or from each player).

A fee charged for each hand dealt.

A request to change the chips from one denomination to another.

A card dealt faceup 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.

The cards dealt faceup in the center of the table that can be used by all players to form their best hand in the games of holdem and Omaha .

To increase an all-in bet or forced bet to a full bet in limit poker.

When your relatively strong hand becomes considerably weaker by the community or board cards, usually as a result of the board pairing.

Holding two Kings as hole cards.

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

A card that is not legally playable.

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

A hand that is not legally playable.

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

To give each player cards, or put cards on the board. As used in these rules, each deal refers to the entire process from the shuffling and dealing of cards until the pot is awarded to the winner.

A flat disk that indicates the player who would be in the dealing position for that hand (if there were not a house dealer). Normally just called "the button."

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.

When there is no more betting, agreeing to have the rest of the cards to come determine only half the pot, removing those cards, and dealing again for the other half of the pot.

A set of playing-cards. In these games, the deck consists of either:
(1) 52 cards in seven-card stud, holdem, and Omaha .

(2) 53 cards (including the joker), often used in ace-to-five lowball and draw high.

In a draw game, to throw cards out of your hand to make room for replacements, or the card(s) thrown away; the muck.

Cards that are dealt facedown in a stud game.

A king, queen, or jack.

A hand in which all players call to see the flop.

Slang used for a poor or loose player who enters into hands frequently and often calls in an attempt to make any kind of hand, no matter how unlikely.

In limit poker, any betting structure in which the amount of the bet on each particular round is pre-set.

A card that is partially exposed.

A casino employee who seats players and makes decisions.

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

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

To throw a hand away and relinquish all interest in a pot.

The second upcard in seven-card stud or the first boardcard after the flop in holdem (also called the turn card).

A dead hand.

Four cards of the same denomination.

A required wager to start the action on the first betting round (the normal way action begins in a stud game).

Whenever you get to see an additional community card without having to call another bet. Results when all players check a round of betting.

A chance to win something at no risk or cost.

A buy-in of at least the minimum requirement of chips needed for a particular game.

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

An inside straight draw, also known as a Bellybuster.

Only two players involved in play.

Raising or re-raising in an attempt to force other players out of the hand and to get heads-up with one other player.

A side agreement when someone is all-in for a player in a pot to put up money that guarantees a payoff of a set amount in case the opponent wins the pot.

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

An oversize blind, usually twice the size of the big blind and doubling the limit. Sometimes a "half-kill" increasing the blind and limits by fifty percent is used. A kill can be either voluntary or mandatory. The most common requirements of a mandatory kill are for winning two pots in a row at lowball and other games, or for scooping a pot in high-low split.

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.

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.)

A blind bet giving a player the option of raising if no one else has raised.

The ordered roster of players waiting for a game.

A chip marker that holds a seat for a player.

Playing many hands.

A draw game where the lowest hand wins.

The lowest upcard at seven-card stud, which is required to bet.

An incorrect verbal declaration of the ranking of a hand.

A mistake on the dealing of a hand which causes the cards to be reshuffled and a new hand to be dealt.

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

A very powerful hand.

(1) The pile of discards gathered facedown in the center of the table by the dealer.
(2) To discard a hand.

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.

The best possible hand

The player who made the first voluntary bet.

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

In jacks-or-better draw, the cards held by the player who opens the pot that show the hand qualifies to be opened. Example: You are first to bet and have a pair of kings; the kings are called your openers.

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

Cards that can make your hand

Also called oversize blind. A blind used in some pots that is bigger than the regular big blind, and usually increases the stakes proportionally.

(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 wager, at which point you must discard your hand and have no further interest in the pot.

Not drawing any cards in a draw game.

Slang term for King, Queen or Jack also known as Face Cards or Paint.

Have chips in play that are not in front of you (allowed only when waiting for chips that are already purchased). This differs from table stakes.

Using all five community cards for your hand in holdem.

To play in a seat when the occupant is absent.

A clear plastic box used to cover and protect the chips of an absent player when someone plays over that seat.

Any two hole cards of the same value. Holding AA in your hand is often referred to as having Pocket Aces.

(1) The relation of a player’s seat to the blinds or the button.
(2) The order of acting on a betting round or deal.

When a player is forced to bet prior to being dealt cards. Usually occurs in the blind position or when a player has been absent from play and has missed paying the blinds.

Betting structure of a game in which you are allowed to bet up to the amount of the pot

Agreeing with another player to take money out of a pot, often to buy food, cigarettes, or drinks, or to make side bets.

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

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

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

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.

Slang term for a low value card.

Term used to describe a flop in which all three cards are of a different suit, this lessens the chance of being able to make a flush.

To increase the amount of a prior wager. This increase must meet certain specifications, depending on the game, to reopen the betting and count toward a limit on the number of raises allowed.

The money removed from the pot by the casino or house, usually 5% of the pot up to a maximum of $5.

To raise someone’s raise.

The last of the 5 community cards in a flop game.

A player that makes his/her hand by calling all the way to the river.

A drawing hand that is made using the 4th and 5th community cards.

Short period of time in which a player wins a large number of pots.

To win both the high and the low portions of a pot in a split-pot game.

A facedown mixing of the cards.

A bluff in which the player currently has not made their hand but has many possibilities or outs to make a very strong or winning hand.

When a player has three of a kind, with two in the hole.

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

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

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

When a player has the fewest or very few chips at the table.

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

The act of mixing the cards before a hand.

When a player under bets or checks a very strong hand.

In a game with multiple blind bets, the smallest blind.

To throw your chips into the pot instead of placing them.

A pot that is divided among players, either because of a tie for the best hand or by agreement prior to the showdown.

When no one else has entered the pot, an agreement between the big blind and small blind to each take back their blind bets instead of playing the deal (chopping).

In high draw jacks-or-better poker, dividing openers in hopes of making a different type of hand. 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."

Chips in front of a player.

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

Five cards in consecutive rank.

Five cards in consecutive rank of the same suit.

Cards dealt on a particular round in stud 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.

A bet made in more than one motion, without a declaration of a raise (not allowed).

The portion of the deck which has not been dealt.

When a player has lost a considerable amount of money through the course of play.

A cardroom employee qualified to make rulings, such as a floorperson, shift supervisor, or the cardroom manager.

Habit, action or behavior that gives other players more information about your hand than they would have simply from your play.

Slang term for a Full House.

Play that is much too loose and often very aggressive often brought about by frustration or anger.

An expression used to stop the action on a hand. Equivalent to "Hold it."

A fee for a seat rental, paid in advance.

A poker competition, normally with an entry fee and prizes.

Slang term for Three of a Kind.

The fourth street card in holdem or Omaha .

Cards that are dealt faceup for opponents to see in stud games.