Ace-High: A five-card hand containing an ace but no pair
Aces Up: Two pairs, one pair being aces.
Active Player: A player still in the pot.
Advertise: To make a bluff with the deliberate intention of being exposed as a loose player.
Ante: A token bet required before the start of a hand.
B
Bet: To voluntarily put money or chips into the pot.
Bet The Pot: To bet the total value of the pot.
Big Blind: The forced bet in second position before any cards are dealt. Usually this is a Live Blind, which means that the player in this position can raise if no one else has before the cards are dealt.
Big Slick: The Ace-King card combination.
Blind Raise: When a player raises without first looking at his or her card.
Burn: To deal off the top card, face down, before dealing out the cards (to prevent cheating); or to set aside a card which has been inadvertently revealed.
Button: In all flop games, a small disk used to signify the player in the last position if a house dealer is used; a buck.
C
Call: To match, rather than raise, the previous bet.
Cash In: To leave the game and convert one's chips to cash, either with the dealer or at the cage.
Caught Speeding: Slang for caught bluffing.
Check: To abstain from betting, reserving the right to call or raise if another player bets. Also another name for a chip.
Check-Raise: To check and raise in a betting round.
Come Over The Top: To raise or reraise an opponent's bet.
Community Cards: In flop games and similar games, the cards dealt face up in the center of the table that are shared by all active players.
D
Dead Card: A card no longer legally playable.
Dead Hand: A hand no longer legally playable, due to some irregularity.
Down Cards: Hole cards.
Down To The Felt: A player who has lost most of his chips.
Draw Lowball: A form of poker in which the lowest hand wins.
Draw Out: To improve your hand so that it beats an opponent who had a better hand than yours prior to your draw.
Drop: To fold.
E
Early Position: A position on a round of betting in which you must act before most of the other players.
Even Money: A wager in which you hope to win the same amount as you bet.
F
Fifth Street: In flop games, the final round of betting and the fifth community card on the board; in stud games, the fifth card dealt to each player and the third betting round (on the third upcard).
Flop: In flop games, the first three community cards, which are turned face up simultaneously and start the second round of betting.
Flush: Five cards of the same suit.
Flush Draw: Having four cards of the same suit, and hoping to draw a fifth to make a flush.
Fold: To withdraw from the hand rather than bet or raise; to give up.
Four Of A Kind: Four cards of the same denomination.
Fourth Street: In flop games, the fourth card on board and the third round of betting, the turn; in Seven-Card Stud, the fourth card dealt to each player and the second round of betting (on the second upcard).
Full House: Any three cards of the same denomination, plus any pair of a different denomination.
G
Give Action: Betting, calling, raising or re-raising.
H
Hand: A player's best five cards.
Heads-Up: A game between just two players, often the climax of a tournament.
High-Low: A poker game in which the highest and lowest hands share the pot. Also called High-Low Split.
Hold 'Em: A form of poker in which players use five community cards in combination with their two hole cards to form the best five-card hand. Also called Texas hold 'em.
Hole: The concealed card or cards.
Hole Card: A card concealed in a player's hand.
I
Implied Odds: The amount of money you expect to win if you make your hand versus the amount of money it will cost you to continue playing.
In: A player is "in" if he or she has called all bets.
Inside Straight: Four cards requiring one in the middle to fill a straight.
J
Jam: To bet or raise the maximum.
Jammed Pot: The pot has been raised the maximum number of times, and may also be multi-way.
K
Key Hand: In a tournament, the hand that proves to be a turning point, for better or worse.
Kick It: To raise.
Kicker: The highest unpaired side card.
L
Lay Down: To reveal one's hand in a showdown.
Lay Down Your Hand: To fold.
Limit Poker: A game with fixed minimum and maximum betting intervals.
Live Hand: A hand that is still eligible to win the pot.
Lock: A hand that cannot lose; a cinch hand.
Long Odds: The odds for an event that has a relatively small chance of occurring.
M
Make: To make the deck is to shuffle.
Make A Move: To try a bluff.
Move In: To go all-in.
Muck: To discard a hand; also the discard pile in which all cards are dead.
N
Narrow the Field: To bet or raise in order to scare off other players whose hands are currently worse than yours, but have the potential to improve.
No-Limit Poker: A game in which players can bet as much as they have in front of them on any given round.
Nuts: The best possible hand at any point in the game, a cinch hand.
O
Odds: The probability of making a hand versus the probability of not making the hand.
Offsuit: Two different suits, used to describe the first two cards.
Open: To make the first bet.
Open-Ended Straight: Four consecutive cards requiring one at either end to make a straight.
Overcard: In stud games, a card higher than your opponent's probable pair; in flop games, a card higher than any card on the board.
Overpair: In flop games, a wired pair higher than any card on the board.
P
Pair: Two cards of the same denomination.
Pass: Fold.
Picture Cards: King, Queen and Jack; face cards; court cards; paint cards.
Pocket: Another term for hole.
Pocket Rockets: A pair of aces in the hole.
Pot: The money or chips in the center of the table.
Pot Limit: A game in which the maximum bet is the total of the pot.
Q
Quads: Four of a kind.
R
Rack: A plastic tray that holds 100 chips in 5 stacks of 20.
Rail: The sideline at a poker table.
Raise: To call and increase the previous bet.
Rake: Chips taken from the pot by the dealer on behalf of the house.
Rank: The value of a card. Each card has a suit and a rank.
Read: To try and determine your opponent's cards or betting strategy.
Re-raise: To raise a raise.
River: In flop games, the last round of betting on the fifth street card; in stud games, the last round of betting on the seventh street card.
Royal Flush: The best possible poker hand, consisting of the 10 through the Ace, all the same suit.
S
See: To call.
Set: Three of a kind; trips (usually applies to a pair in hand and a matching card on board).
Seventh Street: The final betting round on the last card in
Short-Stacked: Having only a small number of chips left.
Show One, Show All: A rule that says if a player shows their cards to anyone at the table they can be asked to show everyone else.
Showdown: The point at the end of the final round of betting when all the remaining player's cards are turned up to see which player has won the pot.
Side Pot: A separate pot contested by other players when one player is all-in.
Sixth Street: In Seven-Card Stud, the fourth round of betting on the sixth card.
Slow Play: Disguising the value of a strong hand by underbetting, to trick an opponent.
Small Blind: The smaller of the two compulsory bets in flop games, made by the player in the first position to the dealer's left.
Split: A tie.
Stack: The pile of chips in front of a player.
Straight: Five consecutive cards.
Straight Flush: Five consecutive cards of the same suit.
Streak: A run of good or bad cards.
Sweeten: Poker slang for raise.
T
Table Cop: A player who calls hand to keep the other players honest.
Tapped Out: Busted.
Tell: A player's playing habits that might reveal his hand.
Texas Hold 'Em: A game of poker in which players use five community cards in combination with their two hole cards to form the best five-card hand.
Three Of A Kind: Three cards of the same denomination.
Tight: A conservative player playing only strong hands.
Top Pair: Pairing the highest card on board.
Triplets: Three of a kind.
Trips: Three of a kind.
Turn: The fourth community card.
Two Pairs: A hand with two pairs and any other card.
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