The following is a glossary of poker terms used in the card game of poker. Besides the terms listed here, there are thousands of common and uncommon poker slang terms. This is not intended to be a formal dictionary; precise usage details and multiple closely related senses are omitted here in favor of concise treatment of the basics.
A
- A player's turn to act. The action is on you .
- A willingness to gamble. I'll give you action or There's plenty of action in this game.
- A bet, along with all the calls of that bet. For example, if one player makes a $5 bet and three other players call, he is said to have $5 "in action", and to have received $15 worth of action on his bet. Usually this term comes into play when figuring side pots when one or more players is all in. See table stakes.
- In lowball, "giving air" is letting an opponent who might otherwise fold know that you intend to draw one or more cards to induce him to call.
- Nothing, as in That last bluff was with total air , or I caught air on the river .
B
- A draw requiring two or more rounds to fill. For example, catching two consecutive cards in two rounds of seven-card stud or Texas hold 'em to fill a straight or flush.
- A hand made other than the hand the player intended to make. I started with four hearts hoping for a flush, but I backdoored two more kings and my trips won.
- Not (currently) having the best hand. I'm pretty sure my pair of jacks was behind Lou's kings, but I had other outs, so I kept playing.
- Describing money in play but not visible as chips in front of a player. For example, a player may announce "I've got $100 behind" while handing money to a casino employee, meaning that this money is "in play" and he may bet or call with that money even before the chips are brought to him.
- Any money wagered during the play of a hand.
- More specifically, the opening bet of a betting round.
- In a fixed limit game, the standard betting amount. There were six bets in the pot when I called.
- A type of forced bet. See blind.
- In the "dark".
- To "ante off".
- To have one's stack reduced by paying ever increasing blinds in tournaments. Ted had to make a move soon or he would be blinded away in three more rounds.
- The set of community cards in a community card game. If another spade hits the board, I'll have to fold.
- The set of face-up cards of a particular player in a stud game. Zack's board didn't look too scary, so I bet into him again.
- The set of all face-up cards in a stud game. I started with a flush draw, but there were already four other diamonds showing on the board, so I folded.
- In a draw poker game, to discard cards that make a made hand in the hope of making a much better one. For example, a player with J-J-10-9-8 may wish to break his pair of jacks to draw for the straight, and a lowball player may break his 9-high 9-5-4-2-A to draw for the wheel. In a Jacks-or-better draw game, a player breaking a high pair must keep the discarded card aside, to prove he had openers.
- To end a session of play. The game broke at about 3:00 .
- During a tournament, an interval where play ceases and the players are free to refresh or relieve themselves.
- To open a betting round. Alice brought it in for $4, and Bob raised to $10.
- A forced bet in stud games. In the first betting round, the holder of the worst (lowest or highest, depending) upcard must post a bring-in bet. The bring-in bet is typically a quarter to a third of a small bet. The bring-in bettor may look at his cards, and place a full bet if he deems it wise.
- A casino employee whose job it is to greet players entering the poker room, maintain the list of persons waiting to play, announce open seats, and various other duties (including brushing off tables to prepare them for new games, hence the name).
- To recruit players into a game. Dave is brushing up some players for tonight's game.
- Not complete, such as four cards to a straight that never gets the fifth card to complete it.
- Out of chips. To "bust out" is to lose all of one's chips.
- A rule originating in northern California casinos in games played with blinds, in which a new player sitting down with the button to his right (who would normally be required to sit out a hand as the button passed him, then post to come in) may choose to pay the amount of both blinds for this one hand (the amount of the large blind playing as a live blind, and the amount of the small blind as dead money), play this hand, and then receive the button on the next hand as if he had been playing all along. See public cardroom rules.
- A tactic most often used by late-position players: a raise to encourage the later and button players to fold, thus giving the raiser last position in subsequent betting rounds.
C
- To call a bet to see the next card when holding a drawing hand when the pot odds do not merit it.
- To continue to play a drawing hand over multiple betting rounds, especially one unlikely to succeed. Bob knew I made three nines on fourth street, but he chased that flush draw all the way to the river.
- To continue playing with a hand that is not likely the best because one has already invested money in the pot. See sunk cost fallacy.
- To bet nothing. See check.
- A casino chip.
- To exchange lower-denomination chips for higher-denomination chips. In tournament play, the term means to remove all the small chips from play by rounding up any odd small chips to the nearest large denomination, rather than using a chip race.
- To steadily accumulate chips in tournament play, typically by winning small pots with minimal risk-taking.
- To split a pot because of a tie, split-pot game, or player agreement.
- To play a game for a short time and cash out. Also "hit and run".
- A request made by a player to a dealer after taking a large-denomination chip that he wishes the dealer to make change.
- To chop blinds.
- An agreement by all players remaining in a tournament to distribute the remaining money in the prize pool according to an agreed-upon formula instead of playing the tournament to completion. Usually occurs at the final table of a large tournament.
- The act of counting the cards that remain in the stub after all cards have been dealt, done by a dealer to ensure that a complete deck is being used.
D
- To distribute cards to players in accordance with the rules of the game being played.
- A single instance of a game of poker, begun by shuffling the cards and ending with the award of a pot. Also called a "hand" (though both terms are ambiguous).
- An agreement to split tournament prize money differently from the announced payouts.
- The person dealing the cards. Give Alice the cards, she's the dealer.
- The person who assumes that role for the purposes of betting order in a game, even though someone else might be physically dealing. Also "button". Compare to "buck".
- A 2-spot card. Also called a duck, quack, or swan.
- Any of various related uses of the number two, such as a $2 limit game, a $2 chip, etc.
- In a stud game, a player's first face-up card. Patty paired her door card on fifth street and raised, so I put her on trips.
- In Texas hold 'em, the door card is the first visible card of the flop.
- In Draw poker, the sometimes visible card at the bottom of a player's hand. Players will often deliberately expose this card, especially at lowball.
- A 'drawing hand' is when a player has a chance to improve their hand to something considerably stronger through 'drawing' the required cards on the flop, on the turn or on the river.
- Playing a drawing hand that will lose even if successful (a state of affairs usually only discovered after the fact or in a tournament when two or more players are "all in" and they show their cards). I caught the jack to make my straight, but Rob had a full house all along, so I was drawing dead.
- Playing a hand that can never improve beyond the opponent's hand. As soon as he tabled that flopped three-of-a-kind, I knew my pair of aces was drawing dead.
- To fold.
- Money charged by the casino for providing its services, often dropped through a slot in the table into a strong box. See "rake".
- To drop ones cards to the felt to indicate that one is in or out of a game.
E
F
- The last card dealt to the board in community card games. Also "river".
- The fifth card dealt to each player in stud poker.
- To show the bottom card of the deck while shuffling.
- To show one or more downcards from one's hand. After everyone folded, Ted flashed his bluff to the other players.
- The fourth card dealt to the board in community card games. Also "turn".
- The fourth card dealt to each player in stud.
G
- A game with no opening hand requirement; that is, where the only requirement to open the betting is "guts", or courage.
- Any of several poker variants where pots accumulate over several hands until a single player wins. See guts.
H
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