Ace Any face card with an "A".

Ace in the Hole Ace down card. An advantage that your opponents don't know about.

Ace Up Sleeve Cheating by hiding cards for later use or a figure of speech for a hidden advantage.

Ace-High A poker hand with an Ace in it ex. "Ace high flush".

Aces Full A full house with three aces and any pair.

Aces Over A full house with aces for the pair ex. KKKAA "Aces over Kings".

Aces Up Two pairs, one of which is Aces.

Action Checking/Betting/Raising. A game in which players are playing a lot of pots

Active Player Any player who is still in the hand.

Add-on A purchase of more chips in a tournament.

Advertise Showing down a weak hand, to give the impression that you play overly loose.

Aggressive A poker player who raises and re-raises and rarely just calls.

Ahead Winning up to that point or also refers to relative position

All-In Bet all your chips.

American Airlines A pair of pocket aces

Ammo Chips

Announced Bet A verbal declaration by a player of the amount of his bet, or that he is betting.

Angle-Shooting Take advantage of a poker novice with underhanded techniques .

Ante Obligatory initial money placed in the pot by everyone before any cards are dealt

B&M Abbreviation B&M Brick and Mortar land based casino

Backdoor Making a poker hand other than the one expected or getting turn and river cards to complete a hand

Bad Beat When a good poker hand is beaten by a lucky draw

Bad Beat Jackpot A prize offered by the house for an exceptional bad beat

Bankroll Your poker playing money

Behind Losing or a reference to relative position

Belly Buster An inside straight (gutshot) draw. You have 4568 and try for a 7.

Bet for Value Bet a checkable hand with a slight edge

Bet Into To bet at a player who raised on the last round

Bet the Limit Bet the maximum allowed

Bet the Pot Bet the maximum allowed

Bicycle or Bike Straight A2345

Big Blind A mandatory bet and/or position 2 to the right of the dealer

Big Slick AK pocket pair

Blank A card dealt that does not help or hurt you.

Blind Mandatory bet

Bluff To bet with weak cards hoping to scare opponents into folding.

Boat Full House

Bottom Pair A pair made with the lowest card on the flop

Bubbled To be the eliminated from a poker tournament just before reaching a prize money
round

Bullets Pair of aces

Burn Card A card from the top of the deck discarded before dealing

Bust Out To lose all your chips and thus be eliminated from a poker tournament

Button Dealer position sometimes indicated by a round object

Buy-In Entry free for tournament or the minimum starting amount to sit at a table

Call Matching a bet amount in order to stay in a hand

Call Cold To call when there is both a bet and raise in front

Calling Station A player that calls almost every hand

Capping a Raise Raising the maximum amount in a limit game

Cards Speak The actual card combination trumps any mistaken announcement

Case Card The last card out that completes a poker hand ex. A case 9 will turn 999 into quads.

Cash In Quit and convert remaining chips back into cash

Cash Out Quit and convert remaining chips back into cash

Center Pot The main pot as opposed to any side pots

Change Gears Changing style of play to counteract opponents adapting

Chase To stick witha hand that is behind hoping to improve

Check To stay in a hand without folding or betting when there are no bets to call.

Check-Raise To check and then when somone bets, to raise them

Chop Blinds To agree to return blinds to owner if no one bets

Cold Deck A new deck introducted for cheating purposes

Cold Hands A run of bad poker hands

Come Hand A drawing hand

Come Over the Top To raise or re-raise

Community cards Cards dealt face up on the table for everyone to see and use

Comp Program Inventives like cash or bonuses offered by the house to draw players

Complete Hand A hand that is defined by all five cards

Connector A pair of pocket cards that are 1 rank apart. ex. 67

Conservative Play Betting only hads with high chance of winning as opposed to loose play

Counterfeit When the board duplicates your pocket cards to make them almost worthless

Cowboys Pair of kings

Crap Shoot A poker tournament with lots of loose action

Cripple To cripple the deck is to hold cards that kill anyone elses chances

Crying Call To complain when making a call as a ploy to keep players in

Cut To cut the deck is to split it into 2 and put the middle on top

Dark Bet To bet without looking at your hand

Dead Card A card that is no longer legally playable

Dead Hand A poker hand that is declared invalid

Dead Man's Hand Two pair - Aces and Eights.(from legend of Wild Bill Hicock )

Deal The action of distributing the cards to players

Deal Off To participate in a complete round of blinds and button positons

Dealer Casino employee who handles the cards, gives out the pots, and monitors the game

Dealer's Choice Home game rule that allows dealer to name the game to be played

Dealer's Position Being the last to act in a betting round. On the button. Dealers Button

Deck Stack of cards

Deuces deuce is a 2 deuces a pair of 2s

Diamonds A red card with a suit resembling a diamong

Disconnect Protection A policy related to lost internet connection during a hand

Dog short for underdog

Dolly Parton A straight 9-5

Dominated Hands poker hands likely to be beaten by better kickers

Door Card first up card in stud

Double Bluff A bluff that involves a bet and reraise

Double Up Going all in when shortstacked and doubling your chips

Down Card Cards that are dealt face down

Down to the Green going all in (down to the green of the table)

Draw To receive more cards or try to make a hand

Draw Dead To draw to a hand that would lose anyway

Draw Out To beat an opponent who was ahead

Drop fold

Early Bet A small bet after the first card in stud

Early Position a seat close to the left of the dealer

Edge A positional or other advantage

Entry Fee Cost to enter a poker tournament

Equity Your share of the pot based on winning chances

Even Money 50/50 chance eg. 55 is even money with AK

Expectation The long term expected results of a play

Exposed Cards Cards dealt face up as in stud

Facecard A king, queen, or jack

Family Pot A pot that everyone at the table is participating in

Fast To play a hand aggressively by betting and raising

Fifth Street Another name for the river card or fifth community card

Fill To make a full 5 card hard like a straight flush full house

Fill Up To complete a full house

Fish A poker player that loses alot of money

Five-card Draw A poker game in which the player is dealt five cards down

Fixed Limit betting structure in which the amount of the bet on each round is pre-set

Flash To turn up a common card to complete a stud game

Flat Call Calling a bet without raising

Flat Limit A variant of fixed limit where all bets are the same amount

Floorman An employee of the cardroom who makes rulings on disputes

Flop The 3 community cards dealt face up (hold'em)

Flop a Set to make 3 of a kind hand on the flop when holding pocket pair

Flush 5 cards of the same suit

Flush Draw staying in a hand trying to make a flush

Fold To discard a hand

Force-In A mandatory blind bet

Foul A technical mistake that renders a hand illegal

Four Flush Four cards to a Flush

Four of a Kind 4 cards of the same rank

Fourth Street The turn card or 4th community card (hold'em)

Free Card To see a card without having to calling or bett

Freeroll poker tournament with no entry fees

Full Boat full house

Full House A poker hand that consists of 3 of a kind and a pair KKK-AA

Go All In To bet all your chips at the table

Grifter A cheat

Grinding To play long games with little profit

Gutshot Straight An inside str8 draw ex. Holding 10-J-Q-A as opposed to open ended
10-J-Q-K

High-Low Games where the pot is split to the highest and lowest hands

Hitchhiker A poker player who gets trapped into a pot

Hold'em Short for Texas Hold 'em, where the players get two down cards and five community
cards.

Hole Cards Cards dealt face down to the players

Hot Deck A deck from which good poker hands are being dealt

Hot Seat A seat in a poker game where the players have had winning hands

House The casino or cardroom that is hosting the poker game

Implied Odds Your odds assuming your bets will be called in the next round

Inside Straight Four cards to a straight with the missing card in the middle ex 2356

Jacks-or- Better A form of Video Poker in which a player needs to have at least a pair of jacks to win

Jagging A cheater's technique to mark cards with his fingernail or a device

Jammed Pot A pot that has been raised the maximum number of times

Joker An extra card added to a deck to be used as a lucky wild card

Jonah An unlucky poker player. (possibly related to "fish" definition)

Keep Them Honest Calling a hand to showdown to discourage future bluffing

Key Card A card that gives you a big draw or makes your hand.

Kibitzer A commenting spectator

Kick It Raise

Kicker Highest left over card used to break a tie

Kill An oversize blind

Kill Button A button used in a lowball game

Knock Check (often indicated by knocking on the table)

Kojak A hand that contains a K-J

Komodo Dragoned Losing to a straight or flush made on the river

Ladies Two Queens

Late Position One or 2 seats off the button

Lay Down Your Hand Fold

Lead First player to bet

Leak A losing strategy

Let Slide To fold to a player that is probably bluffing

Lid Top card on a deck

Limit The maximum bet or raise allowed

Limit Poker fixed minimum and maximum betting

Limp To call rather than raise

Liner Face card

Little Blind The first and smallest blind bet

Live Blind Posting a blind out of position in order to joint a table

Live Hand Hand that has not folded

Lock hand that cannot lose (holding the nuts)

Long Odds low probability

Look to call a final bet before showdown

Loose playing too many hands without folding

Low Limit small stakes game

Lowball draw poker in which the lowest poker hand wins

Maniac A poker player that bets and raises almost every hand

Mechanic cheater

Meet call

Middle Pair Second best pair on the flop

Middle Position Somewhere between the blinds and the button

Miscall An incorrect verbal declaration of the raninking of a poker hand

Misdeal Error in dealing which results in a reshuffle and deal again

Mites And Lice low two pair

Monster A very good poker hand

Muck fold without showing cards

Nailing mark cards with fingernail

New York Stud Five-card stud in which a four flush beats a pair

Nickel-Dime small stakes game

Nursing To play tight with last few chips when losing

Nut Flush Best possible flush (holding the ace of the suit)

Nuts Best possible poker hand

Offsuit cards of different suit

Omaha similar to hold'em except gets 4 cards instead of 2

On the Button last to act in turn

On The Come waiting to complete a hand

On Tilt reckless play after a string of losses

One-End straight draw that can only complete on one end

One-Gap cards that are separated by 2 ranks ex.(9-J)
Open-ended Straight can be completed on either end

Opener player to make the fist non blind bet

Option the choice to post blinds out of postion in order to join a table

Outdraw to beat the flop on the turn or river

Outs cards in the deck that will make a poker hand

Over the top reraise a raise

Overpair pocket pair higher than any of the cards on the board

Paint Cards To fold

Pass Fold

Passive Checking and calling hands rather betting and raising hands

Pat Declining drawing cards in a draw game

Peg Cheat by marking a card

Penny Ante Low stakes games

Pigeon Losing poker player

Pips spots or marks on the face of a card

Play Back To raise or re-raise another player's bet

Play Fast To bet aggressively

Play the Board cards on the board make the best poker hand

Pocket down cards or hole cards

Pocket Rockets AA

Poker Face To show no expression

Position seat in relation to the dealer

Post place your chips in the pot

Pot The accumulated bets for a round

Pot Limit Bets limited to pot size

Pot Odds Calculation that weighs a bet, chance of winning, and pot size

pot size, and bet requited to play on. A big pot can make a long shot profitable.

Price pot odds for a draw or call

Prop A person hired by the cardroom to play just to kee action going

Proposing Bets Side bets

Proposition Player/Prop

Protect Usually in reference to playing from the blinds even with a bad hand because a forced bet is on the line

Punctuating mark cards (cheat)

Puppy Feet/Pups club flush or just clubs

Push ex. dealer pushed the pot to the winner

Put Down fold

Putting on the Heat aggressive betting

Quads Four of a kind

Quint Major A royal straight flush

Rack A tray that holds 100 poker chips

Ragged Mismatched flop

Rail Edgle of table

Railbird Spectator

Rainbow Different suits

Raise Increase bet

Raise Blind Raise without looking at cards

Rake Pot tax to the house

Rank Value

Rap To knock on the table indicating a check

Ratholing Taking money off the table and hiding it

Razz A type of 7 card stud

Re-buy Purchase more chips

Re-raise raise a raise

Reading study

Redeal deal over

Represent To act like you just got a good poker hand

Ribbon Clerk small time gambler

Ring Game non tournament action

River last community card in hold'em

Rock tight player

Rounders hustle for a living

Royal Flush TJQKA straight flush (highest possible poker hand)

Run A straight or (2)ex. a run of bad/good cards

Runner runner-runner to complete a poker hand with the turn and and river (lucky)

Running Pair last 2 board cards pair up

Rush winning streak

Sandbagging Try to disguise a good poker hand by just calling

Satellite mini-tournament used to gain an entry into a larger poker tournament

Scare Card a board card that threatens to kill your hand

Second Pair pair the second highest card on the flop

See Call

Sell small bet not to scrare away callers

Semi-Bluff raise with a drawing hand

Set 3 of a kind

Set a Trap to play in a manner that diguises a good hand

Seven-card Stud popular variant with 3 down and 4 up cards dealt to each player

Seventh Street final round of betting in Seven Card Stud

Shark eats up fish

Shills poker players paid by the house to play to get games going

Shoot-out tournament without rebuy

Short Buying to rebuy chips after playing

Short Stack disadvantage due to low chip count

Short-Handed a game with few players

Show expose cards

Showdown after final betting round, show cards to determine winner

Shuffle mix up the cards into a random state

Side Bet any bet outside the main pot

Side Pot a separate pot for when someone is all in and cannot call anymore bets

Sitting Out take a break from a table intending to return

Slow Play disguise a good hand by playing it passively

Small Blind Player to the left of the big blind

Smooth Call To call with a hand that is good enough to raise

Speed Limit 55

Splash Around making wavs with aggressive and reckless betting

Split divide the pot amongst several players who tied

Split Two Pair you hold AK and the board flops AK

Splitting Blinds agree before hand to return blinds if nobody bets it

Spread Limit betting structure within a range of amounts ex $2-4

Squared Deck ready for dealing

Stack total amount of your chips

Stacked Deck a deck that has been arranged for cheating

Stake the average bet amount at a table

Stay Call to stay in the game

Steal To raise hoping everyone folds

Steal Position Try to get better position by raising

Steal the Blinds raise the blinds hoping they fold

Steam tilt

Steamrolling reraise

Straight consecutively ranked hand ex 34567

Straight Flush a straight which is also a flush as all cards are the same suit

String Bet To string along a raise trying to get a reaction

Strip poker Loser takes off an article of clothing

Stub remaining part of the deck after a deal

Stuck in a losing rut

Stud variant of poker where players get up and down cards.

Suit one of the 4 card symbols diamond, clubs, hearts or spade

Suited Connectors consecutively ranked same suit cards

Super-Bluff To win a hand by bluffing against a player who has a very good hand

Table Any area used as a surface for playing cards

Table Cards Cards turned face-up on the table (community cards)

Table Charge fee

Table Stakes The bet limits set for a particular table

Tell Body language that says something about the hand you are holding

Texas Hold'em Poker card game played with 2 pocket cards to each player and 5 face up on the board

Three of a Kind Poker hand consisting of 3 cards of the same rank. Higher than 2 pair and lower than straight

Ticket card

Tight To play few hands

Tilt, On Reckless play brought on by a streak of bad luck

Time (time out)

Toke Tip to the dealer paid by the winner of a pot

Top Pair to the highest card on the board

Tournament Poker competition format whereby each player buys and plays with a set
number of chips

Trap underbet a strong hand to get more action

Triplets Three of a kind

Trips Three of a kind

Turn Texas Hold'em round that follows the flop and preceeds the river

Turncard card dealt on the turn

Two Pair Poker hand consisting of 2 pairs Higher than a single pair and less than 3 of a kind

Two-Way Hand in a split pot game with possibility of winning hi and lo.

Under the Gun the position (seat) that is first to act

Up Card Card dealt face up

Value (bet for) To bet with the expectation of having the best hand (not a bluff)

Variance Up and down swings of your winnings

Video Poker Casino slot machine with a poker theme

Vigorish House rake

Village People four queens (Disco band from 1970s)

Walking Sticks Pair of sevens (77)

Wheel A straight consisting of A-2-3-4-5 also called a bicycle

Whipsaw To be caught in between 2 raising and betting players

Whore Queen

Wired Pair trips or quads dealt consecutively (usually in stud)

Wooden Hand hand that cannot win (deadwood)

World Series of Poker (WSOP) Poker tournament

Yeast (raise)

Zombie Player that does not give any any facial signals