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- 7-card Stud - variation of Poker where the player has 3 closed cards and 4 open cards and must make up the best hand.
- Ace-High - a hand with an Ace.
- Aces Full House - 3 aces and a pair.
- Aces Up - hand with 2 pairs, including a pair of Aces.
- Action - betting, checking, raising or folding.
- Active player - every player still in a game.
- Add-on - extra chips that can be bought at the end of a Sit n Go period of a tournament.
- Aggressive - player who bets and raises constantly.
- All-in - Bet everything you have.
- Ante - obligatory bet all players make before the cards are distributed to players.
- Backer - someone who provides a player with cash to play with in exchange for a share of the prize money.
- Backraise - a raise from a player who had previously checked.
- Bad beat - losing a game on the last card, when you were the favourite to win beforehand.
- Bankroll - amount of money a player has to play with.
- Belly Buster - draw giving an inside straight.
- Bet - putting chips in the pot.
- Bet limit - Bet limits establish the minimum and maximum chip amounts that players can bet. For example, in a £10/£20 game, the minimum bet limit is £10 and the maximum is £20.
- Bet odds - evaluation of chances of winning after a bet by each player.
- Bet the pot - player betting the pot amount.
- Big Slick - a hand with an Ace and King.
- Big blind - In Texas Hold'em and Omaha, the second obligatory bet made by the player 2 left of the dealer. It is double the small blind
- Blank - a useless card or hand.
- Blind - 2 obligatory bets at the start of a bet to establish a pot.
- Bluff - betting to make other players think you have a strong hand.
- Board - centre of the table where the community cards go. The pot is also left on the Board.
- Bonus - a promotion offered by the House which could be a deposit bonus or real chips.
- Bonus seeker - a player who only uses bonuses to play with.
- Bottom pair - a player who uses the lowest card in the flop to make a pair with one of his/her own pocket cards.
- Bounty - a bonus available for a player to win during a tournament.
- Bring it in - starting the first round of betting
- Broadway - a straight starting with an Ace.
- Bubble - The bubble is the lowest position in a poker tournament.
- Bullets - a pair of aces.
- Bump - restarting the game.
- Burn - a higher card put to one side, face down before each new deal. Burning a card aims to reduce any chance of cheating.
- Bustout - a player who is eliminated from a tournament.
- Button (Dealer's ...) - the button which indicates the current dealer in a game.
- Buy-in - the minimum or maximum number of chips brought to a table. The participation fee in a tournament.
- Buy-ins (Minimum ...) - the minimum amount to enter a tournament or play a game.
- Call - making the same bet as the last player in order to stay in the game.
- Calling station - a big, passive player, who doesn't raise often and checks more often than s/he should.
- Cap - maximum number of bets allowed, during each round of betting.
- Cards speak - best combination of cards possible.
- Case Chips - the last chips a player has.
- Cash Out - leaving a game to cash your chips out at the cashier
- Cash-game - Rather than a tournament, a free Poker game where players can leave the table and take their cash when they want to.
- Check - staying in the game without betting, providing no-one else has bet.
- Chip leader - the player with the most chips in a cash game.
- Chip race - Withdrawal of chips of the lowest value.
- Chop - giving the forced bets to players who made them and moving them to the next game if no other player checks.
- Clear - cancel all bets and return the money to the player/s.
- Coffeehousing - a discussion amongst players which aims to organise players so that they cause another player to make the incorrect decision, this is a form of cheating and banned.
- Collusion - Two players who plan to work together to get money out of the poker site they are playing on, also banned.
- Combination - any of the 9 hands you can make in Poker (see: Rules of the game)
- Commission - Money taken by the House. Commission is generated by all players playing a hand and not by an individual player. The levels of commission are noted on our website (see: Commission system)
- Community (or Common, or Board) Cards - The cards on the table that anyone an use to make a better hand (see: Rules of the game)
- Counterfeit - a card which then makes up a better hand than the one your opponent has.
- Dark (In the ...) - Playing in the dark, betting without looking at your own cards. Generally, on the first round of betting on 7 card stud.
- Dead Bet - active non-bet where the penalty costs are put into the pot.
- Dead Blind - blinds (obligatory bets) made by the 2 players sat to the left of the dealer. If none of the players raise, the player who made the small blind must call, this amount will not be deducted from his/her bet (dead blind).
- Dead Hand - Hand which is no longer eligible in the game.
- Dealer (Croupier) - the person who distributes the cards
- Dealer's position - being the last to act in a round of betting.
- Deposit - the amount the player puts into his/her online poker account.
- Deuces - a pair of twos.
- Dominant hands - good, solid hands.
- Dominated hands - a hand to play which could lose against hands which are neither straights, flushes or similar.
- Donkey - an insult for a player who is playing badly but thinks s/he is playing well.
- Door card - The first card revealed in a game of Stud.
- Down (or Hole) cards - the cards given out face down in front of players. Also called private cards in some games.
- Draw Poker - variation of poker. Chance of replacing one or more pocket cards.
- Drawing Hand - a card that is useless at the beginning but could become part of a strong hand.
- Drawing dead - Taking a card without any chance of winning.
- Ducks - a pair of twos.
- Duel (Heads-up) - a game where only 2 players compete against each other.
- ECOOP - Acronym for "European Championship of Online Poker". The online European poker championship.
- EPT - Acronym of "European Poker Tour".
- Early position - the players well seated after the blinds.
- Edge - advantage one player has another at any level.
- Faces (paints, picture cards) - cards with an image on (Jack, Queen, King).
- Family pot - when all players on the table play in a game.
- Fee - the amount paid by the player on top of the buy-in to take part in a tournament.
- Fifth street - the river.
- Financial odds - looking at the amount of money in the pot when you decide whether to check, raise or fold.
- Fish - an insult.
- Five-card Stud - variation of Poker in which each player receives 5 cards, one hidden and 4 open, with bets on each card.
- Flat Call - follow a bet without raising.
- Floorman - someone who supervises the poker floor.
- Flop - In Texas Hold'em, the first three communal cards shown face up on the carpet.
- Flop games - a variation of poker (Texas Hold'em and Omaha)
- Flush - A hand of 5 cards of the same suit (for example: 5 hearts)
- Flush draw - a hand one short of a flush.
- Fold - When you have a bad hand, give it up and stop playing.
- Forced bet, blinds - obligatory first bet, on the 1st round of the game.
- Four of a kind - A hand of four identical cards (ex: four jacks).
- Fourth street - in a Flop game, the 4th community card (the turn), in the 3rd round of bets.
- Free card - cards a player gets following a semi-bluff, in a way that other players check.
- Freeroll - A tournament with free entry. A promotion run by the House, which provides the money for the Prizepool.
- Freezeout - tournament in which players start with the same number of chips without any chance of a Re-buy or Add-on.
- Full House - A hand of 3 of a kind and a pair (3 Kings and a pair of 10s for example)
- Garage - progressive accumulation of chips made up of outside regular pots/the sum reinjected into the pots in the special games.
- Garbage - a rubbish hand.
- Grinder - a solid player trying to make big profits.
- Gutshot - inside straight draw.
- Hand - a player's 5 best cards.
- Heads-up - the moment when there are only 2 more players in the game.
- Hide - throwing your hand away.
- High limit - a game in which the amount of bets is important.
- High-card - the value of the single highest card that you have.
- High/Low - a variable in poker where the highest and the lowest hands pay out.
- Hole - the cards a player has in hand.
- House - the poker room.
- Implied odds - chances of calculating from the probable amount of bets and the number of players in the game.
- Inside straight - a single card needed to make a straight, within the sequence of cards needed.
- Isolate - raising hoping to only have one more opponent.
- Jackal - an aggressive player who raises and re-raises.
- Jackpot - prize given to a player who wins in a series of games.
- Jacks-or-Better - a variant of Poker, a player must get at least a pair of Jacks to win.
- Jammed - a pot which many raises have been put into.
- Kansas City Lowball - variation of Poker lowball where the worst hand is the best hand. Also called Deuce to Seven.
- Key card - a card which makes up a good draw or a good hand.
- Key hand - a decisive game for a player in a tournament.
- Kicker - 2nd card used to support the top card.
- Kill Pot - a method of stimulating action, a forced bet by a player who just won the pot.
- Ladies - a pair of queens.
- Large, loose - an inconsistent player who plays a lot of games.
- Late position - a position in betting where the player is one of the last to bet.
- Lay down - folding even when you have a good hand.
- Lead - first player to bet in a round of betting.
- Limit Poker - game with amounts of specific minimal and maximum bets and a number of defined raises.
- Limper - 1st player to bet.
- Live Card - in Stud, the cards which still have not been revealed and games that are still in the game.
- Live Hand - a hand which could still win
- Live blind - a player who has made a forced bet, allowed to raise, even if no other player raises (also called an option).
- Lobby - The name given to the Poker software that you can download online for free.
- Long Shot - a player who does not have a good chance of winning.
- Low limit - game where the amount of bets is low.
- Lowball - variation of poker where the lowest hand wins the pot
- Main pot - the central pot.
- Make - shuffling the cards.
- Maniac - an aggressive player who plays a lot of games.
- Max game draw - a game which cannot be beaten.
- Mexican - in Hold'em, 9 cards communal to all players, and 2 cards are their own.
- Middle pair - in a Flop game, a player with a pair of cards which are in the middle value of the flop.
- Middle position - somewhere in the middle of the round of betting.
- Mnemonics - a mental trick which allows you to memorise the game.
- Muck - not showing your cards after a player has showed a better hand.
- Multi-table Tournaments - Tournaments at a fixed time which are played by 12 or more. The winner is the player who still has all his/her chips at the end of the competition.
- No pot limit - When players can bet any amount they like in any round of betting in a game. Bets have to be at least equal to the previous bet.
- Nuts - best possible hand in a specific game and the possibilities offered.
- Off suit - cards of a different colour.
- Omaha - variation of poker where each player receives 4 pocket cards and 5 community cards.
- Open - making the first bet.
- Open cards - card distributed face down which becomes a community card, used by any player to improve a hand.
- Open-ended straight - 4 consecutive cards missing one card for a straight.
- Option - bet forced live, made before the cards are distributed.
- Out button - in the poker software, it allows each player to not play but to stay at the table.
- Out/s - in poker, the card/s which could improve your hand
- Outs - cards remaining in the game which could win the hand.
- Pair - A hand of two identical cards. It is possible to have 2 identical cards. (ex: two 8 of diamonds)
- Pair (Superior) - having in your hand the highest pair possible.
- Pair (Top) - in a Flop game, a player with a pair made up of one of his own cards and the highest community card.
- Pair (Two) - A hand of two pairs of cards of the same value (ex: two 8s and two jacks)
- Pair (open) - pair distributed face up.
- Pair (strong) - in a Flop game, a player with a pair made up of one pocket card and a community card (or table cards).
- Picture cards - cards with people on (jack, queen, king).
- Play money - Some games are played with "play money", for free, before the new player makes his first deposit, recommended for new players.
- Pocket - closed (or hidden) cards.
- Pocket rockets - pair of Aces as pocket cards.
- Position - a place where a player is in relation to the dealer, allowing to make a bet order.
- Post - if the forced bet is missed, the player has to add the chips up to the value of the forced bet.
- Pot - The amount of the total bets made in a game.
- Pot limit - a game where the maximum bet can only be the same size as a pot
- Private card - The two pocket cards only seen by the one player (see: Rules of the game)
- Prize Pool - The jackpot or prize stated before a tournament. Made up of the participants' buy-in.
- Push - the dealer pushing chips towards the winner at the end of the game.
- Quads - 4 of a kind
- Qualifier - in Hi/Lo games, what the low hand must achieve to win the pot.
- Rail - border of table poker where the barrier is found outside the game area.
- Railbird - person watching a game in a poker room and/or waiting to start playing.
- Rainbow - 3 cards of different suits.
- Raise - Increasing the amount of a bet
- Raise (Steal ...) - a bet made late to ward off other players and perhaps steal the pot.
- Raise (blind) - betting without looking at cards.
- Rank - value of each card in each hand.
- Ratholing - an illegal action (taking money from the table and moving it elsewhere).
- Razz - 7 card stud in which the 5 lowest cards win the pot.
- Re-Bet - betting the same amount again.
- Re-buy - money paid by the player to add to add a fixed number of chips for games during a tournament.
- Reading - watching a player, checking his behaviour and actions in a game.
- Real money - The money spent by the player with which he bets. The player has to be aware that as well as winning, you are risking losing your money.
- Ring game - live game (except a tournament).
- River - the last community card shown.
- Rock - a player considered conservative, only betting with a very strong hand.
- Round of betting - moment where players can bet, and choose whether to check or raise.
- Royal Flush - Ace-King-Queen-Jack-10 of one suit, the strongest possible hand.
- Run - playing with more money than is reasonable.
- Rush - winning several hands in a row or having a streak of good luck.
- Sandbagging - holding and checking a good hand. Hiding your hand's strength and allowing other players to make bets.
- Satellite - qualification table with a small buy-in which could gain you entry to a much bigger tournament.
- Seating list - a player adding its name to a list if there are no places available on the table.
- Second pair - make a pair with the help of the second highest card on the table in combination with pocket cards.
- Semi-bluff - betting with an average hand or a hand which needs to be improved to win.
- Set - having a pocket pair in which the value corresponds to a table card.
- Shark - a poker pro.
- Shills - name of the employees helping run and organise the games.
- Short buying - buying chips after the initial purchase.
- Short stack - the player with the least chips
- Short-handed - a small hand game with a small amount of players.
- Showdown - at the last round of bets, active players show their hand to find out who is the winner. In online poker, the showdown winner is automatically determined.
- Side pot - second pot for players after someone has gone all-in.
- Sit Out - possibility of reserving a seat without taking part in some round but perhaps brought to depositing the amount of the blind if s/he wants to keep a seat.
- Sit'n'go - a tournament that starts once a table is full.
- Sixth street - in 7 card stud, the 4th open card. Also the 4th round of betting.
- Small blind - In Texas Hold'em and Omaha, the 1st obligatory bet placed by the player to the left of the dealer. (see: Rules of the game)
- Soft seat - position or favourable game, up against inexperienced players.
- Solid - a tight player (playing well).
- Split - sharing the pot.
- Stack - the chips a player has.
- Stay - a player who stays in the game, checking in place of betting.
- Step tournament - multi-table tournament where the number of players progressively diminishes.
- Stone-cold bluff - betting or raising with a weak hand hoping other players fold.
- Straight draw - missing one card to make a straight
- Straight flush - hand of 5 cards in a row in the same suit. (ex: 7,8,9,10,J of hearts)
- String bet - responding several times for betting chips, without announcing the bet, this is banned.
- Strong card - the strongest hand on the table of the cards there.
- Structure - Limits set on forced bets and raises, in a specific game.
- Stuck - a player who loses.
- Stud game - a player receiving open and closed cards at the same time.
- Suited connector - having 2 cards of the same suit which follow each other.
- Third street - in 7 card Stud or more, the 1st round of betting following the distribution of the first 3 cards.
- Thirty miles - Three 10s.
- Three of a kind - 3 identical cards.
- Tight - a prudent player.
- Top pair - having the same card as the highest one on the table to make up a pair..
- Tournament - Poker competition at a fixed time
- Treys - a pair of 3s.
- Turn - The 4th community card (see: Rules of the game)
- Two ended straight draw - 4 cards in a row which can make up a straight hi/low.
- Underdog - a player who is not favourite.
- Underpair - pair of cards lower than the lowest value cards in the flop.
- Up Card (visible card) - a card visible to all player.
- Vegas - what the French call Texas Hold'em.
- WOPC - Acronym for "World Online Poker Championship". The top poker tournament. It started in 1970 and brings together the world's best players.
- WPT - Acronym for "World Poker Tour". A collection of worldwide tournaments which bring together the world's best players.
- WSOP - Acronym for "World Series of Poker". A world poker championship. This event is a Texas Hold'em Pot limit or no limit game for the Main Event in which the entrance fee is $10,000. It takes every year from June to July
- Walking sticks - a pair of 7s.
- Wheel - the poker hand A2345, the lowest possible straight.
- Widow-Poker - or Hold'em. An open poker family.
- Wild Card - Joker.
- Wired Pair - a closed pair.
- Zoo - a chaotic game (especially in a tournament), all players bet and raise a lot.