| All
In |
Putting all your money in. |
| Alligator Blood |
(U.S) A tough player is good under pressure. |
| Ante |
A small bet that everyone at the table is required to pay before each
hand (in games with an ante). e.g. Casino Stud Poker, 7-card stud. |
| Apple,
the |
(U.S)
The biggest game in the house. |
| Back Door |
A
hand-made 'back door' is one made using both of the last two cards. A back door
flush in Texas hold 'em is about 20-1. |
| Bankroll |
Also
known as 'roll' or 'wad' (colloq.) This is gambling money or risk money,
as opposed to the money you live on. |
| Base Deal |
Cheating
by dealing from the bottom of the deck. |
| Belly buster |
An
inside straight draw. |
| Berry Patch |
(U.S) An
extremely easy game. |
| Big Blind
|
In flop
games, two bets are usually posted before any cards are dealt. The small
blind by the player to the left of the dealer and the big
blind (double the small blind) by the player to the left of the
small blind. |
| Blind
Bet |
A
pre-deal bet, or blind. In flop games it initiates the betting
round. |
| Blinds |
 A forced bet in flop games
like Hold 'Em, Omaha. |
| Bluff |
A bet
with a weak hand, usually intended to get other players to fold. |
| Boat |
Nickname
for a full house. |
| Bracelet |
Winning
a championship event at the World Series of Poker (WSOP) earns the player a
Gold Bracelet. Highly prized amongst poker professionals. |
| Brass Brazilians |
The best
hand, also known as 'the nuts.' |
| Broadway |
(U.S)
An Ace high straight. |
| Bullets |
A pair
of aces in the hole. |
| Bump |
To
raise. |
| Bust |
To run
out of money. 'Busted out' in competitions where its final. |
| Button |
Big
white marker in the shape of an ice-hockey puck the denotes the position of
dealer in house dealt games. |
| Buy |
To
buy a pot is to make a bet large enough that other players would
be unlikely to call. |
| Call |
To
call a bet is to equal it but not raise it. |
| Carpet joint |
A big
card room with comforts. The opposite of a ceedy joint. |
| Case money |
Emergency money. |
| Catch |
When the
cards are treating you well, you are said to be catching cards |
| Check |
If no
one has bet and it is your turn, you may 'check' to signify passing the
initiate to the next player without risking money. (exception=7 card
stud) |
| Checks |
(U.S) Poker
chips. |
| Chip |
Poker
chips are small round discs used instead of money at the poker
table. |
| Coffeehouse |
Talking
about a game you are in to misleadiother players, is coffeehousing. |
| Cowboys |
(U.S)
Kings. |
| Cut |
Remove a
number of cards from the bottom of the deck and place them on the
top. |
| Cut Off |
In a
flop game poker table the person to the right of the Button (Dealer), a
position often used to raise before the Button gets a chance to try and steal
the blinds. |
| Door card |
The
first up-card in seven card stud. |
| Drop |
Money
lost. |
| Down to the felt |
Totally
out of money, broke. |
| Eight ball |
$800.00
|
| Fast |
Aggressive. |
| Fast company |
Tough
players. Sometimes meaning unscruppulous |
| Fifth Street |
The
fifth card dealt. |
| First to Speak |
In a
stud game, either the high or the low card must make a bet. |
| Fish |
A poor
player. A sucker. A 'pidgeon'. |
| Fishhooks |
(U.S)
Jacks. |
| Flop |
The
first three communual cards in Hold 'Em, Omaha. (Flop games) |
| Fold |
Pass
your hand. |
| Four Flush |
A hand
with four cards of the same suit. |
| Four of a kind |
Four
cards of the same rank. |
| Fourth Street |
The
fourth card dealt in a hand of poker. |
| Freezeout |
A poker tournament in which
only the initial entry is permitted, i.e. no re-entry once all your chips are
lost |
| Full House |
A five
card hand consisting of 'trips' and a 'pair'. |
| George |
(U.S) A
poor player. |
| Give the office |
(U.S) To
give a warning regarding cheating. |
| Glimmer |
Money |
| Going South |
Taking
money of the table, against the rules, in a cash game. |
| Goulash joint |
A
restaurant or bar that runs a regular card game hidden in a back
room. |
| Greek dealer |
A
cheating dealer. A mechanic. |
| Grinder |
An
un-ambitious player who only hopes to win a little money each day. Also known
as a 'leather ass.' |
| Gutshot |
One card
that will complete an inside straight draw. |
| Hanger |
A card
that juts out conspicuously when a cheater is dealing. |
| Heads Up |
A game
or a hand between two players. |
| High Hand |
Top
traditionally rated hand. (As opposed to Low Ball hands) |
| High Jack |
In a
flop game poker table the person to the right of the Cut Off (2 to the right of
the Button), a position often used to raise before the Cut Off gets a chance to
try and steal the blinds, so known as High Jack. |
| High Society |
The
highest denomination of chips in a card room. |
| Hold 'Em |
Poker
where the players have only two cards, both face down. A flop of five communual
cards gives the player a choice of five from seven to make the best possible
hand. |
| Juice |
(U.S) See 'Vig'. Money
taken as the rake in a game. |
| Kansas City |
Kansas
City lowball is Low Ball with the ace as high. Best hand is 23457. |
| Ladies |
Queens. |
| Live card |
A card
that has not been seen. |
| Live game |
A game
with lots of betting action. A 'loose' game. |
| Lock |
A hand
that is guaranteed to win at least part of the pot. |
| Mechanic |
A
cheating player, often by marking cards or using false deals. |
| Mechanic's grip |
The way
a cheater holds a deck to make it easy to deal 'seconds'. |
| Mitt joint |
(U.S) A
club where the house cheats the players, or one that turns a blind eye to
cheating in general. |
| No-limit |
A game
that allows a player to bet all his chips at any betting round. |
| Nuts, the |
The best
hand. |
| Nut straight |
The
highest possible straight. |
| Omaha |
Omaha is
a flop game dealt as Hold ' em but with four down-cards each. A hand is made
using five from a possible nine, but two and only two must be used from the
players hand. |
| On the finger |
(U.S)
Money given on credit. |
| On tilt |
Going
'on tilt' is a bad reaction to an unlucky hand. The result is wild
play. |
| Outs |
Ways of
improving your hand to win the pot. |
| Paint |
A Jack,
Queen or King. Picture card. Face card |
| Pair |
Two
cards of the same rank. |
| Pasadena |
Fold. |
| Pineapple |
A
variation on Hold'em where players receive three cards each and are forced to
discard one of them after the flop is dealt. Thus reverting to
Hold'em. |
| Play on your belly |
(U.S)
Playing honestly. |
| Poker Hand |
A
collection of exactly five cards that constitute a hand according to the
accepted list of hands. |
| Pokies |
Australian slang for poker machines. Anything you can poke a coin
into so it also covers slot machines |
| Pushka |
(U.S) An
arrangement between two or more of the players to share part of the pots win,
or more precisely, the container into which the shared chips are
played. |
| Quads |
Four of
a kind. |
| Rabbits |
Weak
players. |
| Rack |
Plastic,
wooden or metal tray to place rows of poker chips. |
| Rag |
A card,
usually a low card, that, when it appears, has no apparent impact on the
hand. |
| Railbirds |
Spectators. Kibitzers. |
| Railroad bible |
Deck of
cards. |
| Rainbow |
Three or
four cards of different suits. Applied to flops. |
| Raise |
Increase
the previous bet. |
| Rake |
The
percentage of a pot that the house keeps. |
| River |
The final (seventh) card
dealt in a poker hand. (the fifth flop card in flop games) |
| Road gang |
Team of
cheats. |
| Rock Garden |
A game
of tight players. |
| Rolled Up |
In Seven
Card Stud, three of a kind with the first three cards is known as being 'rolled
up'. |
| Round |
A round
can refer either to a round of betting or a round of hands. |
| Rounder |
(U.S) A
player who knows all the angles and earns his living at the poker
table. |
| Royal Straight flush |
An ace
high straight flush. |
| Seconds |
Cheating by dealing the second card instead of the top card. |
| Semi-bluff |
A bluff
where there is a chance that your hand can make a winning hand. |
| Seven Card Stud |
Popular
variant of stud. Seven cards each, dealt two down, four up, one
down. |
| Slow rolling |
An
annoying habit that means you slowly reveal that you have the winning
hand. |
| Small Blind |
See
Big Blind |
| Soft |
Easy |
| South |
(U.S)
Fold. |
| Spikes |
(U.S) A
pair of aces. |
| Splash the pot |
Loosely
put chips into a pot to obscure the actual amount. Not good. |
| Stack |
All your
chips. |
| Straighten Out |
(U.S) To
introduce an acquaintance to an underground poker club. |
| Straight Flush |
Five
consecutive cards of the same suit. |
| Tap |
Tap the
table means to check. Also (U.S) betting all your opponents money, forcing him
to go 'all in' if he calls the bet. |
| Tapioca |
(U.S)
Out of money. |
| Tell |
An
unconscious gesture that reveals information about your hand. |
| Texas Hold'em |
See
Hold'em. (The usual term) |
| Tight |
Conservative. |
| Trips |
Three
cards of the same rank. |
| Turn |
The
second to last, (sixth), card dealt in Hold 'Em. Fouth communial card, also
known as "4th street". |
| Under The Gun |
Often
abbreviated as UTG meaning the first person to act before the flop. One to the
left of the Big Blind at a poker table. |
| Underdog |
When two
hands face off, the underdog is the one that's less likely to win than the
other. |
| Vig |
Vig is
short for the word 'vigorish'. Also referred to as 'juice'(US). This can be
either; the tax that the house takes (rake) in each hand of poker or the
up-front fee. |
| White meat |
Profit. |
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