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Poker Glossary ace high - A five-card hand containing an ace but no pair aces full - A full house with three aces and any pair all-in - To run out of chips while betting or calling bad beat - A bad beat is a loss in which the losing player had the better odds on the winning player earlier in the hand bankroll - The amount of money you have available to wager big slick - Ace and King boat - Full House bullet - Ace button - A white acrylic disk to indicate who is the (nominal) dealer buy-in - The minimum amount of money required by a player to sit down in a particular poker game call station - A player who calls a lot, but doesn't raise or fold much cash-in - To leave the game and convert one's chips to cash, either with the dealer or at the cage cash-out - To leave a game and cash in one's chips at the cage cowboys - A pair of kings deuce - A two dominated hand - A hand that will almost always lose to a better hand that people usually play. For instance, A5 is 'dominated' by AJ. With the exception of strange flops (e.g. 5-5-x, A-5-x), it will always lose to AJ draw dead - Try to make a hand that, even if made, will not win the pot. If you're drawing to make a straight, and your opponent already has a flush, you are 'drawing dead' drawing hand - A potentially strong hand requiring a particular card from the draw to make it family pot - A pot in which most of the players at the table are still involved at the end of the hand fish - A poor player; an amateur who is losing money flop - The first three community cards dealt in Texas Hold`em and Omaha Poker freeroll - A poker tournament with no cash entry fee but still offers cash prizes gutshot straight - A straight filled 'inside'. If you have 10d-9d, the flop comes 8c-6h-Kc, and the turn is the 7h, you've made your gutshot straight heads up - A pot that is being contested by only two players hit - As in 'the flop hit me.' It means the flop contained cards that help your hand. If you have 910, and the flop comes 9-9-2, it hit you kicker - An unpaired card used to determine the better of two near-equivalent hands limp - To enter the round by calling big blind rather than raising monster - A very big hand move-in - To go all-in muck - The pile of folded and burned cards in front of the dealer nut flush - The highest possible flush that can be formed with the cards on the board nut straight - the highest possible straight with the cards on the board nuts - The best possible hand given the board odds - The probability of making a hand versus the probability of not making the hand offsuit - A Texas Hold'em Poker starting hand in which the two cards are of different suits Pot - The money gathered in the middle of the table from blinds, bets, and raises Pot Odds - The amount of money in the pot compared to the amount you must put in the pot to continue playing pre-flop - Before the flop quads - Four of a kind rainbow - A flop that contains three different suits rake - The house cut of each pot re-buy - To buy more chips ring game - A regular poker game as opposed to a tournament river - The fifth and final community card rock - A player who plays very tight, raises only with the best hands satellite - A small-stakes tournament whose winner obtains cheap entry into a bigger tournament semi-bluff - To bet with a hand which isn't the best hand, but which has a reasonable chance of improving set - Three of a kind when you have two of the rank in your hand, and there is one on the board suited - A Texas Hold'em Poker starting hand in which the two cards are the same suit tell - A clue or hint that a player unknowingly gives about the strength of his hand tilt - To play wildly or recklessly, trying wild bluffs, raising with bad hands etc. turn - The fourth community card wheel - A straight Ace-2-3-4-5 |
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