Big Slick Poker
Act: To make a play (bet, call, raise, or fold) at the required time.
Action Card: In Texas Hold 'em, a card in which two players hold that comes out on the Flop, usually causing lots of betting.
Add On: In a live game, to buy more chips before you have busted. In tournament play, a single rebuy for which all players are eligible regardless of their stack size. This is usually allowed only once, at the end of the rebuy period.
All Day: The total current posted bet. Used to indicate that the speaker is referring to the total bet, versus the difference the acting player would need to post.
All In: The act of betting all of your chips against another player.
Backdoor: A draw requiring two or more rounds to fill. For example, catching two consecutive cards in two rounds to fill a straight or flush.
Bankroll: The amount of money that a player has to wager for the duration of his or her poker career.
Big Blind: The larger of the two forced bets that kick off the first round of betting in each hand. It is required from the player sitting two spots to the left of te dealer, or dealer button, and is typically twice the size of the small blind.
Big Slick: Hole cards consisting of an ace and a king.
Board: The set of community cards.
Boat: Shorthand for a full boat, which is slang for a full house.
Bottom End: The lowest of several possible straights.
Boxed Card: A card encountered face-up in the assembled deck during the deal, as opposed to one overturned in the act of dealing. Most house rules treat a boxed card as if it didn't exist; that is, it is placed aside and not used. Different rules cover cards exposed during the deal.
Broadway: The ace high straight.
Bullet: An ace.
Button: The position on the table which represents the dealer’s position.
Buy-In: The minimum required amount of chips that must be "bought" to become involved in a game.
Buy The Pot: Making a bet when no one else is betting so as to force the other players to fold in order to win the pot uncontested.
Call The Clock: A method of discouraging players from taking an excessively long time to act. When someone calls the clock, the player has a set amount of time in which to make up his mind; if he fails to do so, his hand is immediately declared dead.
Check: To bet nothing.
Check-Raise: To check the first time the bet comes to you, and then raise the next time it comes to you, all within a single betting round. This tactic is often used to lure other players into committing more funds to the pot.
Chip Up: To exchange lower-denomination chips for higher-denomination chips.
Chop: To split a pot because of a tie, split-pot game, or player agreement.
Collusion: A form of cheating involving cooperation among two or more players.
Connectors: Two cards of consecutive rank.
Cowboys: A pair of Kings.
Crack: To beat a better hand. (Mostly heard in reference to the best Hold em hole cards, AA. eg "My aces were cracked again")
Dark: Describing an action taken before receiving information to which the player would normally be entitled.
Dominated hand: A hand that is extremely unlikely to win against another specific hand, even though it may not be a poor hand in its own right.
Donation: A call made by a player who fully expects to lose.
Donkey: Epithet for an inexperienced, unskilled, or foolish poker player.
Door Card: In Hold'em, the door card is the first visible card of the flop.
Drawing Dead: Playing a drawing hand that will lose even if successful.
Exposed Card: A card whose face has been deliberately or accidentally revealed to players normally not entitled to that information during the play of the game.
Family Pot: A deal in which every seated player called the first opening bet.
Final Table: In a multi-table tournament: to remain in the game long enough as to make it to the last round of players that can fit at one standard tournament table (usually 9 or 10 players).
Flash: To show the bottom card of the deck while shuffling.
Flop: The first three cards of the community.
Flush: A hand comprising five cards of the same suit.
Forward Motion: A house rule of some casinos states that if a player in turn picks up chips from his stack and moves his hand toward the pot ("forward motion with chips in hand"), this constitutes a commitment to bet (or call), and the player may not withdraw his hand to check or fold. Such a player still has the choice of whether to call or raise.
Fouled Hand: A hand that is ruled unplayable because of an irregularity, such as being found with too many or two few cards, having been mixed with cards of other players or the muck, having fallen off the table, etc.
Four of a Kind: A hand containing four cards of equal rank. Also known as "quads".
Free Card: A card dealt to the board of community cards, after a betting round in which no player bets.
Free Role: A tournament where the entry is free, or paid for by the house.
Full House: A hand with three cards of one rank and two of a second rank. Also known as "boat", or “full boat”.
Gut-shot: An inside straight draw.
High Card: A no pair hand, ranked according to its highest-ranking cards.
High Society: Large-denomination chips.
Hole Cards: Face-down cards. Also known as "pocket cards".
Immortal: Unbeatable; often said of a hand that a player knows cannot be beaten under the circumstances of play. Also known as "lock" or "nuts".
In the Money: To place high enough in a poker tournament to get prize money.
Kicker: Tie breaking card to determine the winner.
Laydown: A tough choice to fold a good hand in anticipation of superior opposition.
Limp in: To enter a pot by simply calling the big blind.
Live Cards: A player's hand is said to contain "live" cards if matching either of them on the board would give that player the lead over his opponent. Typically used to describe a hand that is weak, but not dominated.
Lock Up: To "lock up" a seat in a cash game means to place a poker chip, player's card, or other personal effect on the table in front of the seat, to signify that the seat is occupied even though the player may not be present.
Misdeal: A deal which is ruined for some reason and must be redealt.
Muck: To fold.
Muck Pile: A pile of discarded hole cards.
Offsuit: Cards that are not of the same suit.
Open Ended: An outside straight draw. Having a four card straight and looking for the fifth card for either end of the straight.
Over the Top: To reraise.
Paint: The face cards.
Play The Board: In games such as Texas Hold 'Em, where 5 community cards are dealt, if your best hand is on the board and you go to the showdown you are said to "play the board".
Pocket Pair: In community card poker or stud poker, when two of a player's private cards make a pair.
Poker Face: A blank face that does not reveal anything about the cards being held.
Post: To make the required small or big blind bet.
Pot-Committed: The situation where you can no longer fold because the size of the pot is so large compared to the size of your stack.
Probe Bet: A high bet to see how strong other players’ hands are.
Push: To put yourself all-in.
Quads: Four of a kind.
Rags: Worthless (or apparently worthless) cards.
Rainbow: Three or four cards of different suits.
Rebuy: An amount of chips purchased after the buy-in.
Redeal: To deal a hand again, possibly after a misdeal.
Represent: To represent a hand is to play as if you hold it (whether you actually hold it or are bluffing).
Reraise: Raise after one has been raised.
River: The last card dealt to the board in community card games. Also known as
River Rat: A player whose hand was dominated from the start, but improves his hand on the river to win the pot.
Runner: A tournament entrant, a contestant.
Runner-Rrunner: A hand made by hitting two consecutive cards on the turn and river. Also "backdoor".
Sandbag: To slow play.
Satellite: A tournament in which the prize is a free entrance to another (larger) tournament.
Second Pair: In community card poker games, a pair of cards of the second-top rank on the board.
Set: Three of a kind, when a player has a pocket pair and third card from the community.
Shark: A professional player.
Shootout: A poker tournament format where the last remaining player of a table goes on to play the remaining players of other tables.
Short Stack: A stack of chips that is relatively small for the stakes being played.
Shorthanded: A poker game that is played with around six players or less, as opposed to a full ring game, which is usually nine or ten players.
Showdown: After the remaining players have called the last bet, they must reveal their hands.
Side Pot: A separate pot created to deal with the situation of one player going "all in".
Sit And Go: A poker tournament which has no starting time that will start as soon as a set number of players, usually 9 or 10, sign up.
Slow Roll: To delay or avoid showing one's hand at showdown, forcing other players to expose their hands first.
Small Blind: The smaller of the two forced bets that kicks off the first round of betting in each hand. The small blind is required from the player sitting immediately to the left of the dealer, or the dealer button.
Small Blind Special: A situation in which a player is dealt weak hole cards in the small blind, but ends up making the best hand because they got to see a relatively inexpensive flop.
Snow: To play a worthless hand misleadingly in draw poker in order to bluff.
Splash The Pot: To throw one's chips in the pot in a disorderly fashion.
Stack: A collection of 20 poker chips of the same denomination. Aslo refers to all of the chips a player has.
Straddle: Killing the pot from first position; adding an extra, double-sided blind when you are first to act before the flop in hold’em, allowing you to be the last to act before the flop.
Straight: Five consecutive cards.
Straight Flush: Five consecutive cards, of the same suit.
String Bet: To call with one motion and raise with another, or to reach for more chips in the middle of laying a bet/raise without stating the intended amount.
Suck Out: To draw a winning hand despite poor odds.
Table Stakes: A popular rule that states you can’t add money to the bankroll you have on the table during a hand.
To Go: A term used to describe the amount that a player is required to call in order to stay in the hand.
Top Pair: In community card poker games, top pair is a pair of the same rank as the highest ranking card on the board.
Trey: A 3 card.
Trips: A three of kind made with two cards from the community and one card for a player’s hole cards.
Turn: Fourth community card on the board.
Under The Gun: The playing position to the direct left of the blinds. The player who is under the gun must act first on the first round of betting.
Up & Down Straight Draw: An open ended straight draw.
Walk: A walk is the situation where all players fold to the big blind.
Wheel: A 5-high straight, with the Ace playing low.
Wired Pair: A pocket pair.
