| 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 t |
A big card room with comforts. The opposite of a ceedy t. |
| 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 ing 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 |
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 t |
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 t |
(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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