|
|
Taken from Phil Hellmuth's Play Poker Like the Pros
Advertise (v): To make a loose play with the intent of looking like a loose player, thus inducing extra action from your opponents later.
All-In (adv): When you put all your chips in the pot: "Jeff just moved all-in for $95,000!"
American Airlines (n): Pocket aces.
Ante (n): Amount of money or chips that each player puts into the pot before the cards are dealt.
Courtesy of PokerComix.Com
Backdoor (n, adj): Catching two cards in a row to make a particular hand. "I made the backdoor flush and won a huge pot."
Bad Beat (n): Unlucky turn of events that causes you to lose a hand. "Ouch, that was a really bad beat!"
Courtesy of PokerComix.Com
Belly Buster (n, adj): Straight draw in which only one card will complete your hand, otherwise known as an "inside straight draw."
Big Blind (n): Blind that is two to the left of the button. The big blind always costs one betting unit.
Blind (n): Money posted directly to the left of the button, before the cards are dealt. There are two blinds, and the small blind is generally half the size of the big blind.
Bluff (n): Bet that conveys to others that you have a stronger hand than you actually have.
Board (n): Faceup cards in the middle of the table.
Boat (n): Full house.
Bubble (n): Last nonpaying spot in a poker tournament. For example, nineteenth place in a tournament that pays eighteen players.
Courtesy of PokerDoodle.Com
|
|
|
Busted (adj, v): To be out of money, to run out of chips in a poker tournament.
Button (n): Physical and symbolic designation of the person who is "dealing" and therefore last to act in the betting rounds.
Buy-In (n): Amount of money you start playing with in a game, or the amount it costs to enter a poker tournament.
Call (v): To match another player's bet. When someone bets, you may fold, call, or raise.
Calling Station (n): Someone who calls others players too often.
Courtesy of PokerDoodle.Com
Check (v): When no one has bet yet, you also have the option not to bet, without folding your hand.
Check-Raise (v): To check and then raise within one betting round. You may check initially and then, when it is your turn to act again, raise someone else's bet.
Community Card (n): Card that may be used by each player at the table.
Cowboys (n): Pair of kings.
Deal (v): Giving out cards to the players and board.
Double Up (v): Increase your chip stack 100%.
Draw (n): Situation in which a player needs one card to complete a poker hand.
Drawing Dead (n): Used to describe a situation in which a player cannot win the hand, regardless of what cards come up.
Ducks (n): Pocket deuces or 2s.
Early Position (n): One of the three positions to the immediate left of the big blind.
Fifth Street (n): The final face up card dealt and the last round of betting.
Final Table (n): Final 9 players remaining in a tournament.
Flop (n): First three cards dealt face up. All three cards are flipped up at once, and they are community cards (all players use them).
Flush Draw (n): Situation in which a player has 4 cards of the same suit, thus needing only one more of that suit to make a flush hand.
Fold (v, n): Concede the pot either by throwing your hand away or by a verbal declaration ("I fold").
Fourth Street (n): The dealing of the 4th community card and the ensuing round of betting.
Hand (n): Refers to your cards, or to the process of dealing the cards until the winning of the pot.
Heads Up (n, adv): Used to describe a situation in which poker is played one-on-one.
High Society (n): A poker chip worth $100. In the movie Rounders, Matt Damon says, "Give me three racks of high society chips..." A rack has 100 chips in it, so Matt ordered $30,000 worth of chips!
High Hand (n): Hand that is competing for the high side of the pot.
Hole Cards (n): Player's private facedown cards that only she can see.
Hot (adj): Used to describe a player who is winning more than her share of pots. |
