Poker Terms
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Poker Terms: Alphabetical Listing
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Section: A
- Ace-to-five lowball
- Ace-to-six lowball
- Act/Action
- Action button
- Action Card
- Action only
- Active player
- Add-on
- Advertise
- Aggressive, aggression
- Air
- All in
- Angle
- Ante off
- Ante
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Section: B
- Back in
- Back into
- Backdoor
- Backraise
- Bad beat
- Bank
- Bankroll
- Behind
- Bet
- Betting structure
- Big bet game
- Big bet
- Big blind
- Blank
- Blaze
- Bleed
- Blind off, blinded
- Blind stud
- Blind
- Blocker
- Blocking bet
- Bluff
- Board
- Boat
- Both ways
- Bottom end
- Bottom pair, bottom set
- Bounty
- Box
- Boxed card
- Break
- Brick & mortar
- Brick
- Bridge order
- Bring in
- Broadway
- Brush
- Bubble
- Buck
- Bug
- Bully
- Burn card, burn
- Busted
- Buy-in
- Buy short
- Buy the button
- Buy the pot
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Section: C
- Call the clock
- Call
- Calling station
- Cap game
- Cap
- Case card
- Cash game
- Cash plays
- Catch perfect
- Catch up
- Catch
- Center pot
- Check out
- Check-raise
- Check
- Chip declare
- Chip dumping
- Chip leader
- Chip Up
- Chip
- Chopping the blinds
- Closed
- Coffee housing
- Cold call
- Cold deck
- Collusion
- Color change, color up
- Combo, combination game
- Come bet, on the come
- Community card
- Complete hand
- Completion
- Connectors
- Continuation bet
- Cooler
- Countdown
- Counterfeit
- Cow
- Cripple
- Crying call
- Cut card
- Cut
- Cutoff
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Section: D
- Dark
- Dead blind
- Dead button
- Dead hand
- Dead man's hand
- Dead money
- Deal twice
- Deal
- Dealer
- Dealer's choice
- Declare
- Defense
- Deuce-to-seven
- Deuce
- Dirty stack
- Discard
- Dominated hand
- Door card
- Double-ace flush
- Double-board, double-flop
- Double-draw
- Double raise
- Double suited
- Double up, double through
- Downcard
- Drag light
- Draw, drawing hand
- Drawing dead
- Drawing live
- Drawing thin
- Drop
- Dry ace
- Dry pot
- Duplicate
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Section: F
- Family pot
- Fast
- Feeder
- Felt
- Fifth street
- Fill, fill up
- Final table
- Five of a kind
- Fixed limit, flat limit
- Flash
- Flat call
- Float
- Floorman, floorperson
- Flop game
- Flop
- Flush
- Fold equity
- Fold
- Forced-move
- Forward motion
- Fouled hand
- Four-flush
- Four of a kind
- Four-straight
- Fourth street
- Free card
- Freeroll
- Freezeout
- Full bet rule
- Full house, full boat, full hand, full
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Section: H
- Half bet rule
- Hand-for-hand
- Hand history
- Hanger
- Heads up
- Heater
- High card
- High hand, high
- High-low, high-low split
- Hijack seat
- Hole cam
- Hole cards, hole
- Home game
- Horse
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Section: I
- Ignorant end, idiot end
- Implied pot odds, implied odds
- Improve
- In the middle
- In the money
- In turn
- Inside straight
- Insurance
- Irregular declaration
- Irregularity
- Isolation
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Section: K
- Kicker
- Kill game, kill pot
- Kitty
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Section: L
- Lag
- Laydown
- Lead
- Leg-up, leg-up button
- Level
- Light
- Limit
- Limp, limp in
- Limp-reraise
- Live bet
- Live cards
- Live game
- Live poker
- Lock up
- Loose
- Low
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Section: M
- M-ratio
- Made hand
- Match the pot
- Micro-limit
- Misdeal
- Missed blind
- Move in
- Muck
- Multi-way pot
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Section: N
- Negative Freeroll
- No-limit
- Nut hand (the nuts)
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Section: O
- Offsuit
- One-chip rule
- One-ended straight draw
- One-eyed royals
- Open-ended straight draw, open-ended
- Open limp
- Open
- Openers
- Option
- Outs
- Outside straight draw
- Overbet
- Overcall
- Overcard
- Overpair
- Overs
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Section: P
- Paint
- Pair
- Passive
- Pat
- Pay off
- Penny ante
- Perfect
- Pick-up
- Play the board
- Pocket cards
- Pocket pair
- Poker face
- Position bet
- Position
- Post dead
- Post oak bluff
- Post
- Pot-committed
- Pot-limit
- Pot odds
- Pot
- Pre-flop
- Probe bet
- Prop, proposition player
- Protection, protect
- Push
- Put on
- Put the clock (on someone)
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Section: Q
- Quads
- Qualifier, qualifying low
- Quarter
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Section: R
- Rabbit hunt
- Rack
- Rag
- Rail
- Railbird
- Rainbow
- Raise
- Rake
- Rakeback
- Range of hands
- Rathole
- Rebuy
- Redeal
- Redraw
- Represent
- Reraise
- Ring game
- River
- Rock
- Rolled-up trips
- Rounder
- Royal cards
- Runner-runner
- Rush
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Section: S
- Sandbag
- Satellite
- Scare card
- Scoop
- Second pair
- Sell
- Semi-bluff
- Set-up
- Set
- Sevens rule
- Shark
- Shill
- Shoe
- Shootout
- Short buy
- Short stack
- Shorthanded
- Showdown
- Side game
- Side pot
- Sit and go
- Slow play
- Slow roll
- Small blind
- Smooth call
- Snow
- Soft-play
- Splash the pot
- Split two pair
- Split
- Spread-limit
- Spread
- Squeeze play
- Stack
- Stakes
- Stand pat
- Starting hand
- Steal
- Steam
- Stop and go
- Straddle bet
- Straight flush
- Straight
- Strategy card
- String bet
- Structured
- Stud
- Suck Out
- Suited connectors
- Suited
- Super satellite
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Section: T
- Table stakes
- Tag
- Tell
- Third man walking
- Three bet, three betting, 3-bet, 3bet
- Three of a kind
- Three pair
- Tight
- Tilt
- To go
- Toke
- Top kicker
- Top pair
- Top two
- Trey
- Trips
- Turn
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Section: U
- Under the gun
- Underdog
- Up the ante
- Up
- Upcard
- Upstairs
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Section: V
- Value bet
- Vigorish, vig