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Date Posted: 09:44:51 02/03/05 Thu
Author: partypoker
Subject: Online Poker Terms - Poker Dictionary

A-Game
1) The highest-stakes game in a given establishment. 2) One's best game, in terms of the quality of one's play.
ABC
An ABC player is a player who is very predictable. This player generally reads a poker book or two and follows them to the word. They always play hands the same way and are generally pretty tight. These types of players are often winners at lower stakes and loose games but are easily crushed by advanced players.
Able
An obsolete term for the player immediately to the left of the dealer in games that use an automatic betting scheme. Also called edge, elder hand, or eldest hand. Sometimes the player in that position is the last to bet before the draw, which is equivalent to the situation involving an under-the-gun blind.
According to Hoyle
With respect to the rules of poker, proper; a vague phrase invoking authority.
Ace
The highest or lowest card in the deck. If the cards are arranged in order, the ace either starts this sequence: A-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-T-J-Q-K; or finishes this one: 2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-T-J-Q-K-A. In high poker, the ace is the highest card in a hand, with one exception: when it is part of a 5-high straight, that is, in this hand: A-2-3-4-5, of mixed suits.
Ace in the Hole
In a stud game, having an ace as one's down card or one of one's down cards. This being a desirable condition, the phrase passed into general usage as an advantage or resource kept in reserve until an opportunity presents itself.
Ace Out
To win (perhaps by bluffing) while holding an ace high hand (that is, a relatively worthless hand, since it doesn't contain even a pair). This phrase passed into general usage with the meaning of winning by deception or just barely beating someone. (If your opponent holds a totally worthless hand, an ace-high hand would just barely beat him; that is, you would ace him out.)
Ace to Five
In a game played for low, ace to five means straights and flushes don't count and the ace can be used as a low card. The best possible hand in an ace to five game is therefore A2345 (often called a wheel).
Ace Up the Sleeve
Describing the situation in which a cheater has withdrawn an ace from the deck to be introduced into the game later, or, more generally, has taken some unfair advantage. The phrase passed into general usage to describe the situation in which someone is hiding some probably unfair advantage.
Ace Working
An ace in a hand.
Ace-High
A five-card hand with an ace but no pair; if nobody has at least a pair, it's the winning hand (similarly "King-high", "Queen-high etc.).
Ace-to-Five Lowball
In a game played for low, ace to five means straights and flushes don't count and the ace can be used as a low card. The best possible hand in an ace to five game is therefore A2345 (often called a wheel).
Acepots
A form of high draw poker, in which a player cannot open the pot without holding at least two aces as openers.
Aces and Spaces
A five-card hand consisting of two aces and three other worthless cards.
Aces Full
A full house with three aces and any pair.
Aces Over
1) Pairs, one of which is aces. 2) A full house with aces over any pair.
Aces Up
A hand that contains two pairs, one of which is Aces.
Acey-Deucey
1) Two pairs, aces and deuces. 2) In hold 'em, A-2 as one's first two cards. 3) A non-poker game, usually played in home games, but also found rarely in casinos, in which players bet that a third card in succession will fall in rank between the first two, which are dealt face up before the bet. Sometimes called Red Dog.
Acey-Uppy
Pairs, one of which is aces.
Act
An intentional tell intended to give false information about a hand.
Action
Checking/Betting/Raising. A game in which players are playing a lot of pots is considered an "action" game.
Action Button
A bet that must be posted, in a seven-card stud high-low game, by the winner of a scoop pot above a certain size, signifying a full bet (a blind raise, in other words), rather than just a call of the original forced bet. Any player who acts before the action button can only call the bring-in. The holder of the action button essentially raises blind, and then, when it gets back to those who have only so far called the opening bet, they can either call or raise. For example, if the low card normally must bet $1 in a $5-$10 game, and there is an action button out, anyone who calls the $1 is committing to bet $5 later. No one would call the $1 without intending at least to call the blind raise by the action button. Whether the action button acts in turn, or after everyone else has acted, depends on the card room.
Action Only
In many card rooms, with respect to an all-in bet, only a full bet is considered a legitimate wager, in terms of whether this constitutes a raise that can be re-raised. Anything less than a full bet is considered to be action only, that is, other players can call such a bet but not raise it. For example, Chloe bets $10. Henry calls. John goes all in for $14. When the bet gets back to Chloe, she is permitted only to call the extra $4; the same goes for John. See discussion at full bet.
Active Player
Any player who is still in the hand.
Add-on
A purchase of more chips (optional) at the end of the re-buy period in a tournament.
Advantage
Same as edge (An advantage over an opponent, either specific or subjective).
Advantage Player
A thief or cheater, that is, someone who wins by taking an advantage.
Advantage Tool
A cheating device, as a marked card or a mechanical device for hiding one or more cards, as, for example, a holdout machine.
Advertise
To make a bluff with the deliberate intention of being exposed as a loose player. Advertising usually means showing down a mediocre hand, to give the impression that you play overly loose or that you play a generally weak game. The idea is that other players will then give you more action when you make a legitimate hand. Since people are bad at revising first impressions, this potentially beneficial effect can be long-lasting. Typical advertising plays in hold'em might be to show down top pair with a weak kicker (e.g., K2), middle pair, or a gut shot draw that missed. These hands have marginal intrinsic value, but playing them early in a session might pay off later. Of course, it's best to advertise if you actually want to be called down more often, e.g., at an especially tight table. At a table full of calling stations, it might be unnecessary or even harmful. Advertising can also mean anything you do at the poker table to manipulate how other players assess you.
After-Hours Game
A private game, played after a card room closes for the night, often held in a motel or hotel room, and sometimes crooked.
Age
An obsolete term for the player immediately to the left of the dealer in games that use an automatic betting scheme. Also called edge, elder hand, or eldest hand. Sometimes the player in that position is the last to bet before the draw, which is equivalent to the situation involving an under-the-gun blind.
Agent
1) Player cheat who frequents casinos and works with casino dealers and employees. The partner of a thief in a cheating scheme. 2) Person who for a fee or commission lures people to a crooked game to be fleeced.
Aggressive
Adjective to describe a player who raises and re-raises and rarely calls.
Ahead
1) Winning. 2) With regard to a reference position at the table, acting before (usually immediately before). If the deal is one position to your right, you are ahead of the deal. If a player is sitting to your right, he acts ahead of you.
Ainsworth
In hold'em, 6-2 as one's first two cards.
Air
1) In a lowball game, letting another player know whether you are going to draw cards or not, sometimes letting the player know how many, usually with the intention of getting that player into the pot. Usually part of the phrase give air. "Gimme some air. I'll draw two if you're drawing one." 2) Inadvertently exposing cards; usually part of the phrase put air into [a hand]. "You'll like sitting next to Johnny; he puts a lot of air into his hand." That is, if you sit next to Johnny, the way he holds his cards you can often see some of them, which, presumably, gives you an edge (albeit an unethical one) on him.
Ajax
The name of an Ace and Jack in the pocket, suited or otherwise.
Alabama Night Riders
Three kings.
Alcohol
An announcement by a player that they will make the minimum bet necessary to continue in the hand.
Alexander
The king of clubs. Probably comes from Alexander the Great.
All Black
Having a spade or club flush. Also, all blue, all purple.
All Blue
Having a spade or club flush. Also, all black.
All Green
Having a flush.
All Pink
Having a heart or diamond flush. Also, all red.
All Purple
Having a spade or club flush. Also, all black, all blue.
All Red
Having a heart or diamond flush. Also, all pink.
All the Way
Betting all one's chips, usually preceded by go.
All the Way in One Play
Betting all one's chips, usually preceded by go.
All-In
When a player bets all his/her chips.
All-In Over the Top
Raising with all of your chips after an opponents bet.
Alone Player
A card thief working with no confederates.
AMC
Abbreviation of exlamation "All my chips!" An announcement, usually in a no-limit game, on his turn that a player is betting or raising all of his chips.
American Airlines
Two Aces.
Ammo
Chips.
Ammunition
Chips.
An Ace Working
An ace in hand.
Anaconda
A form of seven stud in which cards are passed to left and right, sometimes multiple times, and sometimes with five cards chosen at the end and rolled, that is, exposed one at a time. Also called pass the trash, Screwy Louie
Angle
An action that isn't against the rules, but still incorporates unfair tactics.
Angle-Shooting
Using unfair tactics.
Announce
In high/low games, declaring one's hand as high or low or both ways (usually done with chips in hand). Usually played in home games.
Announced Bet
A verbal declaration by a player, in turn, in a no-limit or spread game, of the amount of his bet, or, in other games, that he is betting. In games in which announced bets are permitted, they are usually binding (when made in turn).
Ante
1) Money placed in the pot before the hand is begun. 2) The player to the left of the dealer, usually in an ante and straddle game.
Ante and Straddle
A game in which the player to the left of the dealer (the ante) puts in (usually) one chip before getting any cards, and the player to his left (the straddle) puts in two chips. (Sometimes the dealer also puts in one chip.) The first player to have a choice on making a bet after having seen his cards is the player two positions to the left of the dealer. This is an old name for what is now called a two-blind traveling blind game. This is similar to a blind and straddle game. Also see little blind, middle blind, big blind.
Ante Bean
An ante, or a chip used to ante.
Ante Up
Put one's ante in the pot.
Apologizer
Same as apology card.
Apology Card
In lowball, the appearance in the current hand of the card that would have made one's hand the previous hand. For example, a player draws to A-2-3-4 and catches a four. Next hand, he looks at the first card he receives from the dealer. It's a five, which he turns face up for the whole table to admire (presumably because some of them may never have seen a five before), while saying, "There it is, the apology card."
Apple
Big game, often the biggest game in a particular club.
Argine
The queen of clubs. May be an anagram of Regina (queen in Latin), or a corruption of Argea.
Arkansas Flush
Four-card flush.
Around-the-Corner Straigh
In high draw poker, a special straight, a nonstandard hand sometimes given value in a private or home game, five cards in a series in which the sequence of cards is considered to continue from king through ace, as, for example, J-Q-K-A-2. Sometimes the hand ranks between three of a kind and a "normal" straight; sometimes it ranks between a "normal" straight and a flush.
Artist
A cheat who manipulates the deck. One who unfairly manipulates the cards, such as a cheat who deals cards from the bottom instead of from the top of the deck (where they should come from), or from the middle, or deals the second card from the top, or who falsely shuffles the cards so as to arrange them in a manner he has predetermined, or who palms cards, or uses any other of scores of cheating methods involving card manipulation or sleight of hand. Synonym - Mechanic.
As Nas
An ancient Persian game that some say is an ancestor of poker.
Asian Five-Card Stud
A California game, a form of five-card stud played with a stripped deck.
Asian Games
The former name for California games. The term is still sometimes used in casinos and card-rooms. Se "California games".
Asian Stud
A California game, a form of five-card stud played with a stripped deck.
Assault Rifle
In Omaha, hole cards that are A-K-4-7 of any suit(s)
Assigned Bettor
The player who is first to bet in a particular round.
Auto Ante
This option determines if you have to manually ante on each new hand. Generally it is easier to let the computer ante for you, but it is more realistic to ante up yourself)
Automatic
Being in a must-bet situation.
Automatic Bet
A bet, often a bluff, made, regardless of one's cards, in a situation in which the bet usually wins. For example, in a lowball game, if one player drew four cards and passes after the draw, and the next player drew one, the latter almost always makes an automatic bet, because most of the time that player has the best hand and the few times that he doesn't, the drawer of four cards doesn't call anyway.
Automatic Bluff
A bet, often a bluff, made, regardless of one's cards, in a situation in which the bet usually wins. For example, in a lowball game, if one player drew four cards and passes after the draw, and the next player drew one, the latter almost always makes an automatic bet, because most of the time that player has the best hand and the few times that he doesn't, the drawer of four cards doesn't call anyway.
Ax
The percentage of a pot kept by the management to pay expenses; usually called drop. Term used to describe a hand containing an Ace and any other card.
B&M
Abreviated from "Brick and mortar". A cardroom having a real physical location, with live players, as opposed to an online.
Baby
Any of the four non-aces needed for the lowest possible hand (2,3,4,5).
Back Into a Hand
To draw cards that make a hand that is different from the hand you were originally trying to make.
Back-to-back
A holding of a pair in five-card stud (when the pair was formed with the first two cards dealt, one in the hole, and the other as the first upcard). Can be referred to as "wired".
Backdoor
Making a hand other than the one intended. Example: Having J/10 of Clubs with a flop of A of Clubs, 5 of Clubs. 6 of Spades. The turn and river are K & Q of Hearts. You made a straight instead of the intended (and more likely) flush.
Backdoor Flush
When you have three cards that would support a flush, but you need the turn and river to make a flush.
Backdoor Straight
When you have three cards that would support a straight, but you need the turn and river to make a straight.
Backer
A nonplayer who finances an active player.
Backraise
A re-raise from a player who originally called.
Bad Beat
When a hand is beaten by a lucky draw.
Bankroll
The amount of money you have.
Barn
Short for a Full Barn which is slang for a Full House.
Battle of the Blinds
When everyone folds to the players who have forced bets.
Bay and a Gray
A $6 bet made with a red $5 chip and a white $1 chip, named after the color of horses.
Beat the Board
Or Beat the Table. To have a hand better than all others showing.
Behind
1) Losing. 2) With regard to a reference position at the table, acting after (usually immediately after). If the deal is one position to your left, you are behind the deal. If a player is sitting to your left, he acts behind you.
Behind a Log
1) Describing a situation in which a player is far ahead of a game and thus playing only premium hands. 2) (of a poker player) playing conservatively because he is winning and wants to protect his gains.
Belly Buster
A draw and/or catch to an Inside Straight.
Bet
To place chips into the pot.
Bet Blind
Make a bet without looking at one's cards.
Bet for Value
Bet a hand with the intention of getting called by one or more lesser hands, as opposed to getting the others to fold. Usually implies betting a hand that has only a slight edge, and one that a conservative player would likely check with. Also value bet.
Bet in the Dark
To announce a bet before cards are dealt or looking at your hand.
Bet Into
To wrest the initiative from a player who bet strongly the previous round, by betting instead of checking.
Bet Odds
The odds you get as a result of evaluating the number of callers to a raise.
Bet the Limit
To bet the maximum amount allowed.
Bet the Pot
To bet an amount of chips approximately equal to the amount of chips in the pot.
Betting Stakes
The dollar limits of all bets and raises permitted.
Bicycle or Bike
1) The lowest possible holding (5,4,3,2,1) in lowball and high-low poker. 2) Ubiquitous design on the back of cards in the USA, produced at the rate of 30,000 a day by the US Playing Card Company; hence "The Bicycle Club" in Bell Gardens, near Los Angeles, California
Big Blind
A designated amount that is placed by the player sitting in the second position, clockwise from the dealer, before any cards are dealt. (Players joining a game in progress must post a Big Blind, but may do so from any position.) In World Poker Tour (tournament play) this amount increases after each timed round.
Big Bobtail
An open-ended 4-card straight flush.
Big Dog
An underdog. The person who has a very low chance of winning.
Big Pair
A Pair with a value of 10 or greater.
Big Slick
A hand that contains an Ace and a King (A-K).
Big Tiger
A nonstandard hand sometimes given value in a private or home game, five cards 8 to king with no pair, which ranks above a tiger and just below a flush.
Blank
A useless card.
Blaze
1) A hand consisting of five face cards. It has no ranking in cardroom poker, though sometimes does in private games. The term is often used by lowball players to embellish their hard-luck stories. 2) A nonstandard hand sometimes given value in a private or home game, consisting of five face cards, ranking between two pair and three of a kind.
Bleed
Win a lot of money a little at a time, from either a game or a particular player.
Blind
The bet(s) that must be made by the two players sitting directly to the dealer's left which will start the action on the first round of betting. The blinds are posted before any cards are dealt. (A "Blind" bet is one that is made in the dark without looking at your cards.)
Blind Bet
To bet before looking at one's hand
Blind Raise
A game or situation in which the player to the left of the dealer (the blind) puts in (usually) one chip before getting any cards and the next player puts in two chips. This is a forced raise.
Blind Robber
Someone who steals the blind (usually from the middle blind position to win the big blind, or the dealer position to win both blinds), that is, opens a pot without having good cards, hoping the blind will just throw his cards away and the opener can win the chips represented by the blind or blinds without having to actually play the hand. See steal the blinds.
Blistering
A cheater's technique to mark cards with his fingernail or a device.
Blocker
Required card already in another player's hand.
Blow Back
To lose all the (or most) of the money you have won.
Bluff
To make other players believe that one has a better hand than he/she might otherwise have by betting or raisingwhen they do not have the best hand.
Boardcards
The cards that are dealt face-up in a poker game for all players to see. In flop games, five cards are dealt face-up in the center of the table. In Seven Card Stud, four cards are dealt face-up in front of each player.
Boat
Any three cards of the same number or face value, plus any other two cards of the same number or face value. A full house.
Bobtail Straight
1) Same as an Open End Straight. Four cards to a straight in denomination sequence. 2)A nonstandard hand, four cards to a straight, that ranks higher than one pair and lower than a four-card flush.
Boss
Strongest hand at a stage in the betting.
Bottom Pair
When a player uses the lowest card on the flop to make a pair with one of his own cards.
Boxed Card
A card turned the wrong way in a deck. 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.
Bring It In
To start the betting on the first round.
Bring-In
The forced bet made on the first round of betting by the player who is dealt the lowest card showing in Seven Card Stud and Stud 8 or Better. In Razz (Lowball) it is the highest card showing
Broadway
An Ace high straight.
Broomcorn's Uncle
A player who antes himself broke.
Bubbled
To be the eliminated in a tournament in the final place before the rpize-money.
Buck
The original "Button" (q.v.) was a clasp knife with a buckhorn handle; hence "The buck stops here".
Bug
In some variants of poker, the bug is a restricted wild card, which can either represent an ace or fill a gap in a straight or flush
Bull The Game
To bluff frequently.
Bullets
A pair of Aces.
Bump
To raise.
Buried Pair
In stud games, a pair in the hole.
Burn
To discard the top card of the deck prior to dealing.
Burn Card
A card dealt face down prior to dealing the round of cards.
Bury Card
A card taken from the top of the deck and placed in the middle.
Bust
A worthless hand that has failed to improve as the player hoped; a busted hand.
Bust a Player
To eliminate a player from the game by taking all of his or her chips.
Bust Out
To lose all your chips and thus be eliminated from a tournament.
Busted Hand
1) A worthless hand (Bust). 2) A hand that failed to fill a straight or a flush on the draw.
Button
Also known as the dealer button, it is a small round disk that is moved from player to player in a clockwise direction following each hand, to theoretically indicate the dealer of each hand.
Buy
To make a large bet in the hope of discouraging other players.
Buy-In
The minimum amount of money required by a player to sit down in a particular poker game.

Buy-in Limit
This is the minimum amount you must bring into a 1-on-1 game. This is applicable to Seven-Card Stud Poker.
By Me
An expression meaning to pass or check.
C-Note
A hundred-dollar bill.

California games
A set of cardroom games, formerly called Asian games, some of which resemble poker, but are not strictly poker, in which players place bets before receiving the hands on which they wager; others resemble blackjack. In these games, to get around the legal restriction against banking games, the only interest the house has is to take a portion of every bet; one player acts as banker, playing one hand against each player in turn. These games include pai gow (played with tiles, and not a card game at all), pai gow poker, super nine (also called super pan nine), California blackjack (also called X blackjack, where X is the name of the club), California Aces (a variant of blackjack in which the object is to get closest to 22, with two aces being the best hand; similarly often called X aces), 13-card (not played with a banker).
California Lowball
Ace-to-five lowball with a joker.
Call
Matching a bet amount.

Call Cold
To call both a bet and raise(s).
Caller
One who makes a call bet.
Calling Station
A passive and loose player who does not raise much, but calls more than he or she should.

Cap
1) Put in the maximum number of raises in a round of betting; usually followed by the bet, the bets, or the betting. Make the maximum raise permitted in the current round. "I'll cap it" means that someone has put in the, say, third raise.
2) After dealing the first round in a draw game, put a chip on top of the undealt cards for protection; usually followed by the deck.
3) The point at which the rules dictate that the maximum bets have been made. "The cap is lifted heads up."
Capping a Raise
The final raise in most games, the third raise in most games.
Cardroom
The room or space in a casino where poker is played.

Cards Speak
Your hand is the most favorable possible combination of cards, no matter how you call it.
Case Card
The fourth and last card of a particular rank to become available.
Case Chips
A player's last chips.
Cash In
To exchange poker chips for cash and then to quit (Cash Out).
Cash Out
To leave a game and convert your chips to cash.
Casino Poker
Public poker played in gambling casinos.
Catch
When a draw makes a hand, players may comment "Nice Catch".
Catch Bluffing
To win a hand by calling or raising someone who is bluffing.
Center Pot
The main pot, as opposed to any side pots (q.v.)
Change Gears
Changing your style of play.
Chase
To play a hand that is most likely worse than at least one other player.
Chat
A feature of most online poker games where players can communicate to each other by typing messages.
Cheater
A player who intentionally violates the rules to gain advantage unavailable to others.
Check
1) When it's a player's turn to act and there has been no action in front of them and he opts not to bet, he "checks." 2) Alternative name for poker chip.
Check Blind
To check without looking at one's own cards. Also Check in the Dark
Check-Raise
When a player first checks and then raises in a betting round.

Cheese
A very substandard starting hand.
Chip
A round token used in place of cash at a gaming table.
Chop
To return the blinds to the players who posted them and move on to the next hand if no other players call. It also means to "split the pot".
Cinch Hand
The nuts. A hand that can't be beaten
Coffeehousing
This is when Players chat about a hand they are involved in, with the intent of misleading or manipulating other Players.
Cold Call
To call more than one bet in a single action. For instance, suppose the first player to act after the big blind raises. Now any player acting after him must call two bets "cold". This is different from calling a single bet and then calling a subsequent raise.
Cold Deck
Deck of cards that a cheat has fixed. A deck, presumably with preset hands in it (usually with several good hands, the best of which will go to the dealer or his confederate), surreptitiously substituted by a cheat for the deck he is supposed to be dealing. So called because, after cards are dealt for awhile, they warm a bit to the touch, while a cold deck actually feels cool.
Cold Hands
1) Showdown hands. 2) A run of poor hands.
Collection
The fee charged in a game (taken either out of the pot or from each player).
Collection Drop
A fee charged for each hand dealt.
Color Change
A request to change the chips from one denomination to another.
Come Hand
A drawing hand (probably from the craps term).
Come Over the Top
To raise or re-raise another players bet.
Common Card
A card dealt faceup to be used by all players at the showdown in the games of stud poker whenever there are insufficient cards left in the deck to deal each player a card individually.
Community cards
Cards that are turned face up in the middle of the table, and which belong to all players still in the hand. Community cards are used in Hold 'em and Omaha.
Comp Program
Or comps, most sites online offer players cash incentives to signup and points or other benefits for loyalty
Complete Hand
A hand that is defined by all five cards - a straight, flush, full house, four of a kind, or straight flush.
Complete the Bet
To increase an all-in bet or forced bet to a full bet in limit poker.
Concealed Pair
Both of the pair cards are face down.
Connector
A hold'em starting hand in which the two cards are one apart in rank. Examples: KQs, 76.
Conservative
(of a poker player or play) tending to bet only with a good hand.
Conservative Play
A poker strategy that involves betting only hands that have a good chance of winning.
Counterfeit
To make your hand less valuable because of board cards that duplicate it. Example: you have 87 and the flop comes 9-T-J, so you have a straight. Now an 8 comes on the turn. This has counterfeited your hand and made it almost worthless.
Court Card
A jack, queen or king.
Cowboys
Pair of kings as your hole cards in Texas Hold em. A very strong hand.
Crack
To beat a hand - typically a big hand. You hear this most often used to apply to pocket aces: "Third time tonight I've had pocket aces cracked".
Cranberry
A player who calls against the pot-odds.
Crap Shoot
A term used for less skillful tournaments with lots of loose action throughout.
Cripple
As in to cripple the deck. Meaning that you have most or all of the cards that somebody would want to have with the current board. If you have pocket kings, and the other two kings flop, you have crippled the deck.
Crying Call
To complain when making a call. Sometimes a tactic to keep players in the hand.
Cut
To divide the deck into two sections in such a manner as to change the order of the cards.
Cut It Up
To split the pot after two hands are revealed to be of equal value.
Cut the Cards
Putting the bottom cards of a deck on top of the deck.
Cut the Deck
To divide the deck, fairly evenly, into 2 stacks.
Cut The Pot
Taking the house rake or vig
Cut-Card
Another term for the bottom card.
Dark Bet
To bet without looking at your hand.

Darken
To make a bet without looking at one's cards; required in some forms of poker.
Dead Card
A card that is not legally playable.
Dead Collection Blind
A fee posted by the player having the dealer button, used in some games as an alternative method of seat rental.
Dead Hand
A foul hand that cannot be played.
Dead Man's Hand
Two pair - Aces and Eights.

Dead Money
Chips that are taken into the center of the pot because they are not considered part of a particular player’s bet.
Deal
To give each player cards, or put cards on the board. As used in these rules, each deal refers to the entire process from the shuffling and dealing of cards until the pot is awarded to the winner.
Deal Me In
Request to be dealt cards during a temporary absence
Deal Me Out
Notice that a player is absenting himself from a game for at least one hand.
Deal Off
To take all the blinds and the button before changing seats or leaving the table. That is, participate through all the blind positions and the dealer position.
Deal Twice
When there is no more betting, agreeing to have the rest of the cards to come determine only half the pot, removing those cards, and dealing again for the other half of the pot.
Dealer
The man or woman who handles the cards, gives out the pots, and monitors the game.
Dealer's Choice
In home games, a rule that permits the dealer to name which poker game to be played that hand.

Dealer's Position
Being the last to act in a betting round. On the button.
Dealers Button
A flat disk that indicates the player who would be in the dealing position for that hand (if there were not a house dealer). Normally just called "the button".
Deck
A set of playing-cards. In these games, the deck consists of either: 1) 52 cards in seven-card stud, hold’em, and Omaha. 2) 53 cards (including the joker), often used in ace-to-five lowball and draw high.
Declaration
Declaring which share of the pot a player is bidding for in a hi-lo (q.v.) game. Usually done with two coins or chips hidden under the table and then declared - none for the low hand, one for the high hand, both for both the high and low hand.
Deuces
A pair of Twos.
Diamonds
One of the four playing card suits. Formerly representing merchants.
Discard(s)
In a draw game, to throw cards out of your hand to make room for replacements, or the card(s) thrown away; the muck.
Disconnect Protection
A tool to protect players in the event that their internet connection is lost while involved in a pot.

Dog
Shortened form of "Underdog".
Dolly Parton
A straight 5-9 (Nine to five).
Dominated Hands
Hands those are okay to play, but tend to lose against similar non-straight/flush hands. Example: A2 is dominated because against other hands with an Ace, it loses or draws without improvement.
Dominating Hands
Primo hands that are not only good, solid hands but have lots of room for improvement.
Door Card
This is the first exposed card, or "up" card, in a player's hand in Stud games.
Double Belly Buster
A two-way inside straight. ie:, 3-5-6-7-9. Also called a Double Gutshot.
Double Bluff
A bluff that involves in an initial bet, being raised, and reraising.
Double Up
Going all in on a hand during a no-limit game and winning, which essentially doubles your bankroll. Even with a short stack, a player who doubles up 2 or 3 times in a row can get right back into contention in most poker tournaments.
Double-Pop
When the second player re-raises a raise.
Down and Dirty
The final hole card dealt in seven-card stud.
Down Card
Hole cards. Cards that are dealt face down.
Down to the Green
When a player has gone all in.

Doyle Brunson
It's a Holdem hand consisting of a 10-2 (Brunson won the world championship two years in a row on the final hand with these cards).
Draw
1) High draw poker. 2) The point during the playing of a hand at which active players discard the cards they don't want and receive new ones. "You must bet or fold before the draw." 3) The receiving of draw cards. "What was the draw?" is a request by a player to find out how many cards each player drew. 4) A particular hand you are trying to make, as, a flush draw, which is four cards to a flush. In addition to draw games, this usage is often heard in games other than draw games. 5) Specifically an unmade hand, usually heard in hold 'em and seven-card stud. "I raised him all in because I knew he was on a draw." That is, I knew that at the moment, his hand did not beat mine, but that he was trying to make a straight or flush (which, presumably, would win if he did make it). 6) Receive cards. 7) Not stand pat, as opposed to doing so. "You're pat? Then I've got to draw."
Draw Card
The card that one has received on the draw.
Draw Dead
Draw to a hand that cannot win even if made; sometimes followed by to when referring to the other hand. In lowball, if the other guy has a wheel, and you draw one to a 6-4, you're drawing dead, because you can't win, even if you jam up the hand (make it perfect). You are drawing dead to his hand.
Draw Down
In lowball, draw more than one card so as to be drawing to the best possible hand, instead of drawing fewer cards (generally one) to a poorer hand; sometimes followed by to and a or the hand. For example, if you have K-8-6-4-2, you could draw one to the 8, or draw down (that is, draw to a 6) by throwing both the king and the 8. A lowball player might say, "When he stood pat, I figured I better draw down," or, "When he stood pat, I figured I better draw down to the hand."
Draw For Deal
Participate in a top-card draw.
Draw For Seats
A method of determining which players sit where, usually the participants in a small tournament. Each player draws a card from the deck, which is often fanned face down on the table, and the holder of the highest card sits in seat 1, the next highest card to that player's left, and so on; often suits are used to break ties (in the bridge order of spades, hearts, clubs, diamonds).
Draw Game
A game in which or a table at which Draw Poker is played.
Draw Live
Draw to a hand that will win if made; sometimes followed by to when referring to the other hand. If the other guy has a flush, and you draw one to two pair, you're drawing live, because you can win with a full house. You are drawing live to his hand.
Draw Lowball
Form of poker where each player is dealt five cards with the option of discarding one or more and replacing them with new ones and the low hand wins.
Draw Out
To improve your hand so that it beats an opponent who had a better hand than yours prior to your draw.
Draw Poker
Form of poker where each player is dealt five cards down with the option of discarding one or more and replacing them with new ones to attempt to make a better hand.
Draw Snow
(In draw poker) to bluff before and after the draw.
Drawing
Playing a hand to improve.
Drawing Dead
A drawing hand that will lose even if it improves.
Drawing Hand
A hand that needs improvement to win. Usually to a straight or flush.
Driver's Seat
A player in the "Driving Seat" is the one taking the initiative in all the betting
Drop
Fold.
Drop Out
To retire from a hand by not calling a bet or raise (Fold).
Ducks
A pair of Twos.
Eagles
The cards of a fifth suit in a sixty-five-card deck.
Early Bet
A small bet after the first card in stud or the first two cards in draw.
Early Position
Position on a round of betting where the player must act before most of the other players at the table. (It's considered the two positions located to the left of the Blinds. )
Edge
1) An advantageous position. 2) The dealer or sometimes the Age.
Edge Odds
The advantage or disadvantage of a player relative to all other players.
Edge Shot
A bet made from an advantageous position.
Eldest Hand
The first player to the dealer's left.
Elimination
Like Cincinnati, but cards matched with table cards are discarded (Weary Willie).
End Bet
The last bet of an interval.
End Bets
Last-round bets.
End Strippers
Cards tapered along the ends for cheating.
English Poker
Draw played with a blind opening.
English Stud
A stud game with a draw.
Entry Fee
An entry fee is usually payable for all tournaments (unless they are freerolls) these may be as little as a few cents or as large as thousands of dollars.
Equity
Your "rightful" share of a pot. If the pot contains $80, and you have a 50% chance of winning it, you have $40 equity in the pot. This term is somewhat fanciful since you will either win $80 or $0, but it gives you an idea of how much you can "expect" to win.
Ethics or Etiquette
The understandings and courtesies of which violations do not constitute cheating.
Even Money
A wager made in hopes of earning the amount that was wagered.
Expectation
1. A term referring to the amount of you expect to gain on average if you make a certain play. For instance, suppose you put $10 into a $50 pot to draw at a hand that you will make 25% of the time, and it will win every time you make it. Three out of four times, you do not make your draw, and lose $10 each time for a total of $30. The fourth time, you will make your draw, winning $50. Your total gain over those four average hands is $50-$30 = $20, an average of $5 per hand. Thus calling the $10 has a positive expectation of $5. 2. The amount you expect to make at the poker table in a specific time period. Perhaps in 100 hours play, you have won $527. Then your expectation is $5.27/hr. Of course, you won't make that exact amount each hour (and some hours you will lose), but it's one measure of your anticipated earnings.
Exposed Cards
Cards purposely dealt face-up as in stud.
Exposed Pair
An exposed pair, as opposed to a split pair or a hidden pair.

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