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Date Posted: 09:49:47 02/03/05 Thu
Author: partypoker
Subject: Re: Online Poker Terms - Poker Dictionary CONTINUED
In reply to: partypoker 's message, "Re: Online Poker Terms - Poker Dictionary CONTINUED" on 09:47:11 02/03/05 Thu

Quadruplets
Four of a kind. Abbreviation Quads
Quads
Four of a kind.
Qualifier
In High-Low games, it is a requirement the Low hand must meet to win the pot.
Quart
A four-card straight flush.
Quartered
To divide half a pot between two tying hands in split pot games. This is Applicable to Omaha Hi-Lo Poker.
Quint
A straight flush.
Quint Major
A royal straight flush.
Quitting Time
An agreed-upon time to end a poker game (Curfew).
Quorum
The minimum number of players needed to start a poker game.
Rabbit Hunting
Looking through the undealt deck of cards.
Rack
A tray that holds 100 poker chips in five stacks of twenty chips each.
Ragged
A flop (or board) that doesn't appear to help anybody very much. A flop that came down Jd-6h-2c would look ragged.
Rail
The rim of a poker table or a barrier outside a poker area.
Railbird
Someone who hangs around a poker room who watches the games and/or is looking to get into action.
Rainbow
A flop that contains three different suits, thus no flush can be made on the turn. Can also mean a complete five card board that has no more than two of any suit, thus no flush is possible.
Raise
To increase the previous bet.
Raise Blind
1) To raise without looking at one's cards. 2) A forced raise.
Rake
Chips taken from the pot by the cardroom for compensation for hosting the game.
Rank
The value of each card and hand.
Rap
When a player knocks on the table indicating that he/she has checked.
Ratholing
The illegal action of taking money off the table and putting it somewhere else.
Razz
Seven Card Stud where the lowest five cards win the pot.
Re-buy
The amount of money a player pays to add a fixed number of chips to his/her stack in a tournament.
Re-raise
To raise a raise.
Reading
Analysis of a player based on how they play, mannerisms, and tells.
Redeal
A new deal after a misdeal.
Represent
To play as if you hold a certain hand. For instance, if you raised before the flop, and then raised again when the flop came ace high, you would be representing at least an ace with a good kicker.
Reraise
To raise someone’s raise.
Ribbon Clerk
A small time gambler.
Ring Game
A "live" game that is not a tournament.
River
This is the last card given in all games. In Hold'em and Omaha, it is also known as 5th street. In Stud games, it is also known as 7th street.
Rock
A passive, tight player.
Rolled Up
In seven-card stud, being dealt three of a kind in the first three cards.
Rotation
Movement in the direction of the deal... clockwise.
Round of Betting
This is when players have the opportunity to bet, check or raise. Each round of betting ends when the last bet or raise has been called.
Round of Play
The action sequence in which every player deals a poker hand.
Rounders
Guys who hustle for a living. This is also the name of a popular poker movie starring Matt Damon and Ed Norton.
Royal Flush
This is an Ace high straight (A-K-Q-J-10) of the same suit. It is the best possible hand in poker.
Run
1) A straight.
2) Several good hands after one another; a rush (q.v.)



Run a Pot
To win a hand by successfully bluffing throughout a hand, implying more than one bet.
Runner
Typically said "runner-runner" to describe a hand which was made only by catching the correct cards on both the turn and the river - "He made a runner-runner flush to beat my trips". See also "Backdoor".
Running Bad
A losing streak.
Running Good
A winning streak.
Running Pair
When the last two cards on the board happen to be pair.
Rush
A winning streak.
Sandbagging
Holding back and calling despite the fact that you have a very good hand, usually to disguise strength, provoke bluffs, and to check-raise.
Santa Barbara
In hold 'em, A-K as one's first two cards. Derives from a destructive oil spill off the Santa Barbara coast, the name arising from the more well-known name for the hand, big slick.
Satellite
It is a mini-tournament to gain an entry into a larger tournament.
Scare Card
A card which may well turn the best hand into trash. If you have Tc-8c and the flop comes Qd- Jd-9s, you almost assuredly have the best hand. However, a turn card of Td would be very scary because it would almost guarantee that you are now beaten.
Scoop
To win the entire pot.
Scramble
A facedown mixing of the cards.
Seat Position
The position of a player relative to the other players.
Seating List
A waiting list. A player would put his or her name on this list if there were no seats at the table at which they wish to play.
Second Best
The best losing hand.
Second Pair
In flop games, when you pair the second highest card on the board.
See
To call.
Sell
As in "sell a hand". In a spread limit game, this means to bet less than the maximum when you have a very strong hand, hoping players will call whereas they would not have called a maximum bet.
Semi-Bluff
Betting with a mediocre or drawing hand.
Sequence
Cards of consecutive value as in a straight (e.g., four, five, six, seven, eight).

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