A
♦ ABC Poker
When a poker player plays very predictable
♦ All-In
When a player bets all of his remaining chips
♦ Advertising
Faking a bluff, disappointment or good cards
♦ Aggressive
Betting and Raising more often then checking or calling
♦ Ante
A set amount posted by all players before the start of a hand
B
♦ Backdoor
To catch both the turn and river card to complete a draw
♦ Bad Beat
When your strong hand is beaten by a weak hand
♦ Bankroll
The amount of money you reserve to play poker with
♦ Betting the pot
When you make a bet that’s the size of the pot
♦ Blinded off
When you don’t get strong hands, your stack will slowly get smaller due to the blinds
♦ Bluffing
When you play your weak hand like a strong hand
♦ Belly Buster
A draw and/or catch to an Inside Straight
♦ Big Blind
The player to the left of the dealer posts a small blind, the player to the left of the small blind places the Big Blind.
♦ Blank
A card that doesn’t affect the hand, also known as brick
♦ Board
The community cards on the table
♦ Boat
A full house, three of a kind plus a pair like, A,A,A,J,J
♦ Bubble
one place before getting in the money in a tournament
♦ Burn card
The top card of the deck that goes into the muck before dealing the flop, turn and river
♦ Button
The spot from where the dealer starts dealing
C
♦ Call
A bet that matches a made bet
♦ Crying call
A call that you make eventhough you think you’re beaten
♦ Calling Station
A player who calls a lot, but doesn’t raise or fold often
♦ Chasing
When you try to to outplay your opponent on the flop by bluffing and hope to make a hand on the turn and river
♦ Check
If no bets have been made, you can check
♦ Check-Raise
If you check to your opponent and he makes a bet, you raise him. Also known as Sandbacking.
♦ Chip-Leader
The person who has the biggest stack
♦ Connectors
Consecutive cards, like 78 or QK
♦ Community Cards
Cards that are dealt to the table so all players can use these cards to complete a five-card hand
♦ Cut-off
The player to the right of the button
D
♦ Downcards
The two cards that are dealt to you, also known as Hole Cards or Pocket Cards
♦ Donkey
A bad player, also know as a fish
E
♦ EV, Expected Value
A term used with odds calculation
F
♦ Facecard
A king, queen, or jack
♦ Family Pot
A hand that all players at the table are playing
♦ Fifth Street
The last community card in a flop game also known as the river
♦ Fish
A bad player, also know as a donkey
♦ Floating
Calling a bet in order to try to steal the pot on the turn or river
♦ Flop
The first three community cards
♦ Fold
When you give up the hand and throw your cards into the muck
♦ Free card
When you can see the turn or river without having to call a bet
♦ Freeze out
A poker tournament with no rebuys. out of chips is out of the game
♦ Flush
When you have five cards of the same suit, like A,T,8,6 4 of diamonds
♦ Four of a kind
When you have four of the same cards, like Q,Q,Q,Q,2 , also known as quads
♦ Fourth street
The fourth community card, also known as the turn
♦ Full house
three of a kind plus a pair like, A,A,A,J,J also known as a boat
G
♦ Grinder
A player that plays a tight, safe pokerstyle. Usually a multi-table player.
♦ Gut-Shot
An inside straight draw
H
♦ Hole cards
The two cards that are dealt to you, also known as Down cards or Pocket Cards
♦ heads up
When there are two players left in the game or hand
♦ High card
The highest card decides who wins when none of the players made a combination
♦ Hit
When you get the card on the community-board that you need
I
♦ Implied Odds
Pot odds that do not exist at the moment, but may be included in your calculations because of bets you expect to win on future betting rounds.
♦ Inside Straight Draw
Four cards that need one more card in the middle to complete a straight. If you catch this card you make an Inside Straight.
J
♦ Jamming
Betting and raising constantly to get as many chips as possible into the pot, also known as Ramming and Jamming
K
♦ Kicker
Your highest unpaired card to go with a pair, two pair and three of a kind that decides the winner in tie situations.
L
♦ Lay Down
Fold
♦ LAGG
A loose aggressive player
♦ Leak
A fundamental shortcoming in your game, a reason to constantly lose money
♦ Limper
A player who enters the pot by calling the Blind
♦ Longhand
When you play poker with more then seven players
♦ Loose
A player that plays (too) many hands
M
♦ Made hand
A hand that’s completed and doesn’t need anymore help from the board
♦ Maniac
A loose, aggressive player
♦ Married
When you keep playing a hand, when you know you’re beat and don’t have the proper odds to stay in the hand
♦ Monster
A very strong hand
♦ Muck
To throw your cards in without showing them
N
♦ Nuts
The best possible hand in a game. A hand that can’t be beaten
♦ Nit
A player who plays very tight and is afraid to gamble
O
♦ O
The symbol for offsuit
♦ Offsuit
The cards don’t have the same symbol, like Hearts and Diamonds
♦ Odds
The chance you have to hit a certain card
♦ Outs
The number of cards left in the deck that can improve your hand
♦ Outside / Open ended Straight
A hand of 4 consecutive cards that needs a high or a low card to complete the straight
♦ Overpair
A pocket pair higher than the community cards on the board
♦ Overcards
Your hole cards are higher then the community cards on the board
P
♦ Pass
Fold
♦ Pocket cards
The two cards that are dealt to you,also know as downcards and pocket cards
♦ Pocket pair
The two cards that are dealt to you are a pair
♦ Poker face
When your face doesn’t show what’s on your mind
♦ Position
The position that you have in the hand, the later the position you’re in , the better
♦ Pot Odds
The calculation you make when you’re deciding if you’re going to call a bet
♦ Post
A forced bet like a blind
♦ Pot
The total of chips in the centre of the table
♦ Pre flop
The first bettinground, before the flop comes
♦ Push
Going All-in
Q
♦ Quads
Four of a kind
R
♦ Ragged
A flop that doesn’t help anybody much
♦ Rainbow
A flop with three different suits
♦ Raise
When you raise the first bet
♦ Rake
A set amount of money removed from each pot by the house
♦ Raise, Re-Raise
A bet that increases the level of the current bet
♦ Rebuy
A tournament with the option to buy in again after losing all your chips
♦ River
The last community card in a flop game also known as fifth street
♦ Rock
A passive, tight player
♦ Royal Flush
The highest possible handcombination, five consecutive cards of the same suit, A,K,Q,J,T of klubs
♦ Rush
A short period of invincibility where you can’t lose any hand you play, also known as on a roll, a streak and in the zone
♦ Runner
A card that you need to complete your hand
S
♦ Satellite
A tournament that rewards a seat in a subsequent tournament
♦ Set
Three of a kind, also known as trips
♦ Semi Bluff
Betting on your hand while your hand isn’t completed yet
♦ Shark
A good , strong player who consistently wins
♦ Short handed
When you play poker with less then seven players
♦ Showdown
When the betting rounds are finished and the cards are shown to establish the winner
♦ Slow Play
To play a strong hand weak to try to make more money
♦ Small Blind
A forced bet made by the player to the dealers left
♦ Smooth call
Calling a bet or raise with a very strong hand to conceal your handstrength
♦ Straight
Five consecutive cards of any suit
♦ Straight Flush
Five consecutive cards of the same suit
♦ Sucker Straight
Five consecutive cards of any suit on the low side of the community cards on the board
♦ Suit
The cardsymbols, Diamonds, Spades, Klubs and Hearts
T
♦ T
Short for ten
♦ TAGG
A tight-agressive player, tight with the handselection but aggressive in playing them
♦ Tell
Certain behavior of a player from which you can tell if he has a strong or weak hand
♦ Texas Dolly
The nickname of pokerlegend Doyle Brunson, he won the WSOP twice with hole cards T and 2
♦ Tilt
Playing carelessly with bad decisions after a run of losing money, bad luck or a bad beat
♦ Trips
Three of a kind, also known as a set
♦ Tricky play
Playing your hand onorthodox to confuse your opponents, also known as deceptive play
♦ Two Gap
A connector with two missing cards, like K and Ten
♦ Turn
The fourth community card, also known as fourth street
U
♦ Underpair
A pocket pair lower than the community cards on the board
♦ Under the Gun
The first player to act in a hand, the player to the left of the big blind
W
♦ Wheel
A straight with Ace,2,3,4,5