Glossary
All in: When all of a player’s money (or chips) on the table is put into pot.
Ante: A token bet required before the start of a hand.
Bet: To voluntarily put money or chips into the pot.
Blind: A forced bet that one or more players must make before any cards are dealt to start the action on the first round of betting.
Bluff: To bet or raise with a hand that is unlikely to be the best hand.
Board: In Texas hold‘em and similar games, the five cards that are turned face up in the center of the table in seven-card stud and variations thereof, the four cards that are dealt face up to each player.
Bring-in: The forced bet made on the first betting round by the play poker dealt the lowest card showing in seven-card stud and the highest card showing in razz.
Button: In Texas holdem poker and similar games, a small disk that signifies the player in last position when a house dealer is used.
Call: To put into the pot an amount of money equal to an opponent’s bet or raise.
Check: To abstain from betting, but to remain in contention for the pot.
Closed poker: Games in which all of the cards games are dealt face down.
Community cards: In hold‘em and similar games, the cards dealt face up in the center of the table that are shared by all active players.
Door card: In seven-card stud, the first exposed card in a player’s hand.
Drawing dead: Drawing to a hand that cannot possibly win.
Fifth street: In Texas hold’em and similar games, the final round of betting and the fifth community card on board; in seven-card stud and its variations, the fifth card dealt to each player and the third betting round (on the third up card).
Flop: In holdem nolimit the first three community cards, which are turned face up simultaneously and start the second round of betting.
Flush: Five cards of the same suit.
Fourth street: In hold’em, the fourth card on board and the third round of betting; in seven-card stud, the fourth card dealt to each player and the second round of betting (on the second up card).
Implied odds: The amount of money you expect to win if you make your hand versus the amount it will cost you to continue playing.
Kicker: A side card.
Live card: In learn stud games, a card that has not yet been seen and is therefore presumed likely to be still in Play Poker.
Loose game: A game with a lot of players in most pots.
Muck: To discard a hand.
Nuts: The best possible hand at any given point.
Open poker: Games where some of the cards are dealt face up.
Over card: In high low poker than the rank of your opponent’s probable pair in hold ‘em, a card higher than any card on the flop.
Pot: The money or chips placed in the center of the table.
Pot odds: The amount of money in the versus the amount of money it will cost you to continue in the hand.
Raise: To bet an additional amount after someone else has bet.
Redraw: A draw to an even better hand when you currently are holding the nuts.
River: In hold’ em, the last round of betting on the fifth-street card; in stud, the last round of betting on the seventh-street card.
Rolled up: In seven-card stud, three of a kind on third street.
Rush: Several winning poker in a short period of time.
Scare card: An up card that looks as though it might have made a strong hand.
Set: Three of a kind.
Seventh street : The final betting round on the last card in seven-card stud.
Sixth street: In seven-card stud, the fourth-round of betting on the sixth card.
Straight: Five cards of mixed suits in sequence.
Suited: Cards of the same suit, used to describe two-card combinations in hold'em or the first three card in seven-card stud.
Third street: In seven-card stud, the first round of betting on the first three cards.
Three flush : In seven-card stud, the first round of betting on the first three cards.
Three flush: In seven-card stud, a starting hand consisting of three suited cards.
Tight game: A game with a small number of players in most pots.
Top pair : In holdem, pairing the highest card on board.
Trips: Three of a kind.
Turn: In hold’ em, the fourth-street card.
