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| Ace High | A five card hand that has one Ace. The hand has no pair, flush or straight in it. |
| Aces Full | A full house with 3 aces and any other pair. |
| Aces Up | A hand that has two pairs, one being Aces. |
| All-In | When a player bets all their chips on the hand. |
| American Airlines | A pair of Aces. |
| Ante | Money contributed to the pot before a hand has begun. |
| Bad Beat | When a better hand is beaten by a lucky draw. |
| Belly Buster | An inside straight draw. |
| Bet | To place money into the pot. |
| Bet the pot | When a player bets the amount equal to the pot. |
| Bicycle | A straight that is A-2-3-4-5. |
| 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.) |
| Big Slick | A hand that contains an A-K. |
| 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 Raise | When a player raises without looking at his hand. |
| Bluff | To make other players believe that one has a better hand than he/she might otherwise have by betting or raising when 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. |
| Bottom Pair | When a player uses the lowest card on the flop to make a pair with one of his own cards. |
| 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 (A-K-Q-J-10). |
| Bullets | A pair of Aces. |
| Bump | To bump or raise the pot. |
| 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-In | The minimum amount of money required by a player to sit down in a particular
poker game. |
| Call | When a player chooses to match the previous bet. |
| Call Cold | To call both a bet and raise(s). |
| Cap | To take the last of the maximum amount of raises allowed per round of betting. |
| Cardroom | The room or space in a casino where poker is played. |
| Case Chips | A player's last chips. |
| Cash Out | To leave a game and convert your chips to cash. |
| Check | 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." |
| Check-Raise | When a player first checks and then raises in a betting round after another player had bet. |
| 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". |
| Collusion | When two or more players conspire to cheat in a poker game. |
| Community Cards | Cards that are face-up and used by all players. |
| Cowboys | Two Kings. |
| Dead Man's Hand | Two pair - Aces and Eights (Wild Bill Hickock was shot in the back while playing
this hand). |
| Deuces | A pair of Twos. |
| Door Card | This is the first exposed card, or "up" card, in a player's hand in Stud games. |
| Down Card | Hole cards. Cards that are dealt face down. |
| 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 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 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. |
| Drop | To Fold. |
| Ducks | A pair of Twos. |
| 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.
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| Fifth Street | Also known as the "river" card. In flop games, this represents the fifth community
card on the table and the final round of betting. In Stud games, this is the fifth card
dealt to each player and represents the third round of betting. |
| Five-card Draw | A poker game in which the player is dealt five cards down. They have one draw to
replace them and the best high hand wins the pot. |
| Five-card Stud | A poker game in which each player is dealt five cards, one down and four up, with
betting after 2, 3, 4, & 5 cards. |
| Flat Call | Calling a bet without raising. |
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