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DICTIONARY -1
Hole: Those cards that are face down.
Inside straight : a straight that can be made only when a card of one particular rank is dealt. Example: You hold four, five, seven, and eight. Only a six will complete your hand.
Kickers: Your side cards outside of the hand you currently hold. Example: You hold a pair of aces and a queen. The queen is your kicker.
Late position: Being one of the last players to act in a betting round. In a full game of eight players, this is the seventh or eighth spot.
Limit : The amount of money that can be bet on a given round. The limit increases in structured limit games when action gets to the fifth street; it’s always the same in a spread limit game.
Limp in: Getting to the next round as cheaply as possible by just calling as opposed to raising.
Loose: Playing more hands than are justified by the odds.
Loose game: a game in which most of the players stay in to see hands rather than folding. Loose games tend to have higher pots.
Middle position: Being in the middle of the betting action. With eight players, this includes the fourth, fifth and sixth spots.
Muck: Folding a hand.
Odds: The mathematical probability of achieving a result.
Open-ended straight : a straight than can be made with two cards. Example: You hold four, five, six, and seven. A three or an eight will complete your straight.
Open pair: a pair on the board visible for everyone to see.
Outs: Card that will improve the quality of your hand. Example: You have a four-flushes, and there are four dead cards. You have five ‘outs’ for your flush.
Pass: Another term for checking.
Pocket : Another way of referring to hole cards.
Pot : The total amount of money wagered in a hand, placed in the center of the table.
Pot odds: Odds calculated by figuring a ratio of the amount of money that is in the pot to the bet you need to call to continue with a hand.
Protecting a hand: Betting aggressively to force other players out who could draw to a bigger hand than what you hold.
Quads: four of a kind.
Rags: Term for lousy cards held by a player.
Raise: Adding money to a bet made by another player.
Rake: The amount of money taken out of each pot by the house.
Re-raise: Raising after another opponent has raised.
River: The last card (the seventh) that is dealt face down.
Rolled-up: Three of a kind on the first three cards.
Running cards: Cards that come back-to-back. Example: having a three-flush on the fifth street and then catching two of the same suit on the sixth street and seventh streets to complete your flush.
Sandbag: Playing slowly with a monster hand in an attempt to keep other players in.
Seven card: A card dealt to another player that could indicate a powerful hand being made.
Semi-bluff: Betting with a hand that is not the best but has a chance of improving to the best.
Seventh street : The last card. It is dealt face down.
Set : Another term for three-of-a-kind.
Short-stacked: a second pot created when a player goes ‘all-in’. The player going all in has no stake in the side pot.
Sixth street : The sixth card dealt in a hand.
Slowplay: Another term for sandbagging, playing a hand slowly to keep other opponents in to pay you off when you hold a powerful hand.
Stealing the antes: Betting heavily on the third street to force all of the other players out so you will win the antes.
Straight : Five cards of different suits in sequence.
Straight flush: Five cards of the same suit in a sequence.
table stakes: Rule in most games that a player cannot take out extra money from his bill fold during the course of a hand. This is why a player low on chips must ‘all-in’ if he does not have enough chips to call a bet or meet the structure requirement.
Tell: Body language by a player that gives clues to what he is holding.
Tip/Toke: a small amount of money given from the pot winner to the dealer.
Trips: Another term for three-of-a-kind.
Underdog: A hand for which the odds are against its winning.
Under the gun: On the third street, it is the poker player with the low card who is the first to act. Later on, it is the player to the immediate left of the player who bets.
Wired pair: A hidden pair in the hole.