Poker Terms
Poker Terms
Aces Full: A full house with three aces and any pair.
Action – The betting in a poker hand.
Ajax – An Ace and Jack
American Airlines – Two Aces
Anna Kournikova – Ace and a King
Back Door – A draw that requires two cards needed for a straight, flush, or full house.
Best of It – the favorite to win.
Blank – A Useless card.
Boat – Full House.
Bottom Pair – Having the lowest pair on the board.
Button – A token (button) that represents the dealer position (the button is also is the last to act).
Check-Raise – To first check a hand, and then to raise if an opponent bets.
Chop – To split the pot.
Cold Call – To call both a bet and a raise.
Community Cards – Cards in the middle that are shared by all the players.
Donkey – aka Donk; A terrible poker player that makes bad calls and loses money.
Drawing Dead – Drawing cards to a hand that can not win, becuase it is already beat.
Dead Man’s Hand – 2 pair; Aces and Eights (The hand Wild Bill Hickock had when shot in the back).
Ducks – Pair of twos.
Expected Value EV) – The average amount you will win when betting in the same situation over a period of time.
Favorite – The best chance to win.
Fish – The same as a Donk or Donkey
Flat Call – To Call a bet without raising.
Gut Shot – A draw to an inside straight.
Hole Cards – The first cards dealt to you that your opponents cannot see.
Implied Odds – Bets that you can reasonably expect to collect in addition to the bets already in the pot if you hit your hand.
Inside Straight – 4 cards that is missing a middle card to complete the straight.
Keep you Honest – The call at the end of a hand to prevent them from bluffing.
Kojak – An ace and a King hand.
Ladies – A hand with 2 queens.
Limp-In – To enter a hand with a call before the flop.
Loose – To play more hands than you should be playing.
Nuts – The best possible hand that cannot be beat.
Outs – Cards that can come to improve your hand.
Pot Odds – The mathematical computation of the odds of your hand improving, the amount of money in the pot, and the size of the bet you must call.
Rake – The amount of money taken from each pot by the card room.
Reraise – To raise after after someone has already raised.
Set – Three of a kind.
Short Stacked – The smallest stack of chips at the table.
Steal – To force an opponent to fold when you don’t have the best hand.
Tell – A players action that gives away the strength or weekness of their hand.
Tight – To play fewer hands than normal, and usually only plays premium hands.
Tilt – When a player is emotionally upset and makes poor calls.
Under the Gun – aka UTG, The first person to act in the hand and is in the earliest position
