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• ABC: A term used to describe the first three cards in Razz and High-Low Split, when they are an Ace, Deuce and a Trey.
• Ace-to-Five Lowball: See California Lowball.
• Active Player: A player still involved in the pot.
• Advertise: To bluff with the intention of having the bluff seen by the other players in order to get them to call a future bet that's not a bluff.
• Agent: Confederate (in a cheating scheme). Also see Mechanic.
• All-In (or "Go All In"): To bet all the money you have on the table.
• Anything Opens: A Draw Poker game where specific Openers are not required. Therefore, a player can open the pot with any hand he wants. Such a game is almost always Pass Out.
• Automatic Bluff: A bluff, usually in Lowball, that's made without really thinking about it because of a particular situation. Depending on the circumstances this kind of bluff will almost always be made regardless of a player's hand value.
• Baby: A term used (especially in Razz and High-Low Split) to describe a small card, that is, one that has a value of Five or less.
• Back Door: When a player makes a hand he wasn't originally drawing at.
• Back-To-Back: See Wired.
• Backer: Generally a rich amateur who supplies a professional Gambler with a playing bankroll. However, another professional can also (and often does) Back a professional who is temporarily "Down on his Luck" - this is, out of money.
• Backraise: See Play-Back
• Bad Beat: When you get a big hand cracked (beaten) by someone who was a big dog against you and made his longshot draw ... you're said to have had a bad beat.
• BR: Bankroll.
• Beat The Board: Having a hand that can beat any other hand that's in sight.
• Belly-Buster Straight: Used interchangeably with "inside" Straight.
• Bet Into: To take the initiative in the betting action with the knowledge that your opponent has a potentially strong hand.
• Betting The Pot: To bet the total amount of money in the pot in a Pot Limit (or No-Limit) game.
• Bicycle: The lowest possible hand in Lowball. In Ace-to-Five, A-2-3-4-5 is called a bicycle. In Deuce-to-Seven, 2-3-4-5-7 is called a bicycle.
• Big Blind: The second (or possible third) and largest Blind bet in a game that has multiple blinds.
• Big Dog: A big underdog to win the pot. Also see Dog.
• Big Full: The highest possible Full House in Hold'em.
• Big Hand: 1. A hand with a relatively high value such as a Full House2. A hand with a big draw, meaning that it has excellent possibilities of winning the pot. For example, flopping a Straight Flush draw in Hold'em.
• Big One: $1,000
• Bike: See Bicycle.
• Black Chip: A Casino chip with a value of $100.
• Blank: A term often used in Hold'em to describe a card that came on Fourth Street or Fifth Street and is not of any value to a player's hand.
• Blind: The bet that opens the pot that a player puts in before he receives his cards.
• Board: The cards that are face-up in a Poker game. For example, the up-cards in Seven-Stud are referred to as a players Board, and the community cards in Hold'em are also called the Board.
• Bobtail: See Open-End Straight
• Bottom Dealer: To draw a card instead of playing Pat. This term is often used in Lowball when, for example, a player who intended to play a "Nine" pat, throws away the Nine to draw one card to try to improve his hand. What he did was break the Nine.
• Bring-It-In-For: The first optional bet in any Poker game.
• Broken Fall: A Flop where a Straight cannot be made on the next card. For example, Q-7-2.
• Bull: Another name for an Ace.
• Bull The Game: A very aggressive player us one that would be bulling the game, that is, creating a lot of action by his continuous betting and raisin.
• Bullet: An Ace.
• Bump: A very amateurish term used instead of the word "raise".
• Burn And Turn: 1. To burn (or bury) the top card and give the active players their card(s).2. Usually said by the last player to act on his hand, indicating he also checks.
• Bust Out: 1. Miss your hand completely.2. Lose all your money.
• Button: 1. When there is a house dealer, a Button is put in front of a player to show that he is the theoretical dealer. The Button is passed to each player in clockwise order.2. Second or Third pair.
• Buy-In: The minimum amount of money necessary to secure a seat in a particular game.
• By Me: A common, though amateurish, expression that mean the player checks or passes or drops out of the pot.
• Califonia (Ace-to-Five) Lowball: A form of Lowball in which the best possible hand is an A-2-3-4-5. In this form of Lowball, which is often played with the Joker (which can be used as any value), the Ace is considered a low card and Straights and Flushes do not count against you.
• Call: To put money in the pot that's exactly equal to the previous bet or raise.
• Calling Station: A Sucker who's next-to-impossible to bluff and who'll call almost any bet that you make is said to be a calling station.
• Case Card: The last card of a particular rank. For example, if you catch an Ace after the other three Aces are in the discards, then you have caught the Case Ace.
• Catch Perfect: A situation in Hold'em (or another form of Poker) where there's only one (or two) card(s) in the deck that'll win the pot. Since no other card(s) will help you, you must Catch Perfect.
• Catch-Up: When you must improve your hand so that it'll be approximately equal to your opponent's.
• Change Gears: Adjusting your style of play from loose to tight or vice versa.
• Chase: Trying to beat a hand you know is better that yours.
• Check Blind (or Check Dark): To check your hand without looking at it. (Many players claim to Check Blind when, in fact, they have looked at their hand.)
• Check-Raise: To check and then raise when the auction gets back to you. (To do this, of course, a bet must be made after you check.)
• Chip (or "Check"): A plastic token having various denominations used in place of cash money.
• Cinch Hand: See Nuts.
• Closed Poker: Poker as played when all the cards are concealed, as in Draw Poker.
• Coffee-Housing: An attempt, by words or actions, to confuse, mislead or misdirect another player or players in the pot with you.
• Cold Call (or "Call Cold"): When a player who has no money invested in the pot besides the ante calls a raise and a re-raise.
• "Cold Deck": A deck that has been previously set up (that is, the cards have been previously arranges) by an individual with the intention of cheating.
• Come Through A Player: In a three (or more) handed pot when the first player to act bets, he is coming through the player(s) in the next seat(s).
• Commission: See Vigorish.
• Complete Bluff: A bluff made with a completely worthless hand, as opposed to a semi-bluff that's made with a hand that has slight potential.
• Complete Hand: A hand such as a Straight, a Flush or a Full House. Also see Pat Hand.
• Concealed Pair: A Pair where both cards are face-down.
• Confederate: See Agent.
• Country Straight: An open-ended Straight to draw to. For example, 9-10-J-Q would be a Country Straight.
• Courtesy Bet: A bet (usually a bluff) when you're fairly sure your opponent is going to call or raise.
• Cowboy (K-Boy): A word sometimes used to describe a King.
• Crack The Nut: When a Professional Gambler Meets his minimum living expenses he is said to have Cracked the Nut. See Nut.
• Crippled The Deck: A deck that has almost nothing left in it that can help your opponent's (or your) hand. For example, if you had a Pair of Aces in Hold'em and the other two Aced flopped ... you would have Crippled Deck.
• Crying Call: To complain while making a call.
• Cut: 1. To separate the deck into portions (usually in half) after it has been shuffled.2. See Rake as in "to cut the pot".
• Cutting Out: When two people have formed a partnership and one player is going to do the playing while the other player is on the sidelines, and at some point one of these two people decides to terminate the partnership, that person is said to be cutting out.
• Dead Card: The opposite of Live Card.
• Dead Hand: A hand that's not playable-for example, one that has too many or too few cards.
• Dead In The Pot: When there is no way for you to win, you're said to be dead in the pot.
• Dealer's Choice: Poker as usually played in a Home games where the deal passes from player to player and the player who has the deal makes the decision as to what form of Poker will be played.
• Defensive Bet: A bet that's sometimes made to limit your potential loss in a particular pot. For example, a player wants to see his opponent's hand, but he feels that if he checks, his opponents would bet too large an amount for him to call and he won't be able to see his opponent's hand which he may be able to beat. Therefore, rather than having to call a large bet, he makes a defensive small bet.
• Deuce: Two. A two-spot.
• Deuce-to-Seven Lowball: A form of Lowball played primarily in the South and Southwestern part of the United States in which the best hand is a 2-3-4-5-7. That hand would be the nuts. In this form of Lowball, the Ace can only be considered a high card and Straights and Flushes do count against you. Also called "Kansas City" Lowball.
• Dog: Abbreviation for (and more commonly used among Gamblers than) Underdog. The opposite of Favorite.
• Dog-It: To not merely lay-down your hand, but to lay-down (get bluffed) when you have the best hand.
• Dollar (or $1): The name High Rollers have given to $100.
• Door-Card: 1. The card (almost always a Baby) that a player will sometimes intentionally expose (or simply flash) in a Draw (closed) Poker game such as Lowball. Also see Window Card.2. The first up0card in a Stud game.
• Double Belly Buster: A two-way inside Straight.
• Double-Pop: When you immediately raise a raiser you've double-popped it. That is, re-raising so the next player to act must call two bets.
• Double-Through: To double the amount of chips you have on the table by winning a pot from another player. Similarly, "Triple-Through" would be to triple your chips in winning a pot from two other players. (This is a term that is used more commonly in No-Limit play.)
• Down-Card(s): The card(s) dealt face-down in a Stud Poker game.
• Down The River: 1. The last card received face-down in Seven-Card Stud or Razz.2. Another name for Seven-Card Stud.
• Down To The Green: Means that you've got all your chips and money in the pot and you're Down to the Green felt table-top.
• Drawing Dead: Drawing to a hand that it would be impossible to win with, regardless of the card or cards drawn. Also known as dead in the pot.
• Draw-Out: To improve your hand and beat an opponent who ad a better hand prior to the draw-out.
• Driver's Seat: The advantage a particular player has because it appears as though he has the best hand at the time. That player is said to be in the Driver's Seat.
• Drop: See Lay-Down.
• Drop-In: A stranger in a game played among a regular group of players is called a drop-in.
• Duck: See Lay-Down.
• Duplicates: In Lowball games two cards of the same rank. For example, 8-7-4-4-2, the 2-Fours are Duplicates.
• Early, Middle And Late Position: The early position in an eight-handed game are the first three players to act on their hand, the middle positions are the next three and the late positions are the last two.
• Exposed Pair: An open Pair that is in-sight.
• Fall: See Flop.
• False Cut: A Cut that appears to be real but actually leaves the deck in it's original arrangement.
• False Openers: A hand that does not have the proper opening requirements.
• False Shuffle: A shuffle that appears to be a real one but, in fact, does not really get the cards shuffled at all when it's done by a skillful card manipulator.
• Family Pot: A pot in which most of the players at the table are involved in.
• Fast Game: See Pace.
• Favorite: The player with the highest probability of winning the hand (or winning, period). The opposite of Dog.
• Fifth Street: 1. In Stud Poker, the fifth card dealt to each player.2. In Hold'em, the last community card that is dealt.
• Fill: To draw a card that will make a complete hand. For example, to Fill a Straight or a Flush or to improve Two-Pair to a Full House.
• Flat Call: Calling a previous bet without raising.
• Flat Limit: A limit that remains constant on each round of betting. (This is opposed to a limit that is increased during the latter rounds of betting.)
• Floorman: A Supervisor in a Casino or in a Poker Room.
• Flop: A Hold'em term describing the first three community cards that are turned.
• Flopping A Set: In Hold'em, when out of three community cards (or Flop) and your two hole cards, three of the cards are of the same rank.
• Flush: Five cards of the same suit in no special order, such as an A-7-3-10-2 - All Clubs. This would be an Ace-High Flush which would be higher than any other Flush in any other suit whose highest cared is lower than an Ace, except for a Straight-Flush. If, the highest card in the Flushes of two opponents is the same, the hand is then counted down to the next highest car to see which Flush is higher. This continues in case there is still a tie until it's counted down to the final card of the hand to determine the higher Flush.
• Fold: See Lay-Down
• Force (or "The Force"): See Blind.
• Foul Hand: See Dead Hand
• Four-Flush: To have four cards of a suit with cards yet to come.
• Four-Of-A-Kind: Four cards of the same rank with a side card, such as four Jacks and a Seven.
• Fourth Street: 1. In Stud Poker, the fourth card dealt to each player.2. In Hold'em, the fourth community card dealt. The card after the Flop.
• Free-Card: A card that's received by each active player without any money having been put into the pot because all the active players check on that round.
• Free-Ride: See Free-Card
• Freroll: 1. In High-Low Split where one player has half of the pot cinched and is competing for the other half.2. In Hold'em where two players have the same hand except one of the two has suited cards with one (or two) of his suit on the Board. The suited hand would have freeroll.
• Freeze-Out: A game such as the "Word Series of Poker" that's played down to one winner. An additional requirement of a Freeze-Out game is that no player can add more money to his original Buy-In. So, when a player loses all his money, hoe's out of the game and cannot get back in. Such a game requires a different playing strategy that the one you'd use in a normal game where you can buy-in as often as you want.
• Front Seat: The first player to act on his hand.
• Full Boat: See Full House.
• Full House: Three cards of the same rank (Trips) and one Pair, such as 3-Fives and 2-Sevens.
• Gambler: An unusual way this word is often used to describe the class (that is, the quality) of a Poker player, When the word is used this way it describes the highest class of a player - which actually means that the player is not really a Gambler at all, but a highly skilled player. Also see Rounder, Hustler and Minnow.
• Gar Hole: An unusual term ti describe the situation where chips in the game are "locked up", that is, they're in the stack of a tight, tough player and will be difficult to get back into the game.
• Gardena Miracle: 1. A very lucky draw.2. Something that defies the laws of probability.
• Gardena Razz: A form of Draw Lowball played in the Gardena, California Poker Clubs in which a Button (placed in front of a particular player) is used to identify the winner of the previous pot. That player is the last person to act before the draw in the current pot (even though he may not be the last player to receive cards).
• Geese: See Sucker.
• Getting A Hand Cracked: The situation that occurs when you have a Big Hand beaten when an opponent make a big draw-out.
• Getting An Extra Bet: In Limit Poker only, the art of extracting more money from your opponent by check-raising him.
• Give A Card: To let your opponent get another card without betting him.
• Go To The Center: See Move-In.
• Go Uphill: See Chase.
• Gut-Shot: See Belly-Buster.
• Head-Up (or "Head-To-Head"): A Poker game involving only two players.
• Help: To improve one's hand.
• High Roller: A Gambler who plays for big sums of money.
• Hit: As in "the Ace of Spades hit" (came on the Board) on Fourth Street.
• Hit It: To raise.
• Hit The Deck: Draw a card or cards.
• Hold-Out: To conceal card or cards for the purpose of bringing them into the game for future use. This is a somewhat common form of cheating.
• Hook: A words sometimes used to describe a Jack.
• Hot And Cold: In any form of Poker, playing one hand against the other (with no intermediate betting) until all the cards are out. It's simply a showdown and is often done among gambler when they disagree as to which of the two hands is the favorite ... and by how much. The dispute is resolved by betting - even or with odds. The two hands are then played Hot and Cold for a pre-determined number of times - or until one of the gamblers quits because he's lost as much as he cares to lose. At that point, he's at least temporarily convinves he had the wrong side of the proposition.
• Hustler: See Rounder.
• Ignorant End Of A Straight: The lowest possible Straight. For example, when you have a 7-6 in the pocket in Hold'em and the Flop comes 8-9-10, you flopped the ignorant (low-end) of the Straight.
• In The Lead: A player who's aggressive and one who does better the first betting on each round is the player said to be in the lead.
• In The Middle: A player in a position between the original bettor on his right and a potential raiser on his left. This is the worst possible position that a player can be in during the play of a hand.
• In The Pocket: Hole cards.
• Insurance: A side bet (fairly common in No-Limit Hold'em) that's usually made between two players involved in the pot or between one of the players involved and an "Insurance Man" who may (or may not be) an active player. In fact, the Insurance Man is often a spectator (Professional gambler) who "Books" the bet. Also see Taking Insurance.
• Jacks-And-Back: A form of Jacks-or-better Draw Poker that will revert to Lowball if no player can open the pot for High.
• Jam: A jam pot is one in which several players are raising and re-raising.
• Juice: 1. Referring to favorable pot odds.2. A bookmaker or Insurance Man's vigorish.

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1. Doyle Brunson (Author)
2. Allan Goldberg
3. Doyle Brunson

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