Table (Board) – All the community cards in a hold’em game: cards of the flop, turn and river. Example: “there was not a single heart on the table. ”

Carpet (All-in) – Lack of chips when you bet or followed. In a game with stakes on the table, a player can not use the money he has in his pockets during a hand. If he runs out of money, a side pot is created and which he can not claim. However, he can still win the pot in which he bet tokens. Example: “Poor Bob. He had a square against a full house, but it was carpet in the second round. ”

Tell – Rating left by sweat on a player without realizing about the strength of his hand, his next action, etc.. May come from the word “telegraph”.

Time (Time) – Request from a player who needs a little more time to make its decision. It simply says: “A little time, please! “If a player does not request additional time and if there were a lot of action before it is his turn to act, the dealer may decide that the player has folded. This term is also talk of money collected either button or every half hour by the cardroom. This is another way for the organizer of the party to make money (see “levy”).

Tilt – play wildly or recklessly. They say he is a player “on tilt” when he’s not playing the best he can, playing too many hands, trying too many bluffs, raising with bad hands, etc..

Draw (Draw) – Playing a hand that needs to improve to have any chance of winning the pot if the right cards come. Examples: “I am not there yet, I want a draw. “Or” I follow because I have a good draft. ”

Inside Straight Draw (Inside Straight Draw) – Find a map of a specific value to achieve a result. For example, a player holding 9-5 2-7-6 on a table can make a straight with any eight. We talk more often straight draw belly.

Flush draw from both ends (Open-Ended Straight Draw) – Search the two cards whose value you can make a straight. For example, a player holding 9-8 on a board composed of 2-7-6 can get a fit with either a 10 (6-7-8-9-10), or a 5 (5-6-7-8 -9).

Inside straight draw (Gutshot Straight) – Draw you realize in the middle. If you have 9 -8 , The flop comes 7 -5 -2 And that the turn is the 6 Then you’ve achieved a draw inside straight.

Shoot Dead (Dead Draw) – Trying to get a hand, even if touched, will not win the pot. If you try to get a flush draw and your opponent has a full house, you are “drawing dead”. Of course, we do not want to find yourself in this position.

Toke – A small sum of money (typically $ 0.50 or $ 1) that the winner of the pot gives the dealer. Often, gratuities are the largest part of the salary of the dealer.

Top Pair – Pair up with the highest card of the table. If you have A -Q and the flop comes Q -T -6 You have flopped top pair. See also “second pair.”

Top Set – The highest possible trips. Example: you have T -T and the flop comes T -8 -9 . You have flopped top set.

Top Two – Two pair: two cards face down you combine the two highest cards in the table to form two pairs.

Top and Bottom – Two pair: your two hole cards combine with the highest card and the lowest card in the table to form two pairs.

Touch (Hit) – As in the phrase “touch the flop. This means that the flop contains cards that improve your hand. If you have AK and the flop comes K-2-7, you hit the flop.

Turn (Turn) – The fourth community card. It is from the package and placed on the mat face up. It is also called “Fourth Street”.

Trips (Kind) – Three cards of one rank, consisting of two cards of the table with one of your hole cards.

Underdog (dog) – A player or a hand of a mathematical point of view is not favored to win the pot. For example, if you flop four cards to your flush, your odds of hitting your flush on the river are 2 cons 1 (which means you hit your flush one out of three).

Value – A term used in the phrase “make a value bet. This means that in fact you want your opponents to call your bet (as opposed to a bluff). Generally, it is because you have the best hand. Nevertheless, it is also possible that this is a draw you are the favorite in that enough players will follow you, and whose outcome is positive.

Variance – The variance measures the fluctuations of Finance poker players. The variance does not necessarily measure the quality of the game however you will find that most variance, the greater the fluctuation of your finances is great.

Sell (Sell) – Sell, as in the phrase “sell a hand”. This means that you bet less than what you would normally when you build a very strong hand, hoping players will follow you when they do not have a follow up higher.

Semi-Bluff – A concept important treaty for the first time by David Sklansky. It is bet or raise, hoping not to be followed while having multiple outs whether you are being followed. A semi-bluff may be appropriate if a value bet or bluff true is not, since the combination gives you a positive expectation game. Example: you have K -Q and the flop comes T -5 -J . If you bet now is a semi-bluff. You probably do not have the best hand, and you would like to see your opponents fold immediately. However, if you’re tracking, you can always improve your hand to become the best.

Lock (Rock) – A player who plays very tight, and not really appeal to creativity. He raises only if he has the best hands. It is fairly easy to predict a lock: if you raise to the end, you can throw any hand unless you have the best.

Set (Kind) – Three cards of one rank, consisting of your two hole cards and a card table.

Short Stack – The amount of chips that is not very high compared with the other players at the table. If you have $ 10 to you and all the other players at the table have more than $ 100, you’re a short stack.

Smooth Call – Follow. A Smooth call often implies a very strong hand that you play slow play. Example: “I flopped the nut flush, but I just did a smooth call when the guy in front of me bet, I did not want to scare anyone. ”

Sub Play (Slow Play) – Playing a strong hand in order to fool your opponents to continue to invest in the pot.

Under-Pressure (Under The Gun) – The position of a player who is first to speak during a betting round. For example, if you’re sitting to the left of the big blind, you are under pressure before the flop.

Spread limit – A betting structure in which a player can bet any amount within the range expected for each round. In a spread-limit structure of $ 2 – $ 6, a player can bet $ 2 to $ 6 each round.

Straddle – An optional extra blind, usually paid by the player to the left of the big blind, equal to twice the big blind. In fact, there is a raise, which forces any player who wants to play to pay two bets. In addition, the “straddle” acts last before the flop and can re-raise.

String Bet – A bet (more typically a raise) a player does not pay at once all the chips in the pot. Unless he announced orally that he made a recovery, he may be forced to remove chips and follow rather than having been re. This prevents a player put enough chips to call to see what effect it has on other players, then restart eventually.

Structured (Structured) – Term used to describe a particular structure put in poker games. The typical definition of a structured hold’em game is a fixed amount of bets and raises pre-flop and flop, and then double that amount on the turn and river. Example: in a structured hold’em game with $ 2 $ -4, bets and raises are $ 2 pre-flop and flop, bets and raises are $ 4 at the turn and river.

Follow or Go See (Call or See) – Place the pot in an amount of money equivalent to the setting or the more recent revival. The term “See” (as in “I’ll see that bet.”) Is regarded as familiar.

Follow Coldly (Cold Call) – Following more than one bet in a single action. For example, suppose the first player to act after the big blind raise. Any player must follow him after speaking coolly and pay two bets. This is different to follow a simple set, then call a raise made afterwards.

Pairs above (overpair) – A pair in your hole cards is stronger than any card table. If you have QQ and the flop comes J-8-3, you have a pair above.

Pay (Pay Off) – Following a bet when he wagered that represents a hand you can not beat, but do it anyway, the size of the pot to justify it. Example: “He played exactly as if it had color, but I had top set, so I paid. ”

Pocket – The cards in your hand that you’re the only one to see. For example: “He had pocket 6 (a pair of six)” or “I had pocket AK. ”

Pocket Pair – A hold’em starting hand consisting of two cards of same rank, forming a pair. Example: “I had 7 pocket pair during the first hour, who could ask for another? ”

Post (Post) – Put the small or big blind, generally required when you first sit at a table in a card room. It is also possible that you are asked to put a blind if you change your position at a table, if this change of position you away from the blinds. Example: a player leaves his seat at a table and sits so far from being blind. Be asked to pay an extra blind to receive cards. See also “extra blind.”

Central Pot or Pot (Main Center Pot / Pot Hand) – The first pot up in a poker hand, not opposition to one or more side pots, when one or more players will / will carpet.

Divided Pot (Split Pot) – A pot shared by two or more players in that these players have equivalent hands.

Pot Parallel (Side pot) – A side pot that a player can not win because he has more chips. Example: Al bets $ 6, $ 6 follows Beth and Carl follows but has only $ 2. An $ 8 side pot is then formed, Al or Beth can win, so that Carl can not win. However, Carl can still win all the money that is in the main pot or central pot.

Pot Limit (Pot-Limit) – A form of poker in which a player can wager the maximum amount of money that is in the pot when it is his turn to act. As in No Limit is a very different game from limit poker.

Price (Price) – The pot odds based on what you get for hitting a draw or follow. Example: “The pot promised a sufficient price, so I stayed in the game with my straight draw belly. ”

Protect (Protect) – Keep your hand or a chip on your cards. This prevents them from being discovered when someone throws his hand or be accidentally picked up by the dealer. Invest more money in a pot so that the money you’ve already placed, without knowing the outcome is not lost. Example: “He always protect his blinds, no matter if his cards are bad. ”

Rank (Rank) – The value of a card (as opposed to color). Example: “Jack,” “Seven.”

Fast (Fast) – Like the expression “playing fast.” Play a hand aggressively, betting and raising as much as possible. Example: “When you flop a set but a flush draw possible, you have to play fast. ”

Recovery (Raise) – Increase the amount of the current bet.

Represent (represent) – Play as if you had a certain hand. For example, if you raise preflop, then try again when the flop came an ace, you represent at least an ace with a good kicker.

Ring Game – Part of regular poker, as opposed to the tournament. Also known as “live” game since it is money that is wagered in the place of chips.

River (River) – The fifth and final community card face up. It is also called “fifth avenue”. Metaphors using the river are very popular in poker. Example: “He drowned in the River. ”

Runner – Often used in “runner-runner” to describe a hand that was completed only by touching the right cards on the turn and river. Example: “He made a runner-runner in my flying trips. “See also” from the rear. “

Jackpot – Special Award paid to the loser in that he was in possession of a very good hand and lost. In Hold’em, the “loser” is usually the one who holds aces full or better and who gets beaten. In some institutions of cards in southern California, the jackpots can reach up to $ 50 000. Of course, the jackpot is from money collected in part by the organizer.

Play Table (Play the Board) – In a game of Texas Hold’em, if the five board cards are the best hand rather than the combination of one or both of your hole cards to those in the table, said that you play the table. For example, if you’re 2-2 and that the table consists of 4-4-9-9-A (no flush draw possible) then you must “play the roll”: the best possible hand you can get use any of your cards. Note that if you play the table, the best you can get is to split the pot among all remaining players.

Liabilities player (calling station) – A term that denotes a passive player who does not raise or bet very rarely, but follows more often than he should. This is the type of player you’d want at your table.

Live Blind – A forced bet before any cards are dealt. The term “live” simply means that players reserve the right to raise when it is their turn to play.

Hand Full (Complete Hand) – A hand using five cards: a straight, flush, full house or royal flush.

Main Come (Come Hand) – Another way to call a drawing hand (probably from the craps term).

House (House) – The house is the institution providing the poker game. For example: “$ 2 you pay is the button for the home. ”

Maniac (Maniac) – A player who has a strong tendency to bet, raise and bluff out of control. A real “maniac” is usually not a good player, but it simply takes a lot of risks. However, a player who behaves at times like a “maniac” and casts doubt among his opponents is quite dangerous.

Muck – This term refers to the stack of cards in front of the dealer burned and to which are added to the cards that players have folded. Example: “His hand hit the muck and the dealer decided he was lying even if the player expected to win his card. Is also used as a verb, meaning to throw. Example: “He had no outs so he mucked his hand. ”

No Limit (No Limit) – A form of poker in which a player can bet any amount of chips (in the limit of his stack) when it is their turn to play. The best deals at poker is No Limit Super / System by Doyle Brunson.

Non-matched / mismatched (Offsuit) – A Hold’em hand consisting of two cards of different colors.

Nuts – denoting the best possible hand on a table. If the array is composed of K -J -T -4 -2 , Then A -X is nuts. Occasionally, the term is used to describe the best possible hand in a certain category, even if not the nuts. If one refers to the example above, a player with A -Q could say that he was “nuts straight” or flush.

One-Gap – A Hold’em hand consisting of two separate cards of one rank. Examples: J-9, 6-4.

Out – A card that allows your hand to win. Term normally used in the plural. Example: “Any spade will give me a color, so I have 9 outs. ”

Outrun – To beat. Example: “Susie Outrunner my trips when she found his color to the River. ”

Overcall – Follow a bet after one or more other players has / have already received.

Issues Table (Table Stakes) – A rule specific to poker games that a player can not take money out of his pockets during a hand. It may only invest in the current pot amount of money in front of him. If lack of chips during a hand, a side pot is created and for which he is not playing. The rule applies table stakes poker played in casinos. The definition also sometimes includes the rule that a player is not allowed to remove chips from the table during a party. Although the stakes of the table does not necessarily refer to this rule, it is almost universally applied in all public poker games.

Fairness (equity) – The share of the pot to which you are entitled. If the pot contains $ 80, and you have 50% chance of winning, your equity is $ 40 in the pot. This term is somewhat fanciful since you will earn $ 80 or $ 0, but it gives you an idea of what you can expect to win.

Expectation (Expectation) – The amount you expect to earn on average if you play a hand in the same way. For example, suppose you bet $ 10 into a pot of $ 50 to get a draw you will get 25% of the time, and wins for sure when you find your hand. Three out of four, you will not receive your draw, and lose $ 10 each time, for a total of $ 30. The fourth time you hit and win $ 50. Your total gain over four times will be 50 $ -30 $ = $ 20, or an average of $ 5 per hand. So, follow the $ 10 has a positive expectation of $ 5. The term also refers to the amount you hope to get a poker table for a period of time. Assume that 100 hours of play, you win $ 527. So your expectation is $ 5.27 per hour Of course, you do not get exactly that amount every hour (and some hours you will lose) but it allows you to anticipate your winnings.

Exploit (Cripple) – Often used in the phrase “Tapping the package. This means that you have most or all of the cards that a player would have on the table today. If you have a pair of kings, and the other two kings flop come, you run the package.

Extra Blind – A blind paid by a player who has just entered the game, which is back in the game or that changes to the table. See also “blind” and “post”.

Family (jar) (Family Pot) – A hand where all poker players (almost) follow before the flop.

Fake (Foul) – A hand that can be played for any reason. A player with a wrong hand can claim a portion of the pot. Example: “He finished with three cards after the flop, so the dealer declared his hand wrong. ”

Favourite (Favorite) – A poker hand that is statistically favored to win the pot.

Flop – The first three community cards face up.

Free Roll – When a player has a chance to win the entire pot when he is tied with another player. For example, suppose you have A -Q and your opponent has A -Q . The flop is Q -5 -T . You are tied with your opponent at that time, but you are free roll because you can win the entire pot when your opponent can not. If no clover comes, you will share the pot, if a club comes, you will win the entire pot.

Heads-Up (one-to-head) – A pot that will decide between two players only. Example: “We were heads-up on the turn. “

Cap – Place the last allowed during a betting round. Usually it is the third or fourth raise. The California dealers love to use the words “Capitol” or “Cappuccino.”

Square (Quads) – Four cards of one rank.

Map above (overcard) – A card higher than any of the table. For example, if you have AQ and the flop comes J-7-3, you do not have a pair but you have two cards above.

Common Cards (Community Cards) – The cards are placed face up in the middle of the table and are shared by all players in games of Hold’em and Omaha. The community cards are also known as board cards or table.

Scare card (Scare Card) – Any card that falls on the turn or river and can supplement the work of your opponents when you had the best hand so far. If you have T -8 and the flop comes Q -J -9 You are almost certain to hold the best hand. However, if the turn is the T , Then this card is frightening because it almost guarantees that you are now beaten. Closed cards (Hole Cards) – Cards dealt face down to a player. They usually refer to the first two cards a player in a hold’em game and the first four cards of a player in an Omaha game.

Map Free (Free Card) – A turning or river where you do not have to follow up, either because of previous conduct of the hand (or because of your image with your opponents). For example, if you’re on the button and you raise the flop with a flush draw, your opponents will perhaps checker at the turn. If you complete your flush on the turn, you can bet. If you do not hit your flush on the turn, you can also check, and get a free ticket to watch the stream.

Case (Case) – The last card of a particular rank in the pack. Example: “The flop came J-8-3, I had a pair of jacks, he had a pair of 8 and the” case 8 “arrived at the River. He beat my full house. ”

Checker / Go / Word (Check) – Do not bet, keeping the option to call or raise later in the round. Equivalent to not build any token.

Check-raising (Check Raise) – Checker then restart after a player has wagered. From time to time you hear people say that this practice is not fair and does not correspond to the ethics of poker. Nonsense. Almost all casinos allow players to re-checker, and this tactic is important in poker. It is particularly useful in low-limit hold’em where you need extra strength to reduce the number of opponents if you have the best hand.

Board / Sample (Rake) – An amount of money that is collected from each pot by the dealer. The income from the card room of the samples.

Connector (Connector) – A hold’em starting hand in which the two cards are separated by one rank. Example: KQs, 76.

Counterfeit (Counterfeit) – Decrease in value of your hand as the cards are duplicates of the table with yours. Example: you have 87 and the flop comes 9-TJ, which gives you a suite. The turn is an 8. It has infringed your hand and made it virtually worthless.

Pot Odds (Pot Odds) – The amount of money in the pot compared to the amount you must pay to continue playing. For example, suppose there is $ 60 in the pot. Someone bet $ 6, and the pot now contains $ 66. It costs $ 6 to follow, so your odds of 11 against 1. If your probability of having the best hand is at least 1 in 12, you should follow. Pot odds also apply to draws. For example, suppose you have a flush draw and that you lack a card. In this case, your chances of finding your color is 4 cons 1 .. If it costs $ 8 to follow, there should be about $ 32 in the pot (including the most recent development) so that your risk-taking profitable.

Implied Odds (Implied Odds) – Pot odds that do not actually exist but may nevertheless be taken into account in your calculations, to the extent that you hope to win the pot if you find your hand. For example, you may follow the turn and try to get your flush draw even if the pot does not give you quite the score 4 cons 1 (the probability that you reach a color) because you are sure win bet on your opponent if you find your color to the River.

Sunset (Se) (Fold) – Declaring package poker face your chances of winning the current pot. Discard your hand rather than calling or raising.

Crack (Crack) – Beat a hand – typically a very good hand. Often used this term when talking about pocket aces: “This is the third time tonight that my pair of aces is cracking. ”

Two Pairs Shared (Split Two Pair) – A hand in which you have two pairs that are formed by connecting each of your two hole cards to two cards from the table. Example: you have T9, the flop is composed of T-9-5, you have two pairs shared. Compared with two pairs where one pair is on the table. Example: you have T9 and the flop is composed of 9-5-5.

Second Pair (Second Pair) – A pair that is formed with the second highest card of the table. If you have A -T and the flop comes K -T -6 Then you have flopped second pair. See also “top pair”.

Unveiling (Showdown) – End of the hand where all remaining players show their cards to determine the winner, that is to say when the fourth round of betting is complete. If a player places a bet or makes a final last raise and nobody follows it, there is no showdown.

Dominated (hand) (Dominated Hand) – A hand that will lose almost all the time against a better hand that people usually play. For example, a hand K3 is “dominated” by KQ. Apart from some strange flops (eg 3-3-X, K-3-X), it will always lose against KQ.

Dealer (Dealer) – The player who really gives (or theoretically) the cards in a poker game. In the presence of a professional dealer (a dealer in a casino or card room) or a donor automated (online), it is necessary to identify the player who should have given the cards because the blinds and bets beginning after the dealer. It uses a chip called the button to designate the donor, the button moves around the table clockwise and counterclockwise moves to the next player at the end of each hand.

Buy (Buy) – In the phrase “buy the pot”, this means bluffing, hoping to “buy” the pot without being followed. Term used also in the expression “buy button”. Bet or raise, hoping that this will force other players located between the button and you go to bed, which will allow you to act last in future rounds of betting.

Kicker (Kicker) – A second hole card that has not found a pair on the board and will serve to tie the best of both hands equally strong. For example, suppose you have AK and your opponent has AQ. If the flop contains an ace, you both have a pair of aces. As your kicker is a king, you win that hand. The kicker can be very important in Hold’em.

Action – It’s your turn to act. If a player does not seem to realize that it is his turn, the dealer will say “Your action, sir.” Housing and / or reminders to a poker table. “If a third heart arrives on the table and there is plenty of action, you should assume that someone has a color. ”

Ante – A small forced bet placed by each player and involved in the hand, even before the cards are dealt. Most hold’em games do not have antes, they use “blinds” to constitute an initial sum of money in the pot.

Arc-en-Ciel (Rainbow) – Term used to describe a flop. A flop rainbow sky means there are three different colored cards on the flop. Thus, it is impossible to achieve a color. You can also use this term for an array of five cards that do not contain more than two cards of the same color, making it impossible for a flush draw.

Back (By ‘) (Backdoor) – Touch the color using the turn and river. For example, suppose you have A -7 and the flop brings A -6 -4 . You bet and the other players following you. The turn is the T And all players checked. The river is the J . We then say that you touched a color from the rear. See also “runner-runner.

Assorted (Suited) – A hold’em starting hand in which the two cards are of the same color. Example: “I had to play J-3, they were matched. ”

Bad Beat – When a hand that had little chance of winning the pot beats a heavily favored hand. This term is generally used to indicate that the winner of the pot had absolutely nothing to do in his hand and he was given a chance to touch the monster card that allowed him to win the pot. We will not give any examples, you will hear much talk about bad beats in your poker career.

White (Blank) – Qualifies a map table does not affect the players’ hands. If the flop contains A -J -T And if the turn is a map such that 2 , It will be seen as a carte blanche. In contrast, 2 would not.

Blind – A forced bet (or partial implementation) provided by one or more players before any cards are dealt. Traditionally, the blinds are placed by players located immediately to the left of the button. See also “Live blind.”

Blind (Large) – The larger of the two blinds at the beginning of each hand in Texas Hold’em. The big blind is usually the minimum bet of the first round. See also “blind” and “small blind”.

Blind (Small) – The smaller of the two blinds traditionally used in a hold’em game. Normally, the small blind is one-third of two thirds of a first round of betting. See also “big blind” and “Blind.”

Button (Button) – White plastic token which identifies the player who acts as the donor for the hand. Also refers to the player on the “button”. Example: “Oh, the button raised. ”

Bottom Pair – A pair that consists of the lowest card on the flop. If you have A -6 and the flop comes K -T -6 , You have flopped bottom pair.

Kind – Three cards of same rank.

Bricks (Ragged) – A flop (or table) that seems to help anyone. A flop that would consist of J – 6 -2 would be called “bricks.”

Burn (Burn) – Discard the first card of the deck face down. The dealer burns a card before each round of betting before the unveiling of each of the next community cards. For security reasons, this prevents a player has been able to recognize or see the next card to come on board.

In games run (“draw”), particularly those with multiple prints such as 2-7 Triple Draw and Badugi, it is possible to need more cards than it stays in the heel (maps of the package have not yet been used). If the dealer does not have enough of the 52 cards of the original packet to distribute the number of cards required by the active player, the cards in the deck and all cards discarded by previous players (including those laid by Other players in the current turn) are mixed together to form a new heel. Then the game continues using the new heel. Depending on the action, several blends of this kind are possible in a hand.

In games run single (single draw “), the cards discarded by the active player not used the new blend, so it is impossible to get back a card you’ve thrown during the draw. In games with multiple drawings, once the cards have been reshuffled, the software will prevent a player receives another card that was previously discarded.

So if you take the 2 of spades, it is impossible for you to receive the 2 of Spades in a future draw, even if the cards were reshuffled piers to form a new heel.

This approach is specific reshuffle the cards to draw games and is not used in parts of Stud. If there are not enough cards to distribute the last card to all remaining players in a game of Seven-Card Stud, a community card is used: it is turned face up on the table and shared by all players .