Poker Expressions
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AAction
Another term for bet
All-in
When a player bets all of his chips
Ammo, ammunition
Another expression for chips
Bluff
Bet or raise with a hand believed to be inferior
Board
The set of the 5 community cards on the table
Bump
Another term for raise
Buy the pot
To bet when no one else is betting so as to force the others to fold in order to win the pot uncontested.
Cheese
A bad hand
Clean out
The card that will turn you hand into the best at the table
coffeehouse
Annoying smalltalk during a game
Community card
Cards dealt face up to the center of the table and shared by all players
Complete hand
A hand that does not need improvement to win
Crying call
A call made reluctantly on the last betting round with desperate hope of catching a bluff
Dirty stack
A stack that has a chip of the wrong denomination mixed in
Donation
A call made by a player who expects to lose
Donkey
An inexperienced player
Exposed card
A card whose face has been revealed to the players
Fast
An aggressive strategy that results in a player betting, raising and reraising in order to intimidate the other players
Float
To call a bet with an inferior hand, with the intention of bluffing later
Freeroll Tournaments
The term is used to describe a tournament with no entry fee
Garbage
A worthless hand
Heater
A player who consistently gets favorable cards
Hit and run
To play for a short time until you make money and leave
Inside straight draw
An inside straight draw is a hand with four of the five cards need for a straight, but missing one in the middle
Jack it up
In other words to raise
Juice
The money collected by the house
Kicker
A kicker is the card in a poker hand with the highest value that does not itself take part in determining the rank of the hand, but that may be used to break ties between hands of the same rank
Letdown
Folding a strong hand
Made hand
An hand that does not need improvement to win
Muck
A player that folds out of the game without revealing his cards
Nut hand
The strongest possible hand in regards to the cards on the board
Opener
The player who bets first
Poker face
A face that does not reveal anything about the cards being held
Pot
The pot refers to the sum of money that players wager during a game or a single hand
Quads
Is a poker hand which contains four cards of one rank, and an unmatched card
Rake
Percentage of pot money that is taken by a casino operating a poker game
River
The last card dealt in a game
Rush
A winning streak
Shark
A professional poker player
Splash the pot
TO the chips in a disorderly fashion in the pot
Starting hand
The initial set of cards dealt to each player
Table stakes
The maximum a poker player can bet or loose during the course of a single hand
Throwing a party
When somebody is playing foolish and loosing all his money, he is throwing a party
Toke
The tip given by the winning player to the dealer
Up the ante
To increase the stake
Vnh
Used in chats of online poker rooms, means very nice hand
Wash
To mix a deck by spreading the cards on the table and mixing them up
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