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Listed below are some common poker terms you may come across during your time at the poker table. If there is a term that you think should be added please feel free to send us an e-mail and let us know. Also if you come across a term that you don't know the meaning to send us the term and the context that it was used and we will see if we can find out the definition.
- Aces Full
- A full house with any pair and three aces. This is the highest full house that you can have in poker.
- Aces Up
- A pair of aces accompanied with another pair. The highest two pair you can have in poker. If two players for aces up then the highest second pair in the players hand would win.
- All In
- When a player has put all of his/her poker chips into the pot. "I'm All In". Another player can still raise but the all in player can only win the amount he or she has put in the pot.
i.e. If player one puts in $1,000 into the pot. Player two raises $2,500 and player three calls the $2,500. Player one can only win $3,000. That is $1,000 from each of the other bets. The remainder of the chips in the pot form a side-pot, that only the other two players are eligible to win. - American Airlines
- A pair of aces for a players starting hold cards in Texas Holdem. Also see "Pocket Rockets" or "Bullets".
- Anna Kournikova
- An ace and King, suited or off-suit, for a players starting hold cards in Texas Holdem. Know as the Anna Kournikova because it "Looks good but never wins".
- Bad Beat
- When a player gets his/her money in the pot with the best hand but loses the pot to a lucky hand.
i.e. If you have pocket aces and hit trips on the flop. The turn is a king and river is a queen. Your trips are beaten by a player playing jack/ten. You are a huge favorite on the flop but the "donkey" hits "runner - runner" to win the pot.
Welcome to the "University of Bad Beats" - Big Chick
- An ace and queen, suited or off-suit, for a players starting hold cards in Texas Holdem.
- Big Slick
- An Ace/King combination for a players starting hold cards in Texas Holdem.
- Bring-In
- A bet that is forced to the player with the lowest card showing on the first betting round of seven card stud. In razz the forced bet goes to the player with the highest card.
- Broadway
- An ace high straight. The highest straight possible without hitting some sort of straight flush.
- Bullets
- A pair of aces for a players starting hold cards in Texas Holdem. Also see "Pocket Rockets" or "American Airlines".
- Cappuccino
- To cap the betting or make the final allowable raise on any given betting round in limit poker.
- Continuation Bet
- A follow-up bet made by a player who raised on a previous betting round to represented a strong hand.
- Cowboys
- Pocket Kings. Also see "Magnets".
- Dead Man's Hand
- Two pair, aces and eights. The hand Wild Bill Hickok was holding when he was shot dead in Deadwood, South Dakota.
- Dimes
- A pair of 10's.
- Donkey
- A player that is continuously playing bad poker. Also know as a "donk" or a "fish".
- Door Card
- A player's first face-up card in a stud game.
- Drawing Dead
- When there is no card in the deck that will give you a winning hand.
- Fading the White Line
- To drive from town to town, looking for poker action, as the Texas road gamblers did years ago.
- Felted
- To take all of someone's chips, so that there is nothing left in front of him but felt. This also is a Steve Carter familiarity term.
- Gut
- To take all of another player's money at the poker table. "I gutted him".
- Hilton Sisters
- Pocket queens in Hold'-em. Also, called Ladies.
- Hockey Sticks
- A pair of sevens.
- Hollywood
- To overact while "selling" you hand.
- Hooks
- Hold'em starting hand of a pair of jacks.
- Magnets
- Pocket kings known as "ace magnets," or cowboys, because they seem to attract aces to the flop.
- Montana Banana
- A 9-2 hold'-em hand. From "Bananas will grow in Montana before you win with nine-deuce."
- Motown
- Hold'em staring hand J-5, or two pair, jacks and fives (Names for Detroid group the Jackson Five)
- Paint
- Court cards, also called royalty, picture cards or face cards - jacks, queens and/or kings.
- Pocket Rockets
- A pair of aces for a players starting hold cards in Texas Holdem. Also see Bullets or American Airlines.
- Rounder
- Rounder is a term used for road gamblers many years ago. In the days of the great texas road gamblers the likes of Doyle Brunson.
- Royal Couple
- Hold'em starting hand of King and a Queen either suited or un-suited.
- Side Pot
- After a player has moved "All In" any other players involved in the hand can still bet. All bets after the all-in is covered goes into another pot, called the side pot. Only the players that have put money into the side pot are eligible to win that pot.
- Smooth Call
- To just call with a hand you intend to raise with on a later street.
- Snowmen
- A pair of eights.
- Steel Wheel
- A five-high straight flush.
- Stub
- Cards left in the deck after the last plastic playing card has been dealt. Dealers often "count down the stub" to make sure no cards are missing.
- Suited Connectors
- Two cards of adjacent rank of the same suit, such as the seven and six of clubs. Many players have taken the "suited connector" to the next level. Playing any two suited cards and using the excuess "It was suited" for the reason for playing rags.
- Take a Card off
- To call a bet with the intention of folding if there is a bet on the next street and your hand has not improved.
- Tap City
- Broke. Every poker group has a guy that could fit this description.
- "The Carter"
- Hold-em starting hand of 8 -3 off suit. This is the hand that Steve Carter was holding when knocked off the final table in the WSOP 2005.
- "The Mango"
- Hold'em starting hand of 6-3 off suit. This is the hand that Ray Sadler consistently felts opponents on poker tables across the country.
- Under the Gun
- Player seated to the left of the big blind, first to act before the flop in Hold'em.
- Village People
- Four Queens.
- Walking Sticks
- A pair of sevens