Full A-Z of poker terms and poker lingo, So you'll never look like the fish at the table!
The 'board' is essentially another way to describe the community cards as a collective. It can be used to describe the f...
Alternative name given by players to a Full House.
The Big Blind is the player seated immediately to the left of the Small Blind. A Big Blind must put a compulsory pre-flo...
Bullets is a term for the pocket aces hand. As pocket aces are the best starting hand one can have, they are often refer...
A burn card is the card that is discarded before the flop, turn and river of every hand. It is almost never shown to pla...
A bet in poker is the initial amount of chips/money put at stake by a player during play. Other players can call, raise ...
A buy-in is the amount of money required for a player to enter a tournament or cash game. A small number of online tourn...
A bounty is a status given to a player in a tournament which gives other players incentives to knock them out. Such ince...
A bad beat occurs when a player has a solid hand, but still loses against another player. e.g "Charlie had p...
A Big Blind Special is when a big blind unexpectedly hits the board and wins the hand. A Big Blind Special almost always...
A hand made with both the Turn and the River. For example, a player holding two diamonds in a flop with only one diamond...
Is the money a player has top lay Poker. Usually, players keep their bankroll separated from their living money.
This ter mis used to name a Turn or River card that is very unlikely to have improved a player’s hand given the action...
Is a card we hold that would be an out for our opponent, or that make it unlikely for him to have a certain hand. For ex...
Is a bet made by a player out of position with the intention to prevent a larger bet from another player acting after him.
This name is given to TJQKA straight. Also, it is said that a player holding two cards between a Ten and an Ace has “B...
Is the stage of a Tournament or Sit and Go where the next player to be eliminated will be the last one to receive no pri...
Is the player eliminated just before entering the prized positions. For example, if 20 players cash in a certain event, ...
A Bad Beat Story is a story told, usually ad nauseum, by a player about a time they lost a hand which they were widely e...
Being Blinded Out is when a player loses all of their chips to the blinds. This usually happens in online poker tourname...
A Blank is a term given to a card on the board that does not benefit a player in a hand. e.g "No action on t...
When a player is eliminated from a tournament, it is said that he just “busted”.
Short for 'brick and mortar', detonating real life casinos and venues, as opposed to online casinos....
Refers to doing something twice in a row, without interruptions; usually winning a tournament or a title of some so...
Term from Hold'em and Omaha games played with the hole cards. Refers to having three cards of the consecutive order...
Put a bet out before the cards are dealt out, most often before the flop or turn is seen. Dark bet is usually used ...
Bike or bicycle is a term used in high / low poker variations and sometimes in Hold'em to denote lowest possible st...
Usually a pair of 10s or higher (Jacks, Queens, Kings and Aces).Example: If you can get your big pai...
Different name of Ace - King hand in Hold'em games. (AK)
The term 'Bet Sizing' is most commonly used in a strategic sense to determine what the best size of players bet should b...
A bluff is where a player raises with an inferior hand or no hand at all in an attempt to lie their way into winning a p...
A bankroll is the amount of money a player has aside for the purposes of playing poker. e.g "Johnny has a ba...
This name is given to the bets of the original raiser. For example, after the original raisers bets the Flop and the Tur...
Term from Hold'em and Omaha games played with the hole cards. Refers to having three cards of the same suit on the ...
Also known as an inside straight draw, meaning that player can catch only four cards to complete his straight, inst...
Although not used as often as the big slick term, this expression stands for Ace - Queen hand in Hold'em games (AQ)...
A hand that is not actually found in the standard poker ranking system, but is sometimes used in home games, consis...
Weakest possible pair created by the combination of a hole card and a community card.Example: I raised w...
Forced bet in the Stud games. In high / low variation, the bring-in is the lowest card showing on the table after t...
Different name for a dealer position, coming from the small (usually round) object put in front of the player in de...
Somewhat complicated term showing the difference between your odds in chips and the actual cash value of your stack...
A form of cheating at cards, where a person dealing pulls the cards from the bottom of the deck to create a more fa...
A special form of tournaments, mostly found online. Unlike the usual bounty tournaments, bounty hunters feature a s...
Is the administration of the money a person has to play Poker. Serious player follow a strict bankroll management to pla...
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