Full A-Z of poker terms and poker lingo, So you'll never look like the fish at the table!
A kicker is a card that is used to determine which player has a stronger hand. It becomes important when two or more pla...
Kansas City Lowball is not played that often nor is it played by many people. It is a form of lowball poker that is play...
This term is used when a player makes a call on the river in order to force his opponent to show his hole cards. This is...
This term is used more so in writing than in actual speaking. It refers to that one card that will make the desired hand...
This term is used tournament play and it refers to the hand (from any player) that proves to be the hand that is the tur...
This is a term that refers to any non-playing spectator. Spectators can also be called rail birds at times.
The kicker, in poker terms, is a separate high card that is used to break a tie. For example, in a 5 card draw game two ...
Kick it is slang for raising. Perhaps most famously used by Paul Newman in the movie Cool Hand Luke. Luke dec...
This refers to an oversize blind that is normally twice the amount of the big blind and doubling the limit. There are ti...
This is a button that is used in a lowball game that indicates a player has won two pots in a row and is therefore requi...
This is a pot that has a forced kill on it because the winner of the two previous pots won those as well. It is also use...
This is another name for the Jack. It can also be used to refer to someone who is not too bright.
Kathy Liebert is a well-known professional female poker player. She is the first woman to win a $1,000,000 first place p...
Kim is best known for his 8th place finish at the 2008 WSOP main event. He has earned more $1.2 million. He did this eve...
Kevin Saul is from Illinois and he has a good history of both live and online play. He has won more than $1.5 million.
In the poker movie, Rounders, KGB (played by John Malkovich) is both loved and hated. KGB is the primary adversary again...
Kill Phil is a book that teaches poker beginners how to play pre- and post-flop hands. It was written by Blair Rodman an...
This term refers to a player's stack that may "look" small, but is actually very valuable in worth. It is called a kill ...
King in poker has two popular meanings. The first is that the King is the second highest card in the deck, one step belo...
A knockout tournament is one in which players get prize money credited to their account whenever they "knockout" another...
This is a slang term for any starting hand in Hold'Em that contains a King and a Jack.
Not used often but it means a player's hand has been defeated because his opponent completed a straight or flush on the ...