Poker Terms and Definitions

Full A-Z of poker terms and poker lingo, So you'll never look like the fish at the table!

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    Pocket pair

    Also known more simply as 'Pockets', a Pocket Pair is a starting hand with 2 of the same card. These hands are strong pr...

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    Pot

    A pot is the total amount of chips/money that is up for grabs during a hand. It consists of both blinds and all bets tha...

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    Poker face

    A Poker Face is a straight-as-possible face made by a player so as not to give away any potential information about his ...

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    Phil Hellmuth

    Phil Hellmuth is a poker player known for his strong personality on the poker table. At 24-years-old, he was the younges...

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    Push

    Is one of the names given to the action of going all in.

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    Pot Limit Omaha

    It is a Poker game in which players are dealt 4 cards and the betting is the same than in Pot Limit Hold’Em (bets are ...

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    Pot committed

    A player is Pot Committed when a huge portion of his stack is on the pot, where he has virtually no possibility of foldi...

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    Position

    In poker, position is where on the table each player is with regards to the dealer/button. Important positions in poker ...

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    Pre-flop

    Pre-flop is the period of a hand that takes place before the first three cards of the board (the flop) are laid out. Thi...

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    Paint cards

    Picture cards, e.g. Jacks, Queens and Kings. Also called just Paint sometimes.

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    Pat

    In draw games, player pats (stays pat) when he/she decides not to draw any cards for that round.

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    Peel

    Pay the bet to see the next card (to peel one).

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    Picture cards

    Jacks, Queens and Kings

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    Pot limit

    Pot limit poker variations dictate the maximum bet at any street according to the size of the pot, unlike no limit where...

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    Pot odds

    Ratio between the money already in the pot and the amount of money you have to pay in order to stay in the pot. If ...

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    Probe bet

    A bet made with the intention of trying to gather the information about where we are in a hand based on the opponent's r...

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    Play the board

    When a player cannot use his hole cards to make a better hand than what's dealt on the table, he is 'playing the bo...