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Action - (1) A player's chance to act. If a player appears not to realize it's his turn, the dealer will say "Your action, sir." (2) Bets and raises.
Ante - A small part of a bet contributed by each player to seed the pot at the beginning of a poker hand. Most hold'em games are played without an ante using "blinds" to place the initial amount of money into the pot.
All-In - When a player runs out of chips while betting or calling. In table stakes games, a player may not go into his pocket for more money during a hand. If he runs out, a side pot is created in which he has no interest. However, the player may still win the pot for which he had the chips.
Backdoor - Whenever a player catches both the turn and river card. For example, if a player has A♠-7 ♠ The flop is dealt A♦-6 ♣-4♠. You bet and are called. The turn is the 10♠, which everybody checks, and then the river is the J ♠. You've made a "backdoor" nut flush. See also "runner."
Bad Beat - When your hand - even though it's a huge underdog - beats a heavily favored hand. This term is widely used to imply that the winner of the pot should never have been in the pot at all, and that it was only the purest luck that he managed to receive the one card in the deck that would win him the pot.
Big Blind - The larger of the two blinds typically used in a hold'em game. The big blind is normally a full first round bet.
Blank - A board card that doesn't appear to affect the standings in the hand. If the flop is A♠-J♦-10 ♠, then a turn card of 2♥ would be considered a blank. On the other hand, the 2♠ would not be.
Blind - A forced bet (or partial bet) placed by one or more players before any cards are dealt. Normally, blinds are put in by players immediately to the left of the button.
Board - A Board is actually all the community cards in a hold'em game - the flop, turn, and river cards together. Example: "I didn't see a single heart on the board."
Bottom Pair - A pair with the lowest card on the flop. If you have A♠-6♠, and the flop comes K♦-10♥-6 ♣, you have flopped bottom pair.
Burn - This term refers to when one discards the top card from the deck, face down. This move is done between each betting round, before putting out the next community card(s). Burning is also required as security against any player recognizing or accidentally seeing the next card to be dealt onto the board.
Button - This is a white acrylic disk used to indicate the (nominal) dealer. The Button is also used to refer to the player actually on the button. Example: "The button has just raised."
Buy - (1) This term may mean to "buy the pot." It may also refer to bluffing, with the intention to "buy" the pot without being called. (2) Some refer with this term to "buying the button." It may also mean to bet or raise, hoping to make players between you and the button fold, thus allowing you to act last on subsequent betting rounds.
Call - To call is to put into the pot an amount of money equal to the most recent bet or raise. The term "see" means the same thing.
Calling Station - A weak-passive player who calls a lot, but who doesn't raise or fold much. Ideal opponent.
Cap - To put in the last raise permitted on a betting round. This is typically the third or fourth raise.
Case - The last card of a certain rank in the deck. Example: "The flop came J-8-3; I've got pocket jacks, he's got pocket 8's, and then the case eight falls on the river, and he beats my full house."
Center Pot - The first pot created during a poker hand, as opposed to one or more "side" pots created if one or more players goes all-in. Also "main pot."
Check - (1) To not bet, with the option to call or raise later in the betting round. Equivalent to betting zero dollars. (2) Another word for chip, as in poker chip.
Check Raise - To check and then raise when a player behind you bets. Occasionally you will hear people say this is not fair or ethical poker. Piffle. Almost all casinos permit check-raising, and it is an important poker tactic. It is particularly useful in low-limit hold'em where you need extra strength to narrow the field if you have the best hand.
Cold Call - To call more than one bet in a single action. For instance, suppose the first player to act after the big blind raises. Now any player acting after that must call two bets "cold." This is different from calling a single bet and then calling a subsequent raise.
Come Hand - A drawing hand for a combination that hasn't been reached yet.
Community Cards - Cards that are presented face-up in the middle of the poker table and shared among players in games like Hold'em and Omaha. These are also referred to as "the board".
Complete Hand - A hand that is defined by all five cards - a straight, flush, full house or straight flush.
Connector - A hold'em starting hand in which the two cards are one apart in rank. Examples: KQs, 76.
Counterfeit - To make your hand less valuable because of board cards that duplicate it. Example: you have 87 and the flop comes 9-10-J, so you have a straight.Now an 8 comes on the turn. This has counterfeited your hand and made it almost worthless.
Crack - To beat a hand - typically a big hand. You hear this most often applied to pocket aces:
Cripple - Meaning that you have most or all of the cards that somebody would want to have with the current board. If you have pocket kings, and the other two kings flop, you have crippled the deck.
Dealer - The player in a poker game who actually (or theoretically) is dealing the cards. When a professional dealer (casino or card room) or automated dealer (online) is present - it is necessary to identify the player who would be dealing the cards because the blinds and the betting action are to the left of the dealer. This is done by utilizing a marker called a dealer button which travels around the table in a clockwise manner, moving to the next player after each hand is completed.
Dog - Shortened form of "underdog".
Dominated Hand - A hand that will almost always lose to a better hand that people usually play. For instance, A5 is "dominated" by AJ. With the exception of strange flops (e.g., 5-5-X, A-5-X), it will always lose to AJ.
Draw - To play a hand that is not yet good, but could become so if the right cards come.
Draw Dead - Trying to make a hand that, even if made, will not win the pot.
Equity - Your "rightful" share of a pot. If the pot contains $80, and you have a 50% chance of winning it, you have $40 equity in the pot. This term is somewhat fanciful since you will either win $80 or $0, but it gives you an idea of how much you can "expect" to win.
Expectation - (1) The amount you expect to gain on average if you make a certain play. (2) The amount you expect to make at the poker table in a specific time period. Suppose in 100 hours of play, you win $527. Then your expectation is $5.27/hr. Of course, you won't make that exact amount each hour (and some hours you will lose), but it's one measure of your anticipated earnings.
Extra Blind - A blind put in by a player just entering the game, returning to the game, or otherwise changing his position at the table.
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