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Aces Up: 2 pairs, aces and any other kind of poker sequence

Action: Raise, bet, fold, check or call or any action concerning poker and your doing something with your hand like revealing your cards at the end of a session.

All Blue: flush of spades or clubs

All-IN: If all your money is in the pot then you are considered to be all-in

All Pink: flush of either hearts or diamonds

Ante: Set amount that all players have to place in the pot before beginning a hand

Back Raise: Re-raising another's' raise

Bad Beat: If you are beaten by a very low hand

Bet: Placing a wager into the pot at any one of the betting rounds in poker

Blank: A card that has no value for your specific hand

Blind: A bet that you must make before the cards are dealt

Bluff: To raise or to bet even though you know you can't win.

Board card or Community Card: (relevant to Hold'em or Omaha Poker) a common card placed in the center of the table that all players need to use

Buy-in: A minimum sum needed to enter a game of poker

California Lowball: Ace to 5 lowball with a joker.

Capped: (relevant to limited-round poker) happens when you reach the maximum number of raises

Check: Forfeiting your right to bet first

Check-raise: Forfeiting your right to bet, but raising the bet if another player places a bet

Cold Call: Calling bets before any other poker player in each round

Collection: A poker game's fee

Collection Drop: A poker game's fee for each and every hand

Color Change: To ask to swap the chips (change their denomination)

Common Card: When no cards remain in a poker game, an open card is dealt to all players and they all use it.

Complete the Bet: Raising a forced bet or an all-in bet in limit poker.

Chase: To pass without placing a wager or to play with a hand that is weaker than (at least) one player

Cut: Dividing the deck into two parts

Cut-Card: Another name for the last card (the bottom one)

Dead hand: A hand of poker that cannot be played

Dead Money: Tokens place in the center because they aren't part of a poker player's wager

Deal: Handing out cards or a card to the players sitting at the poker table.

Dealer Button: A disk showing the player who is in the dealing position. Also named as the 'button'.

Deck: Set of 52 or 53 cards depending on the game. Omaha, Hold'em and 7-card stud: 52 cards. In in draw high or ace to five lowball: 53 cards (including joker).

Discard: Dumping cards in poker to take others instead

Down cards: Cards dealt face-down

Draw: replacing cards in your hand

Drawing Dead: Replacing cards even though someone else has a hand that will beat you

Face card: Jack, queen or king

Flop: The initial 3 cards your are handed out at poker

Fixed Limit: (relevant to limit poker) a structure where there's a set limit to bet by

Flashed cards: Partially exposed cards

Flush: (relevant to poker) 5 cards of the same fold. Also termed as forfeiting playing in a specific poker session

Forced Bet: A bet that you must place to begin the action in poker

Free roll: Chances of risk-free winning

Full house: A poker hand made up of a pair and a triple (three of a kind)

Kill Button: button indicating the player to kill the pot if he has won two straight pots

Hand: Either all your cards or a round of poker dealing or the five cards that determine rank

Heads-Up-Play: A game in which only two players are active and are betting one against each other

Insurance: Betting that the opponent will win for a fixed amount

Joker: In ace-to-5 poker: the lowest card that has no rank In high draw poker: a partially wild card used for flushes, aces and straights

Kansas City lowball (deuce-to-7): Type of low-draw poker where the highest hand is 7-5-4-3-2. Flushes and straights are weaker.

Kicker: In poker the strongest card that is not a part of any sequence

Kill (Kill Blind): Generally a blind that reaches double the size of a big blind. Occasionally, it increases the blind and limits it to 50%.

Kill Pot: Pot containing a forced kill by a two-time straight pot winner.

Late Position: If you act after most of the players in a round of poker

Leg Up: Winning the previous pot, if you win again you will have to kill the pot

Live Blind: Blind bet that allows a poker player to raise if none before has done so

Loose: If you play more hands than is considered normal

Loose game: Poker where each round includes a large percent of the players

Lowball: Poker where the lowest hand wins

Low Card: (relevant to 7-card stud) the lowest upcard needed in order to be eligible to bet

Middle Pair: Pairing the second highest card

Misdeal: if there occurs a fault in the dealing of the cards and they need to be reshuffled to start playing poker again

Missed Blind: When your turn comes and you don't place a bet that you were required to

Muck: Discarding a hand or the pile of cards that all poker players exchanged.

No-Limit: When you can place unlimited amounts of tokens on any bet

Nuts: The strongest possible hand

Opener: The poker player who placed the 1st non-mandatory wager

Opener Button: Button indicating the particular player who opened a specific pot in a game of draw

Openers: (relevant to jacks-or-better draw) cards held by the player who opens the pot that show the hand qualifies to be opened. (For instance if you bet first and have a pair of kings; the kings are called your openers.)

Option: If you have a blind, you are given a choice to raise

Outs: The cards that will make you win

Pass:

1. not calling a bet, you will have to fold
2. refusing to place a bet

Passive: If instead of raising and betting, you check and call other poker opponents hands

Pat: If in a game of draw, you don't draw any cards

Play the board: If in a game of hold'em poker you use all five community cards to create a sequence

Pot-Limit: The maximum amount of money you are allowed to bet (all the players included)

Protected Hand: Either placing on top of your cards some object or holding them in your hand to prevent a fouled hand

Rack: The container containing the poker chips or the cards

Raise: Adding to the amount of a previous bet as per the games specifications.

Re-raising: Raising another poker player's raise

River: The final card dealt to any player

Scoop: Winning both the low and the high portions of a pot in a split-pot poker game

Showdown: Finding out which player has won the round of poker. Each player reveals his cards and the player with the strongest sequence wins.

Shuffle: Mixing cards up before dealing out a hand.

Split Pot: When either because the players agreed or because of a tie, the pot has to be divided between players

Stack: The players token which make up a pile

Steal: Causing an opponent to fold or raise when you are bluffing

Straight: 5 consecutive ranked cards

Straight Flush: 5 consecutive ranked cards but of the same suit

Stub: The part of the deck which hasn't been dealt.

Turn: In community cards the 4th card dealt

Turn Card: (relevant to Omaha or hold'em) The 4th street card

UpCards: (relevant to stud games) cards dealt face-up

Wager: Betting or raising. The tokens or chips used for play are also termed wager.

Weak: A poker player who forfeits too many hands and continuously folds.