Poker Terms

Ace-High: Five-cards set containing Ace
Aces Up: Pair of Aces in two pairs
Action: Act of betting
Active Player: Player still in the game.
Add-On: Facility to buy additional chips.
Alligator Blood: A cool player.
All-In: Betting all remaining chips.
American Airlines: Pair of Aces
Angle: Trick, bluff
Ante: Starting Bet
Baby: Low card
Back Door: Hand made in the last two cards
Banker: Player responsible for chips and money
Bankroll: Money available for gambling
Barn: Full House, Boat
Base Deal: To cheat
Berry Patch:  Game with poor players.
Bet: Money in the pot
Bet The Pot:  Bet the total pot
Bicycle: Wheel
Big Bet Poker: Term for pot-limit and no-limit poker.
Big Blind: Forced bet by player in second position.
Big Slick: Ace-King card combination.
Black Leg: Crooked card-sharp.
Blind Raise: Raise without first looking at the cards
Bluff: Enticing competition to fold.
Board: Visible cards
Bobtail Straight: Straight Four cards
Bottom Pair: Lowest pair
Broadway: An Ace High Straight
Bullets: Pair of Aces.
Bump: Raise
Burn: Discard the top card
Bust: Lose bankroll
Button: Dealer’s spot, buck, puck
Buy In: Initial amount to enter a game.
Call: Match the current high bet
Card Room: Casino poker room.
Card Stud: Four cards dealt open
Cash In/out: Leave the game
Caught Speeding: Caught bluffing.
Chameleon: Player who keeps shifting tactics
Chip: Disc substituting cash
Community Card: Common card
Cowboy: King.
Court card: Colored, painted, picture or face card, liner
Cut: Divide the deck.
Cut the Pot: Percentage of pot for the House
Deuce: A two
Down Cards: Hole cards.
Drop: Fold, Lay down, Pass, Put down
Driver’s Seat: Player with strongest hand
Even Money: Win same amount as the bet
Fish: Terrible player. Donkey
Five-Card Draw: Players start with five cards and then draw to replace them.
Five-Card Stud: Players get one concealed and four exposed cards.
Flop: First three community open cards
Freeze Out: Game played till one winner, Shootout
Full house: A hand with 3-of-a-kind and a pair
Heads-Up: Game between two players.
High-low split: When the pot is split between best high hand and best lowball hand
Hole: Concealed cards, pocket
Hooks: Pair of Jacks.
Inside straight: Four straight cards
Knave:  Jack.
Kicker: Highest unpaired side card.
Lady: Queen.
Limit poker: Game with fixed betting amount
Live One: Rich sucker
Lock: Hand that cannot lose
Lowball: Lowest winning hand.
Muck: Discarded cards
Monster: Extremely strong hand
No-limit-poker: No maximum bet limit
Omaha: A flop game
On Tilt: Play shoddily
Open: Expose
Pair: Two similar cards
Pot: Money on Table
Quartered: Split the pot
Raise: Increase bets
River: The last round dealt
Ring: Non-tournament game.
Railbird: Spectator
Royal flush: Best hand, five cards of the same suit. Nuts
Stud:  Form of poker with open cards
Satellite: Small-stakes tournament
Showdown: End point when all the player’s cards are exposed.
Small Blind: Smaller of the two compulsory bettors
Turn: Fourth open deal
Texas Hold ‘Em: A popular poker game
Tell: Player’s weakness
Three flush: Three same suit cards.
Two Pair: Two pairs and kicker.
Under the Gun: First to bet.
Wheel: Lowest hand
Wild card: Joker