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Action Player's turn to bet, raise, or fold

All-in Committing all your chips in a poker hand

Backdoor A draw requiring two connectors or same suited cards to complete

Bad Beat An unlucky loss against the odds

Bankroll Amount of money a player sets aside for poker

Big blind Mandatory bet before cards are dealt (by player after two seats after button)

Boat Full house

Blind Mandatory bet placed before cards are dealt

Bluff Bet or raise without the best hand in order to induce an opponent's fold

Board Shared or community cards

Bubble Player eliminated before the money in a tournament

Burn The card the dealer discards before dealing community cards

Button Seat where the dealer is sitting

Call Bet the amount of another player's bet

Check Choosing not to bet but stay in the hand

Chip A token used in poker to represent cash, with different colored chips representing different cash values.

Continuation bet A bet made post-flop by player who bet first pre-flop

Drawing dead When a player cannot win the hand, regardless of community cards to come

Fish An inexperienced or bad player

Fifth street The final community card, or river, dealt out

Flop The first three community cards dealt

Flush A hand consisting of five cards all the same suit

Fold Throwing away your hand

Fourth Street The turn card

Full house A hand consisting of three-of-a-kind plus a pair

Freeroll A free tournament with no buy-in and a pre-determined prizepool to be won

Freezeout A game without a re-buy option

Gutshot Uncompleted straight requiring one card

Heads-up A poker game between two players only

Kicker A highest unpaired card in a hand used to break ties

Limp To call the big blind pre-flop

Loose A reckless or aggressive player

Monster A very strong hand

MTT A multi-table tournament

Muck To fold a hand without revealing hole cards

Nuts The best possible hand

Offsuit Hole cards of different suits

Outs The cards remaining in the pack that can complete a winning hand

Overpair Holding a pocket pair higher than any possible using community cards

Play the board Using all community cards to create hand

Pocket pair A pair in your starting hand

Position A player's turn in betting order

Quads Four of a kind

Rags Terrible opening hand, like 7-2 offsuit

Rainbow A flop consisting of cards of different suits

Raise To bet more than the previous bet

Rake A percentage of pot taken by cardroom

River The fifth and final community card

Satellite A tournament awarding entry into a larger tournament

Set Three of a kind including a pair in the hole

Showdown Two or more players revealing cards to decide a winning hand

Side pot Extra pots contested after a multiple all-in

Sit and Go A tournament that starts once all seats are filled (normally a single-table tournament)

Small blind Mandatory small bet before cards are dealt (made by player seated after button)

Straight A hand consisting of connecting cards

Split pot An equally divided pot for tied hands

Tilt A loss control of your emotions in a poker game, meaning you become aggressive and angry (due to a bad beat).

Top pair A pair including a hole card and the highest community card

Trips Three of a kind including only one hole card

Turn The fourth community card

Under the gun The first player to act before the flop

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