Action Player's turn to bet, raise, or fold <\/p>\n
All-in Committing all your chips in a poker hand <\/p>\n
Backdoor A draw requiring two connectors or same suited cards to complete <\/p>\n
Bad Beat An unlucky loss against the odds <\/p>\n
Bankroll Amount of money a player sets aside for poker <\/p>\n
Big blind Mandatory bet before cards are dealt (by player after two seats after button) <\/p>\n
Boat Full house <\/p>\n
Blind Mandatory bet placed before cards are dealt <\/p>\n
Bluff Bet or raise without the best hand in order to induce an opponent's fold <\/p>\n
Board Shared or community cards <\/p>\n
Bubble Player eliminated before the money in a tournament <\/p>\n
Burn The card the dealer discards before dealing community cards <\/p>\n
Button Seat where the dealer is sitting <\/p>\n
Call Bet the amount of another player's bet <\/p>\n
Check Choosing not to bet but stay in the hand <\/p>\n
Chip A token used in poker to represent cash, with different colored chips representing different cash values. <\/p>\n
Continuation bet A bet made post-flop by player who bet first pre-flop <\/p>\n
Drawing dead When a player cannot win the hand, regardless of community cards to come <\/p>\n
Fish An inexperienced or bad player <\/p>\n
Fifth street The final community card, or river, dealt out <\/p>\n
Flop The first three community cards dealt <\/p>\n
Flush A hand consisting of five cards all the same suit <\/p>\n
Fold Throwing away your hand <\/p>\n
Fourth Street The turn card <\/p>\n
Full house A hand consisting of three-of-a-kind plus a pair <\/p>\n
Freeroll A free tournament with no buy-in and a pre-determined prizepool to be won <\/p>\n
Freezeout A game without a re-buy option <\/p>\n
Gutshot Uncompleted straight requiring one card <\/p>\n
Heads-up A poker game between two players only <\/p>\n
Kicker A highest unpaired card in a hand used to break ties <\/p>\n
Limp To call the big blind pre-flop <\/p>\n
Loose A reckless or aggressive player <\/p>\n
Monster A very strong hand <\/p>\n
MTT A multi-table tournament <\/p>\n
Muck To fold a hand without revealing hole cards <\/p>\n
Nuts The best possible hand <\/p>\n
Offsuit Hole cards of different suits <\/p>\n
Outs The cards remaining in the pack that can complete a winning hand <\/p>\n
Overpair Holding a pocket pair higher than any possible using community cards <\/p>\n
Play the board Using all community cards to create hand <\/p>\n
Pocket pair A pair in your starting hand <\/p>\n
Position A player's turn in betting order <\/p>\n
Quads Four of a kind <\/p>\n
Rags Terrible opening hand, like 7-2 offsuit <\/p>\n
Rainbow A flop consisting of cards of different suits <\/p>\n
Raise To bet more than the previous bet <\/p>\n
Rake A percentage of pot taken by cardroom <\/p>\n
River The fifth and final community card <\/p>\n
Satellite A tournament awarding entry into a larger tournament <\/p>\n
Set Three of a kind including a pair in the hole <\/p>\n
Showdown Two or more players revealing cards to decide a winning hand <\/p>\n
Side pot Extra pots contested after a multiple all-in <\/p>\n
Sit and Go A tournament that starts once all seats are filled (normally a single-table tournament) <\/p>\n
Small blind Mandatory small bet before cards are dealt (made by player seated after button) <\/p>\n
Straight A hand consisting of connecting cards <\/p>\n
Split pot An equally divided pot for tied hands <\/p>\n
Tilt A loss control of your emotions in a poker game, meaning you become aggressive and angry (due to a bad beat). <\/p>\n
Top pair A pair including a hole card and the highest community card <\/p>\n
Trips Three of a kind including only one hole card <\/p>\n
Turn The fourth community card <\/p>\n
Under the gun The first player to act before the flop <\/p>\n
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