POKER GLOSSARY
How to play Texas Hold'em
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Learn the most commonly used Poker terms with the Poker770 glossary.
In addition to this list (which is comprehensive rather than complete), you can view Game rules and How to play Texas Hold'em
A
Aces Full House: 3 aces and a pair.
Ace-High: a hand with an Ace.
Aces Up: hand with 2 pairs, including a pair of Aces.
Action: betting, checking, raising or folding.
Active player: every player still in a game.
Add-on: extra chips that can be bought at the end of a Sit n Go period of a tournament.
Aggressive: player who bets and raises constantly.
All-in: Bet everything you have.
Ante: obligatory bet all players make before the cards are distributed to players.
B
Backer: someone who provides a player with cash to play with in exchange for a share of the prize money.
Backraise: a raise from a player who had previously checked.
Bad beat: losing a game on the last card, when you were the favourite to win beforehand.
Bullets: a pair of aces.
Bankroll: amount of money a player has to play with.
Bottom pair: a player who uses the lowest card in the flop to make a pair with one of his/her own pocket cards.
Belly Buster: draw giving an inside straight.
Bet: putting chips in the pot.
Bet odds: evaluation of chances of winning after a bet by each player.
Bet limit: Bet limits establish the minimum and maximum chip amounts that players can bet. For example, in a £10/£20 game, the minimum bet limit is £10 and the maximum is £20.
Bet the pot: player betting the pot amount.
Big blind: In Texas Hold'em and Omaha, the second obligatory bet made by the player 2 left of the dealer. It is double the small blind
Big Slick: a hand with an Ace and King.
Blank: a useless card or hand.
Blind: 2 obligatory bets at the start of a bet to establish a pot.
Bluff: betting to make other players think you have a strong hand.
Board: centre of the table where the community cards go. The pot is also left on the Board.
Bonus: a promotion offered by the House which could be a deposit bonus or real chips.
Bonus seeker: a player who only uses bonuses to play with.
(Dealer's) Button: the button which indicates the current dealer in a game.
Bounty: a bonus available for a player to win during a tournament.
Bring it in: starting the first round of betting
Broadway: a straight starting with an Ace.
Burn: a higher card put to one side, face down before each new deal. Burning a card aims to reduce any chance of cheating.
Bubble: The bubble is the lowest position in a poker tournament.
Bump: restarting the game.
Bustout: a player who is eliminated from a tournament.
Buy-in: the minimum or maximum number of chips brought to a table. The participation fee in a tournament.
(Minimum) Buy-ins: the minumum amount to enter a tournament or play a game.
C
Clear: cancel all bets and return the money to the player/s.
Call: making the same bet as the last player in order to stay in the game.
Calling station: a big, passive player, who doesn't raise often and checks more often than s/he should.
Cap: maximum number of bets allowed, during each round of betting.
Community (or Common, or Board) Cards: The cards on the table that anyone an use to make a better hand (see: Rules of the game)
Cards speak: best combination of cards possible.
Case Chips: the last chips a player has.
Cash-game: Rather than a tournament, a free Poker game where players can leave the table and take their cash when they want to.
Cash Out: leaving a game to cash your chips out at the cashier
Chip leader: the player with the most chips in a cash game.
Check: staying in the game without betting, providing no-one else has bet.
Chip race: Withdrawal of chips of the lowest value.
Chop: giving the forced bets to players who made them and moving them to the next game if no other player checks.
Coffeehousing: a discussion amongst players which aims to organise players so that they cause another player to make the incorrect decision, this is a form of cheating and banned.
Collusion: Two players who plan to work together to get money out of the poker site they are playing on, also banned.
Combination: any of the 9 hands you can make in Poker (see: Rules of the game)
Commission: Money taken by the House. Commission is generated by all players playing a hand and not by an individual player. The levels of commission are noted on our website (see: Commission system)
Counterfeit: a card which then makes up a better hand than the one your opponent has.
D
(In the) Dark: Playing in the dark, betting without looking at your own cards. Generally, on the first round of betting on 7 card stud.
Dead Bet: active non-bet where the penalty costs are put into the pot.
Dead Blind : blinds (obligatory bets) made by the 2 players sat to the left of the dealer. If none of the players raise, the layer who made the small blind must call, this amount will not be deducted from his/her bet (dead blind).
Dead Hand: Hand which is no longer eligible in the game.
Dealer (Croupier): the person who distributes the cards
Dealer's position: being the last to act in a round of betting.
Deposit: the amount the player puts into his/her online poker account.
Deuces: a pair of twos.
Door card: The first card revealed in a game of Stud.
Dominant hands: good, solid hands.
Dominated hands: a hand to play which could lose against hands which are neither straights, flushes or similar.
Donkey: an insult for a player who is playing badly but thinks s/he is playing well.
Down (or Hole) cards: the cards given out face down in front of players. Also called private cards in some games.
Draw Poker: variation of poker. Chance of replacing one or more pocket cards.
Drawing dead: Taking a card without any chance of winning.
Drawing Hand: a card that is useless at the beginning but could become part of a strong hand.
Ducks: a pair of twos.
Duel (Heads-up): a game where only 2 players compete against each other.
E
Early position : the players well seated after the blinds.
ECOOP : Acronym for "European Championship of Online Poker". The online European poker championship.
Edge: advantage one player has another at any level.
EPT : Acronym of "European Poker Tour".
F
Faces (paints, picture cards): cards with an image on (Jack, Queen, King).
Family pot : when all players on the table play in a game.
Fee: the amount paid by the player on top of the buy-in to take part in a tournament.
Fifth street: the river.
Financial odds: looking at the amount of money in the pot when you decide whether to check, raise or fold.
Fish: an insult.
Flat Call: follow a bet without raising.
Floorman: someone who supervises the poker floor.
Flop: In Texas Hold'em, the first three communal cards shown face up on the carpet.
Flop games: a variation of poker (Texas Hold'em and Omaha)
Flush: A hand of 5 cards of the same suit (for example: 5 hearts)
Flush draw: a hand one short of a flush.
Fold: When you have a bad hand, give it up and stop playing.
Forced bet, blinds: obligatory first bet, on the 1st round of the game.
Four of a kind: A hand of four identical cards (ex: four jacks).
Fourth street: in a Flop game, the 4th community card (the turn), in the 3rd round of bets.
Free card: cards a player gets following a semi-bluff, in a way that other players check.
Freeroll: A tournament with free entry. A promotion run by the House, which provides the money for the Prizepool.
Freezeout: tournament in which players start with the same number of chips without ay chance of a Re-buy or Add-on.
Full House: A hand of 3 of a kind and a pair (3 Kings and a pair of 10s for example)
G
Garage: progressive accumulation of chips made up of ____, outside regular pots. Next the sum reinjected into the pots in the special games.progressive accumulation progressive of chipsde jetons constituée par les coups blancs, à l'écart des pots habituels. Somme ensuite réinjectée dans les pots pour les coups spéciaux.
Garbage: a rubbish hand.
Grinder: a solid player trying to make big profits.
Gutshot: inside straight draw.
H
Hand: a player's 5 best cards.
Heads-up: the moment when there are only 2 more players in the game.
Hide: throwing your hand away.
High-card: the value of the single highest card that you have.
High/Low: a variable in poker where the highest and the lowest hands pay out.
Hole: the cards a player has in hand.
House: the poker room.
I
Implied odds: chances of calculating from the probable amount of bets and the number of players in the game.
Isolate: raising hoping to only have one more opponent.
Inside straight: a single card needed to make a straight, within the sequence of cards needed.
J
Jackal: an aggressive player who raises and re-raises.
Jackpot : prize given to a player who wins in a series of games.
Jacks-or-Better: a variant of Poker, a player must get at least a pair of Jacks to win.
Jammed: a pot which many raises have been put into.
K
Kansas City Lowball: variation of Poker lowball where the worst hand is the best hand. Also called Deuce to Seven.
Key card: a card which makes up a good draw or a good hand.
Key hand: a decisive game for a player in a tournament.
Kicker: 2nd card used to support the top card.
Kill Pot: a method of stimulating action, a forced bet by a player who just won the pot.
L
Large, loose: an inconsistent player who plays a lot of games.
Ladies: a pair of queens.
Late position: a position in betting where the player is one of the last to bet.
Lay down: folding even when you have a good hand.
Lead: first player to bet in a round of betting.
High limit: a game in which the amount of bets is important.
Low limit: game where the amount of bets is low.
Limit Poker: game with amounts of specific minimal and maximum bets and a number of defined raises.
Limper: 1st player to bet.
Live blind: a player who has made a forced bet, allowed to raise, even if no other player raises (also called an option).
Live Card: in Stud, the cards which still have not been revealed and games that are still in the game.
Live Hand: a hand which could still win
Lobby: The name given to the Poker software that you can download online for free.
Long Shot: a player who does not have a good chance of winning.
Lowball: variation of poker where the lowest hand wins the pot
M
Main pot: the central pot.
Make: shuffling the cards.
Maniac: an aggressive player who plays a lot of games.
Max game draw: a game which cannot be beaten.
Mexican: in Hold'em, 9 cards communal to all players, and 2 cards are their own.
Middle pair: in a Flop game, a player with a pair of cards which are in the middle value of the flop.
Middle position: somewhere in the middle of the round of betting.
Mnemonics: a mental trick which allows you to memorise the game.
Multi-table Tournaments: Tournaments at a fixed time which are played by 12 or more. The winner is the player who still has all his/her chips at the end of the competition.
Muck: not showing your cards after a player has showed a better hand.
N
Nuts: best possible hand in a specific game and the possibilities offered.
No pot limit: When players can bet any amount they like in any round of betting in a game. Bets have to be at least equal to the previous bet.
O
Off suit: cards of a different colour.
Out/s: in poker, the card/s which could improve your hand
Omaha: variation of poker where each player receives 4 pocket cards and 5 community cards.
Open-ended straight: 4 consecutive cards missing one card for a straight.
Open cards: card distributed face down which becomes a community card, used by any player to improve a hand.
Option: bet forced live, made before the cards are distributed.
Out button: in the poker software, it allows each player to not play but to stay at the table.
Outs: cards remaining in the game which could win the hand.
Open: making the first bet.
P
Pair: A hand of two identical cards. It is possible to have 2 identical cards. (ex: two 8 of diamonds)
Pair (Two): A hand of two pairs of cards of the same value (ex: two 8s and two jacks)
Pair (strong): in a Flop game, a player with a pair made up of one pocket card and a community card (or table cards).
Pair (open): pair distributed face up.
Pair (Top): in a Flop game, a player with a pair made up of one of his own cards and the highest community card.
Pair (Superior): having in your hand the highest pair possible.
Post: if the forced bet is missed, the player has to add the chips up to the value of the forced bet.
Picture cards: cards with people on (jack, queen, king).
Play money: Some games are played with "play money", for free, before the new player makes his first deposit, recommended for new players.
Pocket: closed (or hidden) cards.
Pocket rockets: pair of Aces as pocket cards.
Position: a place where a player is in relation to the dealer, allowing to make a bet order.
Pot: The amount of the total bets made in a game.
Pot limit: a game where the maximum bet can only be the same size as a pot
Push: the dealer pushing chips towards the winner at the end of the game.
Private card: The two pocket cards only seen by the one player (see: Rules of the game)
Prize Pool: The jackpot or prize stated before a tournament. Made up of the participants' buy-in.
Q
Quads : 4 of a kind
Qualifier: in Hi/Lo games, what the low hand must achieve to win the pot.
R
Rainbow: 3 cards of different suits.
Real money: The money spent by the player with which he bets. The player has to be aware that as well as winning, you are risking losing your money.
Re-buy: money paid by the player to add to add a fixed number of chips for games during a tournament.
Rail: border of table poker where the barrier is found outside the game area.
Railbird: person watching a game in a poker room and/or waiting to start playing.
Raise: increasing a bet
Rank: value of each card in each hand.
Ratholing: an illegal action (taking money from the table and moving it elsewhere).
Razz: 7 card stud in which the 5 lowest cards win the pot.
Reading: watching a player, checking his behaviour and actions in a game.
Raise (blind): betting without looking at cards.
Raise: Increasing the amount of a bet
(Steal) Raise: a bet made late to ward off other players and perhaps steal the pot.
(Re) Bet: betting the same amount again.
River: the last community card shown.
Ring game: live game (except a tournament).
Rock: a player considered conservative, only betting with a very strong hand.
Round of betting: moment where players can bet, and choose whether to check or raise.
Royal Flush: Ace-King-Queen-Jack-10 of one suit, the strongest possible hand.
Run: playing with more money than is reasonable.
Rush: winning several hands in a row or having a streak of good luck.
S
Short buying: buying chips after the initial purchase.
Short stack: the player with the least chips.
Short-handed: a small hand game with a small amount of players.
Showdown: at the last round of bets, active players show their hand to find out who is the winner. In online poker, the showdown winner is automatically determined.
Sandbagging: holding and checking a good hand. Hiding your hand's strength and allowing other players to make bets.
Satellite: qualification table with a small buy-in which could gain you entry to a much bigger tournament.
Seating list: a player adding its name to a list if there are no places available on the table.
Second pair: make a pair with the help of the second highest card on the table in combination with pocket cards.
Semi-bluff: betting with an average hand or a hand which needs to be improved to win.
Set: having a pocket pair in which the value corresponds to a table card.
Shark: a poker pro.
Shills : name of the employees helping run and organise the games.
Short stack: the player with the least chips
Side pot: second pot for players after someone has gone all-in.
Soft seat: position or favourable game, up against inexperienced players.
Sit'n'go: a tournament that starts once a table is full.
Sit Out: possibility of reserving a seat without taking part in some round but perhaps brought to depositing the amount of the blind if s/he wants to keep a seat.
Sixth street: in 7 card stud, the 4th open card. Also the 4th round of betting.
Small blind: In Texas Hold'em and Omaha, the 1st obligatory bet placed by the player to the left of the dealer. (see: Rules of the game)
Solid: a tight player (playing well).
Split: sharing the pot.
Stack: the chips a player has.
Stay: a player who stays in the game, checking in place of betting.
Step tournament: multi-table tournament where the number of players progressively diminishes.
Stone-cold bluff: betting or raising with a weak hand hoping other players fold.
Straight draw: missing one card to maker a straight
String bet: responding several times for betting chips, without announcing the bet, this is banned.
Strong card: the strongest hand on the table of the cards there.
Structure: Limits set on forced bets and raises, in a specific game.
Stuck: a player who loses.
Stud game: a player receiving open and closed cards at the same time.
Five-card Stud: variation of Poker in which each player receives 5 cards, one hidden and 4 open, with bets on each card.
7-card Stud: variation of Poker where the player has 3 closed cards and 4 open cards and must make up the best hand.
Suited connector : having 2 cards of the same suit which follow each other.
Straight flush: hand of 5 cards in a row in the same suit. (ex: 7,8,9,10,J of hearts)
T
Tell: actions which show what a player is thinking.
Ticket only: Super satellite giving the possiblity of winning a package where only the registration for the live tournament is offered.
Tight: a prudent player.
Two ended straight draw: 4 cards in a row which can make up a straight hi/low.
Three of a kind: 3 identical cards.
Top pair: having the same card as the highest one on the table to make up a pair..
Tournament: Poker competition at a fixed time
Thirty miles: Three 10s.
Treys: a pair of 3s.
Third street: in 7 card Stud or more, the 1st round of betting following the distribution of the first 3 cards.
Turn: The 4th community card (see: Rules of the game)
U
Up Card (visible card): a card visible to all player.
Underdog: a player who is not favourite.
Underpair: pair of cards lower than the lowest value cards in the flop.
V
Vegas: what the French call Texas Hold'em.
W
Walking sticks: a pair of 7s.
Wheel: the poker hand A2345, the lowest possible straight.
Widow-Poker : or Hold'em. An open poker family.
Wild Card: Joker.
Wired Pair: a closed pair.
WOPC: Acronym for "World Online Poker Championship". The top poker tournament. It started in 1970 and brings together the world's best players.
WPT: Acronym for "World Poker Tour". A collection of worldwide tournaments which bring together the world's best players.
WSOP: Acronym for "World Series of Poker". A world poker championship. This event is a Texas Hold'em Pot limit or no limit game for the Main Event in which the entrance fee is $10,000.
It takes every year from June to July
Z
Zoo: a chaotic game (especially in a tournament), all players bet and raise a lot.
The basics
The probabilities' role is to assess whether your game is likely to get you to win the pot. The probabilities count takes place straight after the Flop and if you already have a good game, you just need to bet and raise.
However, if your hand is incomplete, you need to have a plan and be able to make a fast decision, bearing in mind that at Poker you have 52 cards divided into 4 suits, each suit having 13 values.
Thus, if you have 2 cards in hand and according to the hands you could form, you can calculate the probabilities by counting the cards that improve your game.
The 'Outs' at Poker
The 'Outs' stand for the cards that are likely to improve your hand.
To count them, you just need to confront your 'outs' with the number of remaining cards, that is to say – the number of possibilities that your hand won't improve. You can still stay in the competition and call if you find a percentage higher than 10%.
The 'Odds' at Poker
The 'Odds' are your chances of winning or losing and can be presented in 3 ways:
1. As a percentage (e.g.: 11%)
2. As fractions (e.g.: 1 chance out of 9)
3. As odds (e.g.: 8:1)
The odds
The probabilities at poker are not enough and you also need to count the odds.
The count in a form of odd is simple, as it clearly states the ratio Win/Lose. It presents the probability in a form of a ratio : 7 against 1 or 7:1, which means that out of 8 attempts you will win once against 7 defeats.
The count
The count is valid if you search for one card only. If you search for several cards being part of your 'Outs', you need to multiply the probabilities between them every time.
Example: There are 10 players at a table. You have 2 hearts in hand and you find a heart in the Flop.
So, out of 12 hearts in the play, you know 3, so there are 10 hearts left among the remaining 47 cards 52-5 (the Flop + your 2 cards), which makes either 10/47*9/46=0.041, either 4% of chances of finding 2 hearts in the cards that follow each other or 1 chance out of 4 or 3 :1.
Probabilities Table
This table indicates your chances of completing your hand according to your number of 'Out'.
|
OUT |
THE TURN IN% | THE RIVER IN % | TURN OR RIVER IN % |
| 20 | 42.6 | 43.5 | 67.5% |
| 19 | 40.4 | 41.3 | 65.0% |
| 18 | 38.3 | 39.1 | 62.4% |
| 17 | 36.2 | 37.0 | 59.8% |
| 16 | 34.0 | 34.8 | 57.0% |
| 15 | 31.9 | 32.6 | 54.1% |
| 14 | 29.8 | 30.4 | 51.2% |
| 13 | 27.7 | 28.3 | 48.1% |
| 12 | 25.5 | 26.1 | 45.0% |
| 11 | 23.4 | 23.9 | 41.7% |
| 10 | 21.3 | 21.7 | 38.4% |
| 9 | 19.1 | 19.6 | 35.0% |
| 8 | 17.0 | 17.4 | 31.5% |
| 7 | 14.9 | 15.2 | 27.8% |
| 6 | 12.8 | 13.0 | 24.1% |
| 5 | 10.6 | 10.9 | 20.4% |
| 4 | 8.5 | 8.7 | 16.5% |
| 3 | 6.4 | 6.5 | 12.5% |
| 2 | 4.3 | 4.3 | 8.4% |
| 1 | 2.1 | 2.2 | 4.3% |
Good luck!
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