Poker Glossary
May 17th, 2009
Action: Any betting, calling, raising, or other act made by a player can be referred to as action. If a player calls your bet, you are getting action.
Active Player: A player who has money in the pot and has not folded his hand.
All In: Placing all of your remaining chips into the pot.
Back Door Flush or Straight: A flush or straight made by catching the last two cards to make the hand.
Bet: To voluntarily put money into the pot.
Bad Beat: When you have a good hand that is a favorite to win beaten by another hand.
Blinds: The large and small blinds are forced bets made before the first cards are dealt.
Board: The community cards turned face up in the middle of the table.
Call: To place money in the pot equal to the previous bet.
Calling Station: A player who will not fold his hand and will call all the pots to the river. This is a weak-passive player who rarely raises the pot. You will make your most money from this type of player.
Case Card: The fourth card of a certain rank. If you held two Kings and a third was showing on the board, the fourth King would be the case King.
Chop: When no players have called the blind bets and the two players in the blinds choose to take their bets back rather than to play out the hand.
Cold Call: To call a raise without having already called a bet.
Drawing Dead: Drawing to a hand that has no chance of winning.
Drowning on the River: Getting beat by a player who makes his hand with the river card.
Flop: The first three community cards turned over at the same time. Fold: To cease play by throwing in your hand.
Hole Cards: Two cards dealt face down to be used as the players starting hand.
Muck: The pile of discarded and folded hands along with the burn cards. To muck your hand means to fold.
Nuts: The nuts is the best hand that can be made from the cards on the board and the cards in a player's hand. If you had an Ace high flush, you would have the nut flush.
Overcard: One or both of your pocket cards that are higher than any of the cards on the board.
Overpair: A pocket pair that is higher than any of the cards on the board.
Paint Card: Kings, Queens, and Jacks, also called face cards. You can easily spot a face card by the amount of colors and distinguish it from the other cards.
Pocket Cards: Your two cards that are dealt to you face down. Also
known as hole cards. Pot Odds: The relationship between the money in the pot versus the
amount of money it will cost you to continue in the hand.
Rainbow: A flop that contains three cards of different suits.
Raise: To make a bet that is double the size of the bet made by the previous bettor.
River: The fifth and last community card turned over on the board. Runner: When the turn and river card make a winning hand for a player that would have been a loser otherwise.
See Back Door.
Set: Three of a kind when you have a pair in the pocket.
Showdown: At the end of the final round when all players remaining in the hand turn over their cards to determine the winner.
Side Pot: A pot that is formed after a player goes all in. This pot cannot be won by the all-in player.
Slowplay: To weakly play a strong hand by calling or checking instead of raising. This is done to conceal the strength of your hand.
Smooth Call: To call a bet rather than raise the pot.
Suited: Two cards in a starting hand that are the same suit. A flop consisting of three cards of the same suit would be a suited flop.
Trips: Three of a kind where a pair is on the board and the third card is one of your pocket cards.
Turn: The fourth community card turned over on the board.
Undercard: A card in your hand smaller than the highest card on the board.
Underpair: A pocket pair smaller than the lowest card on the board.
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