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Online Poker
Glossary
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Maniac
- A person that bets, raises, re-raises and bluffs a lot
Made Hand - A hand that does not need another card to improve
Mirco-limit - Small limit poker games, i.e. 5c/10c or 10c/25c
Muck - Not showing your cards to the table when either winning
or losing a hand
No-limit
- A type of poker game in which you can bet any amount you like
at any stage, including your entire stack
Nuts - The best possible hand available
Offsuit
- Two cards that are not of the same suit
Open-ended Straight - A hand with 4 cards which only needs
a card at either 'end' to make a straight
Out - A card that will give you a winning hand
Overcard - A card higher than the highest card on the board
Overpair - Pocket pairs that are higher than the highest
card on the board
Play the
Board - A situation where the board is your only hand, i.e.
you have 7s 5c and the board is 3d 10s 10d Jh Jc
Pocket - Cards that only you can see (also called hole cards),
used with the board to create the best 5 card hand
Pocket Pair - Holding two of the same value cards in your
pocket cards
Post - To bet the big blind value, required when you join
or return to a game
Pot-Committed - A situation where, due to your previous bets
and the size of your stack you are forced all-in
Pot-Limit - A type of poker game that allows a maximum bet
of the size of the current pot only
Quads
- 4 of a kind
Rainbow
- A flop that consists of three different suits
Rake - A percentage of the pot kept by the poker operator
Rebuy - Option to buy back into a tournament or game once
you've lost all your chips/money
Ring Game - A standard poker game, not a tournament
River - The 5th and last community card dealt
Rock - A very tight player who bets and raises only when
he has a decent hand and is therefore fairly predictable
Satellite
- Tournaments that do not win you any money but let you play in
a further game, usually for high stakes
Second Pair - Second highest pair possible
Semi-Bluff - A bet made which you hope will not be called
but if it is you have a semi-decent hand to continue playing with,
i.e. you hold 7h Qd and the board comes 7d 3h Jd
Set - 3 of a kind when you hold pocket pairs and a card of
the same value lands on the board
Short Stack - Having considerably less chips/money than other
players at the table
Showdown - The last remaining players showing their cards
to determine the winner
Side Pot - A pot created when betting continues after one
player has gone all-in, he can no longer contribute to the main
pot so a side pot is created which the other players continue to
bet in to
Slow Play - To check or call with a strong hand with the
aim of keeping more players in the pot
Small Blind - The first and smaller of the bets used to start
the game
Split Pot - A pot that's shared between two or more players
because their hand rankings are the same
Stack - Amount of chips or money a player has in a game
Suited - A starting hand that contains two of the same suit,
i.e. 4s 6s
Tilt -
To play recklessly by making bad calls, raises, going all-in with
nothing etc
Top Pair - Highest pair possible
Top Set - Highest three of a kind possible
Trips - 3 of a kind
Turn - 4th community card dealt after betting on the flop
has finished.
Under the
Gun - Player that is first to bet, to the left of the big blind
Wheel -
A straight of any suit from Ace to Five
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