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All-in: betting all of your remaining chips on a poker hand you believe to have won, or betting all of your chips when your chip stack is low in the hopes of doubling up.
Ante: a required bet that all players at the table must put into a pot, for no limit texas holdem, antes usually start after several rounds of play.
Bad Beat: when a poker hand that is the odds on favorite to win is beaten by a lesser hand.
Big Blind: a forced bet by the second player to act in a hand, the big blind also represents the minimum amount that another player must bet in order to enter a pot.
Big Slick: holding an Ace and a King in your hole cards.
Blinds: required bets placed by the first two players to act in a no limit texas holdem poker format.
Bluff: a deceptive bet by a player that has a weak hand, but is being aggressive and representing a much stronger hand.
Boat: slang term for a poker player with a full house, also called a "Full Boat".
Bullets: a poker player holding a pair of Aces, also known as "Pocket Rockets".
Burn Card: a card that is discarded prior to dealing a flop, turn or river.
Buy-in: the cost to join a poker game.
Call: placing a bet equal to a bet placed prior to your turn.
Cash Out: finishing in the money of a poker game.
Catch: having a drawing hand, such as a straight or a flush, and receiving the card(s) needed to make a winning hand.
Check: when you are involved in a hand but elect not to bet any more chips.
Check-Raise: an aggressive play when a player does not bet when it is his turn, but then raises a bettor who enters the hand behind him.
Collusion: when 2 or more players work together against the rest of the table.
Community Cards: the cards that are dealt out face up in texas holdem poker. All of the players may uses these cards to make their hand.
Dealer-button: a table marker that identifies which player is the dealer, this player is dealt cards last and will also act last in the betting rounds after the flop.
Deuces: having a pair of two's as your hole cards.
Donk: a bad poker player, the Donk will play bad cards and generally make many mistakes when compared to "Proper Poker".
Drawing Dead: holding a hand in poker that has no chance of beating another player's hand.
Fifth Street: the final round of betting in texas holdem poker, also known as the "River Card".
Flop: the first three community cards dealt out to players.
Fold: when a player elects to discard his hole cards and cease playing in the current hand.
Fourth Street: the second round of betting in texas holdem poker, also knows as the "Turn Card".
Four Flush: when a player has a combination of four suited cards and hopes to make a flush with a fifth suited card.
Tilt: when a player looses focus and starts making irrational decisions in his poker game. A player can go on tilt due to a poorly played hand, a Suck Out, or from spirited table talk.
Gut Shot: when a player has a combination of four cards that can make a straight, but is missing a middle card to make the straight.
Heads Up: when only two players are playing a game of poker, Heads Up usually occurs at the end of a poker tournament when all of the other players have been knocked out.
Hole Cards: the two cards a texas holdem poker player is holding.
Kicker: the second best card in a players hand, when two players tie with a pair in a hand, the kicker is used to determine who has the better hand.
Limping In: simply calling a bet or raise to stay in a hand.
Monster: a very strong hand that is very difficult to beat.
Muck: cards that are discarded during the course of a hand, players who fold send their cards to the Muck and Burn Cards are also placed in the Muck.
Nuts: holding the best possible poker hand.
Nut Flush: holding the best possible flush, generally an Ace high flush is considered the Nut Flush, but a straight flush beats a Nut Flush and can be considered the best possible flush hand.
Offsuit: having two hole cards that are not in the same suit.
Outs: the number of cards left in the deck that will make a winning poker hand.
Pocket Rockets: holding a pair of Aces as your hole cards.
Proper Poker: playing poker hands as most players expect, that is to raise with strong hands, check or fold with weak hands and bet according to the hand a player is holding.
Quads: making a hand with 4 of a kind.
Rake: the money that is given to the house for hosting a poker game.
Rags: weak cards that have a low percentage chance of winning a poker hand.
Rainbow: on the flop in texas holdem poker when none of the cards are of the same suit.
Raise: when a player bets at a hand or raises the bet of another player already in the hand.
River Card: the final community card dealt in texas holdem poker.
Rock: players who rarely play hands, won't chase hands and only play strong hands are said to be playing like a Rock.
Semi-bluff: when a player bets at a hand that isn't currently winning but has good percentage chance to win by catching the card they need to make their hand a winning hand.
Showdown: after the final card is dealt and all betting has been completed, the remaining players show their cards to determine the winning hand.
Slow Play: a non-aggressive style of poker where players wait for very strong hands and hope that over aggressive players bet so that they can win more chips.
Small Blind: a required bet by the first person to act in a texas holdem poker game, the small blind is half the amount of the big blind and half the minimum amount required to enter a hand.
Splash the pot: throwing chips into a pot, making it difficult to know exactly how many chips have been bet.
Stack: the number of chips that a player has to play with.
Steal: betting aggressively at a pot in the hopes of getting the rest of the players to fold their hands.
Suck Out: when a player with an inferior hand and low odds of improving hits a card that beats a stronger hand.
Suited Connectors: two hole cards of the same suit and in numerical successive rank, for example 67 of hearts.
Turn Card: the fourth community card dealt in texas holdem poker.
Under the Gun: the player who must act first in the next betting round.
