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L
Ladies: Two Queens.
Late Position: Position on a round of betting where the player must act after most of the other players have acted (usually considered to be the two positions next to the button).
Lay Down Your Hand: When a player folds.
Lead: The first player to bet into a pot.
Limit Poker: A game that has fixed minimum and maximum betting intervals along with a prescribed number of raises.
Limp In: To enter the pot by calling rather than raising. (The usual concept of ‘Limp In’ is when the first person to speak just calls the Big Blind.)
Limper: The first player who calls a bet.
Live Blind: An instance where the player puts in a dark bet and is allowed to raise, even if no other player raises. It’s also known as an ‘option’.
Live Hand: A hand that could still win the pot.
Live One: A not so knowledgeable player who plays a lot of hands.
Look: When a player calls the final bet before the showdown.
Loose: Is a player who plays a lot hands.

M
Main Pot: The center pot. Any other bets are placed in a side pot(s) and are contested among the remaining players. This occurs when a player(s) goes all-in.
Make: To make the deck is to shuffle the deck.
Maniac: A very aggressive player who plays a lot of hands.
Minimum Buy-In: The least amount you can start a game with.
Monster: A very big hand. In a tournament, a player who begins to accumulate chips after having a small stack is considered to be a monster.
Muck: To discard or throw away your hand. It’s also a pile of cards that are no longer in play.

N
No Limit: A game where players can bet as much as they like (as long as they have it in front of them) on any round of betting.
Nuts: The best possible hand at any point of the game. A hand that cannot be beat.

O
Odds: The probability of making a hand vs. the probability of not making a hand.
Offsuit: Cards of a different suit.
Omaha: A game in which each player is dealt four down cards with five community cards. To make your hand, you must play two cards from your hand and three from the board.
Open: To make the first bet.
Open Card: A card that is dealt face-up.
Open Pair: A pair that has been dealt face-up.
Open-ended: Straight Four consecutive cards whereby one additional (consecutive) card is needed at either end to make a straight.
Option: An option is a Live Blind made in the dark before the cards are dealt. If no one raises, the ‘option’ player may raise the pot.

P
Paints: Face or picture cards (Jack, Queen and King).
Pair: Two cards of the same face or number value.
Pass: To fold.
Pay Off: To call on the final round of betting when you may or may not think you have the best hand.
Picture Cards: Face cards (Jack, Queen and King).
Play Back: To raise or re-raise another player’s bet.
Pocket: The down cards or hole cards.
Pocket Rockets: A pair of Aces in the pocket or hole.
Position: Where a player is seated in relation to the dealer, therefore establishing that player’s place in the betting order.
Post: When you post a bet, you place your chips in the pot. (You must post the Blinds.)
Pot: The money or chips in the center of a table that players try to win.
Pot Limit: This is a game where the maximum bet can equal the pot.
Prop: A person hired by the cardroom to work as a shill.
Push: When the dealer pushes the chips to the winning player at the end of a hand. It’s also when dealers rotate to other tables.
Put Down: To fold a hand.

Q
Quads: Four of a kind.

R
Rack: A tray that holds 100 poker chips in five stacks of twenty chips each.
Rail: The rim of a poker table or a barrier outside a poker area.
Railbird: Someone who hangs around a poker room who watches the games and/or is looking to get into action.
Raise: To increase the previous bet.
Rake: Chips taken from the pot by the cardroom for compensation for hosting the game.
Rank: The value of each card and hand.
Rap: When a player knocks on the table indicating that he/she has checked.
Re-buy: The amount of money a player pays to add a fixed number of chips to his/her stack in a tournament.
Re-raise: To raise a raise.
Ring Game: Any table game that is not a tournament.
River: This is the last card given in all games. In Hold’em and Omaha, it is also known as 5th street. In Stud games, it is also known as 7th street.
Round of Betting: This is when players have the opportunity to bet, check or raise. Each round of betting ends when the last bet or raise has been called.
Royal Flush: This is an Ace high straight (A-K-Q-J-10) of the same suit. It is the best possible hand in poker.

S
Satellite: It is a mini-tournament to gain an entry into a larger tournament.
Scoop: To win the entire pot.
Seating List: A waiting list. A player would put his or her name on this list if there were no seats at the table at which they wish to play.
See: To call.
Shills: Shills are paid props who help start and maintain poker games.
Short Handed: A game in which there are six or fewer players–but two or more– sitting at a 6 max table or five or less players sitting at a full table.
Showdown: At the end of the final betting round, it’s when all active players turn their cards faceup to see who has won the pot.
Side Pot: A separate pot(s) which is contested by remaining active players when one or more players are all-in.
Small Blind: The amount put in the pot by the person immediately to the left of the dealer ‘button’ prior to the cards being dealt.
Soft: A soft game is a game which features players who play too many hands, and go too far with them.
Solid: A fairly tight player (and reasonably good).
Speed Limit: A pair of fives.
Split: Tie.
Stack: A pile of chips.
Stay: When a player remains in the game by calling rather than raising.
Steel Wheel: A five high straight (A-2-3-4-5) of the same suit.
Straddle: A straddle is a Blind bet which is usually double the size of the Big Blind\ (and that player may raise when the action gets to him).
Straight: Five consecutive cards of any suit.
Straight Flush: Five consecutive cards of the same suit.
Structure: The limits put on the blinds/ante, bets, and raises in any particular game.
Stuck: A player who is losing in a game.

T
Texas Hold’em: This is also the name for Hold’em, the most popular form of poker.
Thirty Miles: Three tens.
Three of a Kind: Three cards of the same number or face value (’trips’).
Tight: A player who doesn’t play many pots. A tight game is one that doesn’t have much action.
TOC: Tournament of Champions.
Treys: A pair of threes.
Trips: Three of a kind.
Two Pair: A hand consisting of two different pairs.

U
Up Card: A card that is dealt face-up.

W
Walking Sticks: A pair of sevens.
Worst Hand: A losing hand.
WSOP: World Series of Poker.

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