Terms
Terms are:
AGGRESSIVE ACTION: A wager that could enable a player to win a pot without a showdown; a bet or raise.
ALL-IN: When you have put all of your playable money and chips into the pot during the course of a hand, you are said to be all-in.
ANTE: A prescribed amount posted before the start of a hand by all players.
BET: The act of placing a wager in turn into the pot on any betting round or the chips put in the pot.
BLIND: A required bet made before any cards are dealt.
BIG BLIND: The largest regular blind in a game.
BROKEN GAME: A game no longer in action.
BURNCARD: After the initial round of cards is dealt, the first card off the deck in each round that is placed under a chip in the pot, for security purposes. To do so is to burn the card; the card itself is called the burncard.
BUTTON: A player who is in the designated dealer position. See dealer button.
BUY-IN: The minimum amount of money required to enter any game.
CHECK: To waive the right to initiate the betting in a round, but to retain the right to act if another player initiates the betting.
CHECK-RAISE: To waive the right to bet until a bet has been made by an opponent, and then to increase the bet by at least an equal amount when it is your turn to act.
COMMON CARD: A card dealt faceup to be used by all players at the showdown in the games of stud poker whenever there are insufficient cards left in the deck to deal each player a card individually.
CUT: To divide the deck into two sections in such a manner as to change the order of the cards.
DEAD CARD: A card that is not legally playable.
DEAL: To give each player cards or put cards on the board. As used in these rules, each deal refers to the entire process from the shuffling and dealing of cards until the pot is awarded to the winner.
DOWNCARDS: Cards that are dealt facedown in a stud game.
FLOP: In Holdem or Omaha, the three community cards that are turned simultaneously after the first round of betting is complete.
FLUSH: A poker hand consisting of five cards of the same suit.
FOLD: To throw a hand away and relinquish all interest in a pot.
FOURTH STREET: The second upcard in seven-card stud or the first boardcard after the flop in Holdem (also called the turn card).
JOKER: The joker is a "partially wild card" in high draw poker and ace-to-five lowball. In high, it is used for aces, straights, and flushes. In lowball, the joker is the lowest unmatched rank in a hand.
KICKER: The highest unpaired card that helps determines the value of a five-card poker hand.
LOWCARD: The lowest upcard at seven-card stud, which is required to bet.
MISDEAL: A mistake on the dealing of a hand which causes the cards to be reshuffled and a new hand to be dealt.
NO-LIMIT: Betting structure where players are allowed to wager any or all of their chips in one bet.
POSITION: (1) The relation of a player's seat to the blinds or the button. (2) The order of acting on a betting round or deal.
POT-LIMIT: Betting structure of a game in which you are allowed to bet up to the amount of the pot
RAISE: To increase the amount of a prior wager. This increase must meet certain specifications, depending on the game, to reopen the betting and count toward a limit on the number of raises allowed.
SMALL BLIND: In a game with multiple blind bets, the smallest blind.
STRAIGHT FLUSH: Five cards in consecutive rank of the same suit.
STREET: Cards dealt on a particular round in stud games. For instance, the fourth card in a player's hand is often known as fourth street, the sixth card as sixth street, and so on.
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