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Ace
Bankroll
Black Jack
Deal
Hard Hand
Pair
Point Count
Shoe
Stand
Up Card
Heads Up
Push
Count
Baby
Bluff Catcher
Bullet
Cow
Deuce
Dog
Final Table
Gypsy
Hunt
Pigeon
Position Bet
Rags
Smooth Call
Stack
Stud
Weak Ace
Bankroll
Black Jack
Deal
Hard Hand
Pair
Point Count
Shoe
Stand
Up Card
Heads Up
Push
Count
Baby
Bluff Catcher
Bullet
Cow
Deuce
Dog
Final Table
Gypsy
Hunt
Pigeon
Position Bet
Rags
Smooth Call
Stack
Stud
Weak Ace
Ace
This is the only card that can have two values for blackjack, either 1 or 11. An Ace is required in the game along with a Ten, Jack, Queen or King.back to top
Action
This refers to the total money that is wagered during a session.
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Banker
In Blackjack, this refers to the dealer that serves as the person who takes the bets. The banker is also the one who collects the money and pays the winner.
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Bankroll
This is the total amount of money that the player intends to bet.
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Basic Strategy
A playing strategy that intends to minimize the house's edge and present the best plays, based on the player's first two cards.
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Black Chip
This refers to a $100 chip.
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Blackjack
Refers to two cards, which have been initially dealt before any draws and totals 21.
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Cut
Refers to the action of splitting the deck in two before the cards are dealt.
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Cut Card
A solid-colored plastic card that is used to cut the decks after shuffling.
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Deal
The action of distributing the cards.
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Face Cards
This refers to Jacks, Queens and Kings, that each have a point value of 10.
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Green Chip
This refers to a $25 chip.
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Hard Hand
This refers to a hand without an Ace, or a hand with an Ace wherein the Ace is valued at 1 point only.
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Hole Cards
These are the faced down cards the value of which is known only to the person that is holding the cards.
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House
This refers to the casino.
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Pair
This refers to two initially-dealt cards of identical numerical value.
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Pat Hand
This refers to a hand with a point value between 17 and 21.
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Peek
This refers to the dealer's up-card which is an Ace; he or she 'peeks' at the hole card to determine if the hand is a Blackjack.
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Point Count
This refers to the total value of the hand and the end of the hand.
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Push
This refers to the tie hand where the dealer's hand and the player's hand have the same value and the wager is returned to the player. This is also known as a draw, tie, or stand-off.
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Red Chip
This refers to a $5 chip.
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Shoe
This refers to the box that holds the undealt cards.
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Shuffle Up
This refers to the act of shuffling the cards prematurely to annoy and discourage card counters.
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Split Hand
This refers to a Pair Split.
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Stand
This refers to an act of refusing an additional card.
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Surrender
This refers to the option of giving up your hand and losing only half your bet.
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Tie
This refers to the situation where the dealer and the player have a hand that has an identical numerical value and where no one wins or loses. This is also known as push or stand off.
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Up-card
This refers to a face-up card.
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Flat bet
The act of betting the same amount on each successive hand.
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Hard hand
Refers to any hand that is not a soft hand.
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Heads up
A game that is played at a table that has no other players.
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Natural
In blackjack, this refers to a hand that totals 21 on the first two cards.
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Preferential shuffling
This is the act of shuffling the deck when the deck is favorable to the players, while avoiding a shuffle when the deck is unfavorable to the players.
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Push
This refers to a tie hand, where the original bet is returned to the player.
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Spread
Refers to the act when you place more than one bet before the cards are dealt.
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Stand
This is the act to stop drawing cards.
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Count
This refers to the number that represents the player's estimate of how favorable or unfavorable it is.
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Playing Efficiency
This refers to the effectiveness of strategy variations that is used in tracking down the optimal playing strategy in reference to the deck composition as it changes. Efficiency is given by the equation E = AG / PG, where AG is called the actual gain from making the strategy changes, while the PG is the possible gain that can be made by using a playing strategy that could be called "computer perfect".
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Air
In a lowball game this means "giving air" or letting an opponent who might otherwise fold know your intention to draw one or more cards to induce him to call.
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Baby
This is a low-ranked card that is usually used in lowball games. Also called "spoke" when between Ace and five.
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Blind Stud
This is a kind of a stud poker game in which all cards are dealt face down. This was popular in California before the legal rulings made traditional stud legal there.
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Blind Off, Blinded
This means to have one's stack reduced by paying increasing blinds in the tournaments.
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Bluff-Catcher
This refers to the last betting round, which is a hand that cannot win if the opponent is making legitimate value bet, though it might win if the opponent's bet was a pure bluff.
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Boat
This is the gambling slang for a full house. This is so named for its resemblance to a boat structure wherein the pair making up the bow and stern and the three-of-a-kind as the hull.
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Bone
This refers to a chip that is often of small denomination.
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Bullet
Refers to an Ace or a chip.
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Bully
This is an act of bluffing repeatedly at all opportunities, or the name of a player who does so.
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Bum Deal
This is the name for a mis-deal.
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Cow
Refers to a player with whom one is sharing a buy-in and has the intent to split the result after the play.
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Crying Call
This is a call that is made reluctantly on the last betting round because of an expectation of losing though still with some remote hope of catching a bluff.
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Deal
This is the act of distributing cards to players in accordance with the rules of the game. In a single instance of poker, this starts by shuffling the cards and ending with the award of a pot. This is also called a "hand" though both terms are ambiguous.
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Deuce
This refers to a 2-spot card or any of the various related uses of the number two, like a $2 limit game, a $2 chip, and etc.
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Dirty Stack
This is a stack of chips that has a chip of the wrong denomination mixed in it.
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Discard
The act of taking a previously dealt card out of play. The set of all discards is then called the "muck" or the "deadwood".
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Dog
This is what you call a person who is an underdog, that is, a player with a smaller chance to win.
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Donation
This is a call made by a player who fully expects to lose.
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Donk, Donkey
This is the epithet for an inexperienced, unskilled, and foolish poker player.
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Final Table
This refers to a multi-table tournament.
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Fire
The act of making the opening bet of a round. The term follows the same analogy wherein the chips are called "ammo".
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Fish
This refers to an unskilled player, or an otherwise skilled player that is playing carelessly. He or she is also known as "donkey".
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Gypsy
The act of entering a pot cheaply by just calling the blind rather than raising it. This is also called a "limp".
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Hard
Word used to describe an aggressive and uncompromising play.
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Here Kitty Kitty
Refers to a conspicuously small bet that is made with a very powerful hand in the hope of getting a call from opponents who would otherwise fold to a normal-sized bet.
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Hunt
The act of looking further into the deck after the hand is over to see what cards are next. This is also called "fox hunt", "rabbit hunt".
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Immortal
This is often said of a hand that a player knows cannot be beaten under circumstances of play. He or she is also called "lock," "nuts." Also called unbeatable.
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Kitty
What you call a pool of money that is built by collecting small amounts from certain pots. This is often used to buy refreshments, cards, and etc.
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Pigeon
Refers to a bad player.
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Pocket Pair
In community card poker or stud poker, this refers to a player's private cards that makes up a pair. It is also called "wired pair".
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Poker Face
This refers to a blank face that does not reveal anything about the cards that is being held. This is often used metaphorically even outside the world of poker.
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Position Bet
This is a bet that is made more due to the strength of the bettor's position than the strength of the bettor's cards.
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Proposition Player, Prop
This refers to a player that gets paid an hourly rate to start poker games or to keep it active. The prop players play with their own money, which also distinguishes them from shills who only play with the casino's money.
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Push
The act of putting yourself all-in to the game.
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Rags
This refers to worthless cards. This often refers to small cards that is dealt in high-hand games, while high cards in low games are often called "bricks" or "bombs." Also referred to as "blank."
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Set-Up
This refers to a deck that has been ordered, usually with a King to Ace by suit (Spades, Hearts, Clubs and Diamonds).
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Short-handed
This refers to a poker game that is played with around six players or even less. This is opposed to a full ring game, which is usually composed of nine or ten players.
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Smooth Call
This is also known as a "flat call" as compared to "cold call" or "overcall."
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Speeding
This is the act of playing very loose with no identifiable pattern. It also means to bluff frequently and is also known as speeding around as compared to "fast."
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Spread
This refers to the range that is between a table's minimum and maximum bets.
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Stack
This refers to a collection of 20 poker chips of the same denomination which is usually arranged in an orderly column.
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Stakes
This is what you call of the amount one buys in for and can bet.
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Steam
This is the act of playing recklessly when one is frustrated and is comparable to "tilt."
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Stuck
The predicament of having lost money.
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Stud
This is a variant of poker and could also refer to a card dealt face up in Stud poker.
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Suck out
The act which means drawing a winning hand despite poor odds.
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Wash
This is the act that is to mix the deck by spreading the cards face down on the table and mixing them up again.
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Weak Ace
This refers to an Ace with a low kicker and is also called as the "small Ace," "soft Ace," or "Ace-rag."
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Whipsaw
This refers to a player who is caught in the middle between two raisers and therefore must call each bet because of the pot odds.back to top
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