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No-Limit - A game where you can bet all of your chips during any betting round. Nuts - The best possible hand. Odds - The ratio of the probability of making a hand vs. the probability of not making a hand. Offsuit - Cards that are not the same suit. Option - When a player posts his blind, he has the "option" of either checking or raising. Out - A card that will help your hand. Usually one that will make your hand a winner. Outdraw - To make a better hand than your opponents by drawing a card. Overcall - To call a bet after one or more players have already called. Overcard - A card that is higher than any other card on the board. If a player is holding KQ with a flop of 864, he is said to have two overcards. Overpair - A pair higher than any other card on the board.
Paint - Picture cards. Pass - To not play a hand if it has been bet or to check if it has been checked to you. Pay Off - To call a bet where you don't think you have the best hand, but the pot is large enough to justify a call. Picture Cards - Any card that has a picture on it. Kings, Queens, and Jacks are picture cards. Play the Board - When the best five cards are the community cards on the board. An example of this is if one player is holding pocket threes and the other player is holding pocket fours and the board is A9988. Pocket - The two hole cards in Holdem or the first two cards in Stud. The cards only you can see. Pocket Pair - Two pocket cards that are the same rank. Position - Your place at the table. The order of betting within a particular betting round. Normally, it is better to be in late position with others acting before you because you can gain information before it's your turn to act. Post - To put up your blinds before the hands are dealt. Pot - The total amount of money to be won or lost during a hand. Pot Limit - Games where the maximum bet that can be made is the size of the existing pot. Pot Odds - The amount in the pot in relation to your chances of making a certain hand and the amount you must put in the pot to continue in the game. Presto - The nickname of the Holdem hand pocket fives. Prop - Short for proposition player. Proposition Player - A person who is employed by the casino to help start games. They also help keep games going if they are in danger of breaking. Although props are paid by the house, the money they use at the table is their own. Protect - To bet so the other player have less of a chance to outdraw you. If they outdraw you, they have to pay to do so.
Quads - Four of a kind.
Race Off - During tournaments, smaller denominations of chips are exchanged for larger chips. Any odd chips are "raced off". This is done by placing all odd chips for each player in front of them. A card is dealt for each chip and the highest cards receive the higher denomination of chips. (If there are ten $5 chips, then the players with the two highest card each receive one $25 chip.) Rack - A place to store your chips while walking from the cage to the table or vice versa. Racks can hold 100 chips in five stacks of 20. Rail - The place where you can watch poker being played. It is a barrier (sometimes imaginary) dividing the playing area from the public area. Railbird - A person who is not playing poker, but watching a game from the rail. Usually used as a derogatory term. Rainbow - In flop games, a flop where there is no cards of the same suit. In Omaha games (where you are dealt four cards), all four hole cards are different suits. Raise - To increase the amount of the previous bet. The increase is determined by the type and the limit style of the game. Ragged - A flop that doesn't seem like it would help anybody.
Rags - Bad cards. In Texas Holdem, 72 are the worst "rag" starting cards. Rake - The amount of money the house is taking for running the game. The cardroom's income. Rank - The numerical value of the cards. Read - To look or listen to someone and be able to determine what their cards might be. Rebuy - To buy more chips. The term is most often heard during some types of tournaments. Represent - To bet in a way that it looks like you have a certain hand. If you are holding the Ace of diamonds (with no other diamond) and the flop brings two diamonds, you might be able to represent a flush draw. If the flush card comes on one of the later streets, you might be able to pick up the pot on a bluff. Reraise - To raise after somebody has already raised. Ring Game - Playing a game at the regular poker tables as opposed to a tournament. River - The final community card in flop games. Another term for the river card is "fifth street", but it is not used as much. Rock - A very tight player. A rock is a player who doesn't create much action at the table and if they are involved in the hand, they are usually the favorite. Rolled Up - In Seven Card Stud it is the term used to describe three of a kind on the first three cards dealt. Royal Flush - A straight flush AKQJT. Runner - Normally said, "runner-runner" to describe a hand in which the turn and the river card help a player's hand. Rush - A term used to describe a winning streak. As in, "The player was on a rush for two hours."
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