Glossary of Online Poker Terms

• Action – player's turn to bet, raise, or fold
• All-in – to commit all your chips in a poker hand
• Ante – mandatory bet by all players before cards are dealt
• Backdoor – draw requiring two connectors or same suited cards to complete
• Bad beat – player’s bad loss against the odds
• Bankroll – amount of money a player sets aside for poker
• Big blind – mandatory bet before cards are dealt made by player two seats after button
• Boat – full house
• Blank – community card that doesn't help a hand
• Blind – mandatory bet placed before cards are dealt
• Bluff – bet or raise without the best hand to induce an opponent's fold
• Board – shared or community cards
• Bottom pair – pair including a hole card and lowest community card
• Bounty – cash prize for eliminating a tournament player
• Bubble – player eliminated before the money in a tournament
• Burn – card dealer discards before dealing community cards
• Button – moving mark indicating where the dealer (Seat 1) is sat
• Buy-in – amount of money required to enter a tournament
• Call – bet the amount of another player's bet
• Calling station – player who often calls bets but rarely raises
• Cap – last raise permitted in a Limit Poker betting round
• Check – choosing not to bet but stay in the hand if there has been no previous bet
• Connector – Texas Hold’em hole cards in sequence
• Continuation bet – bet made post–flop by player who bet first pre–flop
• Deuce – two
• Draw – hand needing specific cards to complete
• Drawing dead – player cannot win hand, regardless of community cards to come
• Equity – value in a pot
• Fish – inexperienced/bad player
• Fifth street – river
• Flop – first three community cards dealt
• Flush – hand consisting of cards all the same suit
• Fold – return cards to the dealer, end participation in the hand
• Fourth street – turn
• Full house – hand consisting of three of a kind plus a pair
• Freeroll – tournament with no buy–in required
• Freezeout – game without rebuy option
• Gutshot – uncompleted straight requiring one card
• Heads-up – poker between two players only
• Hole cards – cards dealt face down to player
• Kicker – highest unpaired card in a hand used to break ties
• Limp – call the big blind preflop
• Loose – describes a reckless or aggressive player
• Monster – strong hand
• MTT – Multi–Table Tournament
• Muck – fold a hand without revealing hole cards
• Nuts – best possible hand
• Offsuit – hole cards of different suits
• Open – make the first bet
• Outs – cards remaining in the pack that can complete a winning hand
• Overcard – hole card higher than any on the board
• Overpair – pocket pair higher than any possible using community cards
• Play the board – using all community cards to create hand
• Pocket pair – pair of hole cards
• Position – player's turn in betting order
• Post – place bet
• Push – bet or raise all–in
• Quads – four of a kind
• Rags – bad opening hand
• Rainbow – a flop consisting of cards of different suits
• Raise – to bet more than the previous bet
• Rake – percentage of pot taken by cardroom
• Ring game – cash game
• River – fifth and final community card
• Satellite – tournament awarding entry into larger tournament
• Set – three of a kind including two hole cards
• Shootout – tournament with winner of each table progressing to next round
• Showdown – players reveal cards to decide a winning hand
• Side pot – extra pots contested after a multiple all–in
• Sit and Go – tournament that starts once all seats are filled. Normally single–table
• Small blind – mandatory small bet by player after button before cards are dealt
• Straight – hand consisting of connecting cards
• Third street – flop
• Split pot – equally divided pot for tie hands
• Tilt – emotional distress/loss of concentration due to bad beat
• Top pair – pair including a hole card and highest community card
• Trey – three
• Trips – three of a kind including only one hole card
• Turn – fourth community card
• Under the gun – first player to act before the flop
• Value bet – bet made to induce a call