Poker Lingo
Poker lingo R - Z
Poker like all things has a unique language with words that have a meaning all of their own. To help you over come this hurdle we have compiled a useful user guide to the commonest phrases in use today. Download our free pdf booklet
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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 - A person who hangs around a poker room watching the games and is looking to get into the action.
Raise - To increase the previous bet.
Rake - Chips taken from the pot by the cardroom for hosting the game.
Rank - The value of each card and hand.
Rap - If a player knocks on the table to indicate that he or she has checked.
Razz - 7 Card Stud where the lowest 5 cards win the pot.
Re-buy - How much a player must pay to add a fixed amount of chips to his/her stack in a tournament.
Re-raise - To raise a raise.
Ring Game - A “live” game that is not a tournament.
River - This is the last card given in all games. In Hold’em & Omaha, it is also known as 5th street. In Stud games, it is also known as 7th street.
Round of Betting - When players have the opportunity to bet, check
or raise. Each round of betting ends when the last bet or raise has been called.
Rounders - Players who hustle for a living.
Royal Flush - Ace high straight of the same suit. (A-K-Q-J-10) 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. For a table.If you wish to play this table you must put your name on the list.
Second Pair - In flop games, when you pair the second highest card on the board.
See To call.
Seven-card Stud - A well-known poker game in which players get 3 face down cards and 4 face up cards. You play the best five of those seven cards.
Seventh Street - This is the final round of betting in Seven Card Stud and Stud 8 or Better.
Shills - Shills are paid props who help start and maintain poker games.
Showdown - After the final betting round, when all active players turn their cards face up 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.
Sixth Street - In 7card Stud, this is the 4th face up card dealt to
the player (their 6th card). It is also the 4th round of betting.
Solid - A fairly tight player
Small Blind - The amount put in the pot by the person immediately
to the left of the dealerbutton before the cards are dealt.
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 game.
Stud Games - Games in which players get down cards and up cards.
Stuck - A player who is losing in a game.
T = Texas Hold'em
T
Texas Hold’em - This is also the name for Hold’em, the most popular
form of poker.
Third Street - In 7 Card Stud and 7 Card Stud 8 or Better, this is the first betting round on the first three cards.
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. or a game that doesn’t much action.
TOC - Tournament of Champions.
Top Pair - In flop games, when the player pairs one of his down cards with the highest card on board.
Treys - A pair of threes.
Trips - Three of a kind.
Turn - In flop games, this is the fourth card dealt. It is the third round of betting.
Two Pair - A hand consisting of two different pairs.
U
Up Card - A card that is dealt face-up.
V-W
Walking Sticks - A pair of sevens.
Wild Card - A card that can be played as any value.
Worst Hand - A losing hand.
WSOP - World Series of Poker
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