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Maniac: A player who does a lot of
hyper-aggressive raising, betting, and bluffing. A true
maniac is not a good player. A player who occasionally
acts like a maniac and confuses his opponents is quite
dangerous.
Made
Hand:
A hand to which you're drawing, or one good enough that
it doesn't need to improve.
Micro-Limit: Games so small that
they couldn't be profitably dealt in a real card room.
They exist only at online poker sites.
Muck: The pile of folded and
burned cards in front of the dealer. Also used as
a verb.
Narrowing the Field:To
bet or raise in the hopes that you will drive out some
players whose hands are currently worse than yours, but
who might improve if allowed to stay in.
No-Limit: A version of poker in
which a player may bet any amount of chips (up to the
number in front of him) whenever it is his turn to act.
It is a very different game from limit poker.
Nuts: The best possible hand given
the board. If the board is Ks-Jd-Ts-4s-2h, then As-Xs is
the nuts. You will occasionally hear the term applied to
the best possible hand of a certain category.
Off-suit: A hold'em starting hand
with two cards of different suits.
One-Gap: A hold'em starting hand
with two cards two apart in rank. Examples: J9s, 64.
Out: A card that will make your
hand win. Normally heard in the plural. Example: "Any
spade will make my flush, so I have nine outs."
Outrun: To beat. Example: "Susie
outran my set when her flush card hit on the river."
Overcall:
To call a bet after one or more others players have
already called.
Over-card: A card higher than any
card on the board. For instance, if you have A-Q and the
flop comes J-7-3, you don't have a pair, but you have
two over-cards.
Over-pair: A pocket pair higher
than any card on the flop. If you have Q-Q and the flop
comes J-8-3, you have an over-pair.
Pat: A hand that you make on the
flop. For instance, if you have two spades in your hand
and the flop has three spades, then you've flopped a pat
spade flush.
Pay Off: To call a bet when the
bettor is representing a hand that you can't beat, but
the pot is sufficiently large to justify a call anyway.
Play the Board: To show down a
hand in hold'em when your cards don't make a hand any
better than is shown on the board. For instance, if you
have 2-2, and the board is 4-4-9-9-A (no flush
possible), then you must "play the board": the best
possible hand you can make doesn't use any of your
cards. Note that if you play the board, the best you can
do is split the pot with all remaining players.
Pocket: Your unique cards that
only you can see. For instance, "He had pocket sixes" (a
pair of sixes), or "I had ace-king in the pocket."
Pocket Pair: A hold'em starting
hand with two cards of the same rank, making a pair.
Example: "I had big pocket pairs seven times in the
first hour. What else can you ask for?"
Post: To put in a blind bet,
generally required when you first sit down in a card
room game. You may also be required to post a blind if
you change seats at the table in a way that moves you
away from the blinds.
Pot:
The money in the center
of the table, being contested by the players still
remaining in the hand.
Pot-committed: A state where you
are essentially forced to call the rest of your stack
because of the size of the pot and your remaining chips.
Pot-Limit: A version of poker in
which a player may bet up to the amount of money in the
pot whenever it is his turn to act. Like no-limit, this
is a very different game from limit poker.
Pot Odds: The amount of money in
the pot compared to the amount you must put in the pot
to continue playing.
Price: The pot odds you are
getting for a draw or call.
Protect:
To keep
your hand or a chip on your cards. This prevents them
from being fouled by a discarded hand, or accidentally
mucked by the dealer. Or to invest more money in a pot
so blind money that you've already put in isn't
"wasted".
Put On: To mentally assign a hand
to a player for the purposes of playing out your hand.
Quads: Four cards of a kind.
Ragged: A flop (or board) that
doesn't appear to help anybody very much. A flop that
came down Jd-6h-2c would look ragged.
Rainbow: A flop that contains
three different suits, thus no flush can be made on the
turn. Can also mean a complete five card board that has
no more than two of any suit, thus no flush is possible.
Rake: An amount of money taken out
of every pot by the dealer. This is the card room's
income.
Rank: The numerical value of a
card (as opposed to its suit). Example: "jack," "seven."
Re-buy: An option to buy back into
a tournament after you've lost all your chips.
Tournaments may offer one or more re-buys or (often)
none at all.
Represent: To play as if you hold
a certain hand. For instance, if you raised before the
flop, and then raised again when the flop came ace high,
you would be representing at least an ace with a good
kicker.
Ring Game: A regular poker game as
opposed to a tournament. Also referred to as a "live"
game since actual money is in play instead of tournament
chips.
River: The fifth and final
community card, put out face up, by itself. Also known
as "fifth street."
Rock: A player who plays very
tight, not very creatively. He raises only with the best
hands. A real rock is fairly predictable: if he raises
you on the river, you can throw away just about anything
but the nuts.
Runner: Typically said
"runner-runner" to describe a hand that was made only by
catching the correct cards on both the turn and the
river. Example: "He made a runner-runner flush to beat
my trips." See also "backdoor."
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