Poker Glossary
- Ante: Small forced bet that everyone has to pay before each hand.
- Big Slick: Ace and King as hole cards in hold em.
- Call: To call is to match the current bet.
- Door Card: First card dealt face up to each player in seven card stud.
- Equity: Your mathematical share of a pot, based on the amount in the pot and your chances of winning it.
- Four of a Kind: Four cards of the same rank.
Gutshot: An inside straight draw. - Heads-Up: Play between only two players.
- In the Air: Traditionally, a poker tournament starts when the tournament director instructs the dealers to get the cards “in the air”.
- Jam: To bet or raise the maximum is to jam.
- Kansas City: Or Kansas City, or Kansas City lowball, is a low only game played for a deuce to seven low.
- Live Blind: A blind bet is considered a live blind if the player is allowed to raise even if no one else raises first.
- Monster: An extremely strong hand, one that is almost certain to win the pot.
- No-Limit: Any game in which there is no limit on the sizes of bets and raises. Note that in table stakes games, players are limited to the amount of money they have in front of them.
- Off-suit: Not of the same suit, especially in reference to hole cards. Sometimes abbreviated to just “off.”
- Pass: To pass is to fold.
- Pot: All the money in the middle of the poker table that goes to the winner of the hand is called the pot. Any player who has not yet folded is said to be “in the pot”. A player who has called an initial bet is said to have entered the pot.
- Quads: Four of a kind.
- Rainbow: Three or four cards of different suits, for example on a flop. (Two cards of different suits are unsuited and five is impossible.)
- Scoop: To win an entire pot.
- Trips: Three of a kind.
- Up: Aces up is two pair with aces as the higher pair. Kings up is two pair with kings as the higher pair.
- Wired: A pair in the hole in seven card stud is a wired pair.
