Glossary - a-b

Poker Term	Poker Term Description
abc	A player who always plays his cards the same way.

ace high	A five-card hand containing an Ace but no pair.

aces full	A Full House with Aces over any pair.

aces up	Two pairs one of which is an Ace.

action	A players turn to act.

active player	A player still in the pot.

add on	The opportunity to buy additional chips.

advertise	To make a bluff with deliberate intention of being exposed as a loose player.

alligator	Plays well under pressure or nerves of steel.

all in	Betting all of your remaining chips.

an ace working	An Ace in hand.

angle	Any technically legal but ethically suspicious way to increase your expectation at a game, a trick.

american airlines	A pair of Aces in the hole.

ante	Forced bet that players must make before seeing any cards. This guarantees money in the kitty for each hand.

baby	A small card.

back door	Hand made in the last two cards.

bad beat	Losing when you have a very strong hand, usually to a very unlikely draw on the last card.

baggage	An onlooker of a poker game who is broke and cannot play.

bait	A small bet designed to induce opponents to stay, bet or raise.

bank	The container of poker chips representing money in the game.

bank roll	The total amount of money you plan to gamble with.

base deal	Dealing cards from the bottom of the pack rather than the top. A form of cheating.

beat the board	A hand that can beat any exposed card or card that are shown in any players up-cards around the table.

beef	A complaint.

behind	You are behind if you do not have the best hand before the last cards have been dealt.

belly buster	An inside straight draw.

berry patch	An easy game with many poor players.

bet	To put money into the pot.

bicycle	A straight, A-2-3-4-5.

big slick	Pocket Ace/King.

blank	A card that has no value.

blind	Mandatory bet before each round. Usually the player two places to the left of the dealer will have to pay the Large Blind. The player to the immediate left of the dealer will have to bet half as much for the small blind.

blind opening	Compulsory opening of the pot by a blind bet s in any for of Stud And Draw Poker which has to be agreed upon by mutual consent at start of play.

blind raise	When a player raises without looking at their cards.

blood money	Money that is hard to come by.

blow	To loose.

blow back	To loose back ones profits.

bluff	To bet strongly whilst holding a poor hand making other players Believe you have a strong hand and attempting to make players Fold their cards.

board	The visible cards in a Poker game. These are the community Cards in games like Hold-em and Omaha and the up cards in Stud games.

boat	Another form of Full House.

bottom pair	The lowest pair on the board in Hold-em or Omaha.

bounty	A small amount of cash awarded to a player when he knocks Out another player.

brick	A blank.

bring in	To open a round of betting.

broadway	An Ace High Straight.

brush	Cardroom employee who handles the seating chart.

buck	In all flop games a small disk used to indicate the dealer, or Used to signify the player in the last position if a house dealer Is used.

bug	A Joker that can be used to make straights and flushes and can Be paired with Aces but not with any other cards.

bullets	A pair of Aces in the hole.

bump	To Raise.

burn	To deal off the top card, face-down before dealing out the cards.

buried pair	In stud games a pair in the hole.

bust	A worthless hand that has failed to improve as the player hoped.

busted flush	A hand with only four or five cards in a flush.

burn	To discard the top card of the deck. This is done to prevent Anyone from being able to determine the next card.

button	An acrylic white disk to indicate who is the dealer.

buy in	The amount you must pay to enter a game.