All In - Betting all of your chips on the outcome of one hand.
Bad Beat - losing a great hand to a player who beats you on the river having stayed against all odds and common sense.
Big Blind - The bigger mandatory bet
Blind - A mandatory bet.
Bluff - Betting with a hand that will not win the pot if called. Your only hope is to convince the other players that your hand is unbeatable and they should drop.
Board - The face up community cards
Burn - The dealer burns a card by taking it out of play.
Button - The rotating disk that denotes the dealer of any particular hand.
Case Card - The last card of a particular rank or suit. If three aces are gone and you need an ace to make a straight you must catch the case ace.
Check - Not betting the hand but staying in the game
Check Raise - First checking your hand and then raising when it comes back to you
Come - Betting on a hand before you actually have it. For instance betting a four card straight with the hopes that the fifth card will come in the turn or the river.
Flop - The first three community cards.
Flop A Set - If you have a pair of tens in the pocket and the flop contains another ten you have, "Flopped a set."
Hole Cards - Player's face down cards.
Late Position - The Button and two seats to the right.
Limit - betting Structure with high and low bets specified. $3 - $6
Limp In - Enter the pot by calling the blind.
Loose - A player who is loose with his money and bets. He likes to gamble.
Muck - Throw you cards into the discard pile is called, "Muck your hand"
No Limit - Bet or raise any amount that you have on the table.
Nuts - The best possible hand.
Overcard - A queen has two overcards. A King and an Ace.
Pocket - The two down cards in your hand.
Position - Where you sit in relation to the button. It changes with every new hand.
Pot Odds - The relation to the size of the bet to how much is in the pot.
River - The last or fifth community card.
Rake - Money taken by the house to defray the expense of running and the game plus a profit.
Set - A pair in the pocket and a matching card in the flop.
Slow Play - To play your hand pretending that it is much weaker than it is to build the pot
Small Blind - The blind immediately. Almost always half the amount of the Big Blind
Tell - A personal quirk that gives away your hand.
Tight - A player who only plays premium hands.
Tilt - A loss of concentration due to a loosing cycle or a series of bad beats
Turn - The fourth community card
Texas Holdem Tournaments
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