Poker Slang

Welcome to PokerDictionary.net. Confused by some of the poker terminology and lingo? This site is here to help you better understand the talk from opponents. You can find some of the best places to play at bestonlinecasinos.org.uk, but before you can master the game, you need to get familiar with all the poker terms and poker slang used by Texas Holdem players, both online and live.

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This page is a dictionary and glossary of 280+ poker terms and acronyms and counting. If you want to know what was meant by a “three-bet”, “continuation bet”, “donkey”, “squeeze play” or any other expressions used by the global poker playing community, you should browse through the poker dictionary below. Definitions include cross-links, real world examples, and related terms to help you dig deeper into the language of poker. Knowing the main poker terms will make analyzing and discussing poker hands with your friends a much easier task.

Aug 06, 2019 In an interview with ABS-CBN News, street-savvy Moreno said the phrase is often used by pusoy (Filipino poker) players who are irritated with those who pester or butt-in on their games with useless comments. It is street speak he is most familiar with, a language he uses in interacting with his constituents. A A Game - The highest stake ring game in a bricks and mortar or online poker room. A Team - A slang term sometimes used for the poker hand Ace 10 (A-10). Ace High - A hand where no other hand exists (such as a pair or straight) will be won by the player who has the highest card.

Glossary of Poker Terms: Alphabetical Listing

• 6-Max
  
• ABC Poker
  
• Ace High
  
• Ace Rag
  
• Action
  
• Active Player
  
• Add-on
  
• Air
  
• All In
  
• Alligator Blood
  
• Angle Shooting
  
• Ante
  
• ATM
  
• Avatar
  
• Baby Flush
  
• Backdoor
  
• Bad Beat
  
• Bad Beat Jackpot
  
• Badugi
  
• Bankroll
  
• Barrel
  
• BB
  
• Bet the Pot
  
• Betting Line
  
• Betting Pattern
  
• Big Bet Poker
  
• Big Blind Special
  
• Big Pair
  
• Big Slick
  
• Bitcoin Poker
  
• Black Friday
  
• Blind
  
• Blind Stealing
  
• Blocker
  
• Blocking Bet
  
• Bluff
  
• Bluff Catcher
  
• Board
  
• Bonus Rollover
  
• Bonus Whoring
  
• Bottom Pair
  
• Bounty
  
• Brick
  
• BRM
  
• Broadway Card
  
• Bubble
  
• Bum Hunting
  
• Burn Card
  
• Button
  
• Buy-In
  
• BvB
  
• BWCT
  
• Call
  
• Calling Station
  
• Cap
  
• Caribbean Stud Poker
  
• Cash Game
  
• Chase
  
• Chat Box
  
• Check
  
• Check Fold
  
• Check in the Dark
  
• Check Raise
  
• Chip Dumping
  
• Chip Leader
  
• Coffee Housing
  
• Cold Deck
  
• Collusion
  
• Combo Draw
  
• Community Card
  
• Computer Hand
  
• Continuation Bet
  
• Cooler
  
• Counterfeiting
  
• Cutoff
  
• Dead Man’s Hand
  
• Dead Money
  
• Deal It Twice
  
• Dealer
  
• Dominated
  
• Donk Bet
  
• Donkey
  
• Double Belly Buster
  
• Double Or Nothing
  
• Doyle Brunson
  
• Draw
  
• Draw Poker
  
• Drawing Dead
  
• Dry Board
  
• Early Position
  
• Effective Stack
  
• EP
  
• EPT
  
• Equity
  
• EV
  
• Face Card
  
• Face Up
  
• Fast Play
  
• Final Table
  
• Fish
  
• Fit or Fold
  
• Five of a Kind
  
• Float Play
  
• Flop
  
• Flush
  
• Flush Draw
  
• Fold
  
• Fold Equity
  
• Four of a Kind
  
• Four-Bet
  
• FPS
  
• Free Card
  
• Freeroll
  
• Full House
  
• Gambler’s Fallacy
  
• Garbage Hand
  
• Grinder
  
• GTD
  
• Gutshot
  
• Hand History
  
• Hand Odds
  
• Hand-for-Hand
  
• Heads-Up Poker
  
• Heater
  
• Hero Call
  
• High Card
  
• High Stakes Poker
  
• Hit and Run
  
• Holdem
  
• Home Game
  
• HORSE
  
• HU4Rollz
  
• HUD
  
• ICM
  
• Implied Odds
  
• Inducing
  
• IP
  
• Isolation Play
  
• ITM
  
• Jacks or Better
  
• Kicker
  
• LAG
  
• Late Position
  
• Lead
  
• Let It Ride Poker
  
• Levelling
  
• Limit Poker
  
• Limp
  
• LP
  
• Main Pot
  
• Maniac
  
• Metagame
  
• Micro Stakes
  
• Middle Pair
  
• Middle Position
  
• Misclick
  
• MP
  
• MTT
  
• Muck
  
• Multi-Accounting
  
• Multi-Tabling
  
• Nit
  
• Nitroll
  
• No Deposit Bonus
  
• Nosebleeds
  
• Nuts
  
• Omaha
  
• Omaha Hi/Lo
  
• One Pair
  
• OOP
  
• Open Raise
  
• Orbit
  
• Outs
  
• Overbet
  
• Overcall
  
• Overcard
  
• Overlay
  
• Overlimp
  
• Overrolled
  
• Pai Gow Poker
  
• Payout Structure
  
• PFR
  
• Pineapple Poker
  
• PLO
  
• Pocket Pair
  
• Poker Bot
  
• Poker Etiquette
  
• Poker Face
  
• Poker Range
  
• PokerStove
  
• PokerTracker
  
• Position
  
• Postflop
  
• Pot Committed
  
• Pot Limit Omaha
  
• Pot Odds
  
• Preflop
  
• Preflop Aggressor
  
• Protect
  
• Rabbit Hunting
  
• Rack
  
• Ragged
  
• Railbird
  
• Rainbow Flop
  
• Rake
  
• Rakeback
  
• Range Merging
  
• Rank
  
• Re-Buy
  
• Results Oriented Thinking
  
• Ring Game
  
• River
  
• RNG
  
• Royal Flush
  
• Runner Runner
  
• Satellite
  
• SB
  
• Scare Card
  
• Semi-Bluff
  
• Set
  
• Shark
  
• Shootout
  
• Short Deck Poker
  
• Short Stack
  
• Short-Handed
  
• Showdown
  
• Side Pot
  
• Sit and Go
  
• Sitting Out
  
• Slow Play
  
• Slowroll
  
• Small Ball Poker
  
• Snapcall
  
• Soft Play
  
• Speed Poker
  
• Spew
  
• Spin and Go
  
• Splash The Pot
  
• Split
  
• SPR
  
• Squeeze Play
  
• Stake
  
• Staking
  
• Starting Hand
  
• Steps Tournaments
  
• Stone Cold Bluff
  
• Straddle
  
• Straight
  
• Straight Draw
  
• Straight Flush
  
• String Bet
  
• Strip Poker
  
• STT
  
• Stud Poker
  
• Suckout
  
• Suited
  
• Suited Connectors
  
• Super Satellite
  
• TAG
  
• Tanking
  
• Tapping the Glass
  
• Tell
  
• Three Card Poker
  
• Three of a Kind
  
• Three-Bet
  
• Three-Bet Light
  
• Tilt
  
• Time Bank
  
• Top Pair
  
• Top Two
  
• Tournament
  
• Tournament Director
  
• TPTK
  
• Turbo
  
• Turn
  
• Two Pair
  
• UIGEA
  
• Underrolled
  
• UTG
  
• Value Bet
  
• Variance
  
• Verbal
  
• Video Poker
  
• VPIP
  
• Wait for Big Blind
  
• Walk
  
• WAWB
  
• Weak
  
• Wet Board
  
• Wild Card
  
• Winrate
  
• WPT
  
• Wrap
  
• WSOP
  

I hope you can put this poker lingo to good use in both speaking to other poker players, and understanding different aspects of the game. Poker lingo is an important tool in helping you to understand what advice others are giving. Additionally, if the other players at the table realize that you are not familiar with the poker terms then they might gauge that you are a new player.

Man can’t survive on poker lingo alone though, so please continue on through this website, and learn more about Texas Hold’em and other poker variants. If you have any questions or would like to submit a phrase request for a poker term that you are not familiar with and is not already on our site, please contact us at info @ pokerdictionary.net – New poker terms and acronyms are added to our site all the time, so check back often!

Just when you thought you had a decent grasp of the poker basics, Texas Hold’em came along with its intimidating terminology, multi-million-dollar tournaments, and poker rock stars. Forget about the odds of getting a royal flush and learn the main jargon and poker slang being slung.

Added bonus: learning poker slang is a great way to learn the game as well.

This is by no means a comprehensive list of every wacky word on the lips of the latest litter of poker cowpokes on the circuit. But as a good starting point for the Texas Hold’em beginner, consider this your poker primer.

Essential Hold’em Terms

Texas Hold’em has a stable full of wild and wooly terms, but before we take the bull by the horns, let’s start with the essential poker terms you need to know to navigate the Hold’em table, whether you’re playing in a land-based casino or at an online casino poker tournament. Ante up!

ALL-IN

When you bet all your remaining chips on a single hand of cards. You either have some really unbeatable cards (like four aces or a straight flush) or you’re just trying to scare the other players into folding.

BLINDS

In Texas Hold’em, the ante consists of two blinds, the big blind and the small blind. These rotating antes will hit everyone eventually. The small blind is the first player to the left of the dealer, and the big blind is the next seat farther left. The big blind is double the amount of the small blind.

BLUFF

Probably the most exciting aspect of poker: the bluff. Very skilled poker players can hide their TELL, put on their best poker face, and drop a huge raise with a crap hand (i.e. a pair of 2s). If everyone folds, the bluff has succeeded. But be careful: someone may call your bluff. Use with caution.

COMMUNITY CARDS

Texas Hold’em is a community poker game, where players make their poker hands from 2 private cards (hole cards) and five community cards which are shared by all players. Community cards are dealt face up in turns: the flop, the turn, and the river, with rounds of betting before and after each turn. Players must make the best possible 5-card poker hand from the seven total cards.

DEALER BUTTON

The plastic disc used to indicate the dealer. The button is passed clockwise after every hand of Hold’em, which also advances the blinds. The dealer rotation maintains fairness at the table, as certain player positions have advantages over others. Players in a ‘late position’ have more information to make better decisions than players in an ‘early position.’ Player position runs clockwise from the dealer.

FLOP

The initial 3 cards dealt face up in the community card area (table center) in a game of Hold’em after the 1^st round of betting (pre-flop bets). The flop is followed by another round of betting and 2 more single-card deals (the TURN and the RIVER).

HOLE CARDS

The 2 private cards dealt face down to each player, which are combined with the community cards to make a poker hand. Players place their first bets based on these 2 cards. The hole is also called the pocket.

RIVER

The river is the 5^th card dealt in the community cards row in a Texas Hold’em match. It is the final card dealt in the round, and players win or lose after the final bets are in.

SHOWDOWN

After the final round of betting ends, players turn their cards face up to determine the winner. A showdown occurs if two or more players have called or gone all-in during the final betting round.

TELL

A physical ‘tick’ or other sign communicated in ‘body English’ that signals how strong or weak a player’s poker hand is. Pro players hide their own tells, while they can often read the tells of weaker players. A good example of a poker tell is the character Teddy ‘KGB’ in the poker-related film ‘Rounders.’ Whenever KGB (John Malkovich) splits an Oreo cookie and listens to it, he is bluffing; if he eats the cookie, he is about to wipe the table with you.

TURN

The 4^th community card dealt face-up in a game of Hold’em. It follows the initial 3-card deal (the flop), and signals a new round of bets.

Hold’em Slang for the Seasoned Player

If you’ve just scored a pair of fish hooks and are about to knock a fish back into the muck, you’re probably sitting at a table at the WSOP with some seasoned Hold’em players. Hold onto your hats, cowboys, we’re about to leave the dusty trail behind and dive deep into the territory of fish, sharks, and whales.

COWBOYS

Poker slang for pocket Kings, the 2^nd best starting hand in Hold’em.

DEAD MAN’S HAND

Some poker hands are legendary. They bear the name of the player who made them famous, and thus became forever etched in the poker lexicon. When Wild West legend and pro poker player Wild Bill Hickok was shot dead while playing a hand of poker, the cards found in the dead man’s hand consisted of two pairs: 8s and aces.

DOYLE BRUNSON HAND

The ‘Doyle Brunson’ is a starting hand of 10 and 2, made famous by the man himself. Against impossible odds, Brunson won the WSOP main event in 1976 with this seemingly weak hand, simply by a twist of fate (he got a full house from the turn and the river). In 1977, he won the main event again—with the exact same starting hand. Since then, the 10-2 hand is known as the Doyle Brunson.

Poker Slang Fish

FISH

A newbie or a weaker player at the poker table. But if you’re new to the game, don’t worry about the card sharks, they’re probably looking for bigger fish to fry (see WHALE).

FISH HOOKS

A nickname for 2 pocket jacks, one of the strongest starting hands in Hold’em.

GUTSHOT

Another term for an inside straight, which can only be completed by a single card in the middle of a series. If your hole cards were a 7 and 8, and the flop shows a 10 and a jack, only a 9 would complete your straight. You are half as likely to hit a gutshot as an outside straight, which completes your straight from either end (i.e. you had 7-8 and the flop shows 9-10; you then need a 6 or a jack instead of a 9).

Poker Slang Donk

MUCK

The stack of discarded cards in a round of poker. A player tosses his cards ‘into the muck’ when he folds.

NUTS

The best possible hand a player can have at any given moment. If you have 2 jacks in the hole, and the flop shows jack-8-3, your trip jacks would make the best possible hand. Congratulations, you have the “nuts!” However, if the turn and the river add 2 aces to the mix, anyone with an ace in the hole would beat your trip jacks with trip aces, giving them the nuts.

POCKET ROCKETS

A pair of aces in the hole (pocket), and the best possible starting hand in Hold’em.

ROCK

A ‘tight’ player who sits round after round without betting for the pot. When the rock suddenly enters with a big bet for the pot, they probably have a really good hand.

WHALE

Like a fish – only with a much bigger wallet. A player whose bankroll is much larger than their knowledge of the game of Hold’em. Card sharks love to swarm on whales and reduce them to bones.

Poker Slang Dictionary

WSOP

The World Series of Poker is the biggest poker tournament in the world and the poker mecca for professional and amateur poker players alike. The main event of the WSOP is a final round of no limit Texas Hold’em, with blinds of $100,000/$200,000 or more, and millions in prize money. In addition to fat wads of cash, winners go home with some serious poker bling: the coveted WSOP gold bracelet. 2019 marks the 50^th anniversary of the WSOP in its Las Vegas home.

So now you have a pretty good starting point to help you navigate the poker tables without a translator. Texas Hold’em may have started in the dusty back rooms of small Texas towns in the 1930s, but it has come a long way. From the early days of the first Hold’em matches held in Vegas at Binion’s Horseshoe to the main event of the WSOP (started by Mr. Binion himself), the rich vernacular of the poker player continues to grow.

Poker Slang Three Of A Kind

Just how many of these poker terms originated with the original Texas Road Gamblers (Doyle Brunson, Sailor Roberts, and Amarillo Slim) and how many were added later, we may never know.

Poker Slang Limp

But now you talk the talk. Do you walk the walk?