Glossary

Ace High – A hand with no pairs and ace as the highest card

Ace rag - A hand made
out of two hole cards , an ace and a card lower then a ten

Aggressive – A playing style that involves mostly betting
and folding in opposed to calling

All in – When a player has no more chips to wager he is
considered all in

Bad beat – Losing a hand after being ahead when most of the
money was bet and called

Back door flush – Hitting consecutive cards of a certain suite
on the turn and river to complete a flush

Big blind – The bigger forced bet, poster by the player two
to the left of the dealer button

Bluff – Betting a weaker hand with hopes of making the
winning hand forfeit the pot

Board- The five community cards make up the “board”

Buy-in (Cash game) – The amount of initial money required
for playing at a table

Buy-in(Tournament) – The cost of participation in a
tournament + house fee

Bet – To place a wager

Call – to equal the bet made by a previous player

Check – To pass on the opportunity to place a bet

Cash out – To redeem your chip value back into cash money

Connected cards – two subsequent cards ( i.e. 7-6 , J-T etc)

Donkey – A weak and losing poker player

Deuce – another name from the digit 2

Draw – To try and improve your currently inferior hand

Drawing dead – when no card in the deck will make your hand
the winner of a showdown

EV – Expected value , The average return on each action a
poker player makes is his expected value, a positive expected value translates
into winnings and a negative one into losses

Fold equity – The odds of your opponent folding his hand

Free card – A move most common in limit hold’em where a
raise with position on the flop allows for a free turn card for the drawing
hand

Free roll – A tournament with no entry fee but cash prizes

Gutshot – A straight draw with only one potential completing
card

Grinder – A solid player trying to make solid profit

Hand – The best 5 card combination of the seven available
make a players hand

Hand range – the range of hands a player might play in a
certain manner (as opposed to assigning a certain hand to your opponent)

Heads up – facing a single opponent

Hole cards – The two face down cards dealt in the beginning
of every hand to all participating players

Implied odds – To Include the money that will go into the
pot on future bets into the current calculation

Induce a bluff – Tempting an opponent into betting a weaker
hand

ITM – short for “in the money” as in cashing in a tournament

Kicker – The unpaired card used to decide the winner in case
of two equally paired hands

Often the difference between winning ad losing