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Check out the following poker terms below to better familiarize yourself with the game of online poker. Poker terms may seem overwhelming at first, but given some time, learning poker terms is a piece of cake!
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A-C Player
The Advanced Concept Player. |
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A-game
The highest stake game in the house.
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Ace to Five
In a game played for low, ace to five means straights and flushes don't count and the ace can be used as a low card. The best possible hand in an Ace to Five game is therefore A2345 (often called a wheel).
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Aces Full
A full house with three aces and any pair. |
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Ace-High
A five card hand that contains one Ace, with no straight or flush. |
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Ace-Up
A hand that contains two pairs, one of which is Aces. |
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Action
(1) Opportunity to act. If a player appears not to realize it's his turn, the dealer will say "Your action, sir." (2) Bets and raises. "If a third heart hits the board and there's a lot of action, you have to assume that somebody has made the flush."
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Action Spot
The table area where the betting is occurring.
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Active Player
Any player who is still in the pot. |
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Add-on
Some tournaments allow players the opportunity at a certain point to buy additional chips, called an add-on. This is different from a re-buy, because usually anyone still in the tournament can add on, and the opportunity to add-on usually marks the end of the re-buy period.
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Add-them-up Lowball
Draw poker where the hand with the lowest point total wins.
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Advanced Concepts of Poker
The concepts used by the good poker player to win maximum money from opponents.
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Advanced-Concept Player
A player whose style is based on the Advanced Concepts of Poker. (A-C Player).
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Advertise
It usually means showing down a mediocre hand, to give the impression that you play overly loose or that you play a generally weak game. The idea is that other players will then give you more action when you make a legitimate hand. People are bad at revising first impressions, thus it is a long-lasting beneficial effect. More generally, advertising can mean anything you do at the poker table to manipulate how other players assess you.
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Age
First position to the left of the dealer (A, Able, or Edge).
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Agent
A confederate or collusion partner in cheating.
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Aggressive
A style of play characterized by frequent raising and re-raising. This is not the same thing as loose play. Many good players are selective about the cards they will play, but aggressive once they get involved in a hand. An aggressive table is one dominated by aggressive players.
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Ajax
The name of an Ace and Jack in the pocket, suited or otherwise. |
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All Blue, or All Pink
A flush. |
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All the Way
Cincinnati with a progressive bet. |
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All-In
To run out of chips while betting or calling. In table stakes games, a player may not go into his pocket for more money during a hand. If he runs out, a side pot is created in which he has no interest. However, he can still win the pot for which he had the chips. Example: "Poor Bob - he made quads against the big full house, but he was all-in on the second bet."
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Alligator Blood
A compliment given to an outstanding player who proves himself unflappable under great pressure.
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Alternate Straight
A sequence of every other card, such as two, four, six, eight, ten (Dutch Straight, Skipper, Skip Straight).
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Ambique
A French card game that influenced the draw variation of poker.
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American Airlines
Two Aces. |
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American Brag
A game where the raiser shows the first caller his hand and the worst hand folds.
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Anaconda
A seven-card game with bets made on five rolled-up cards. |
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Angle
An angle is any technically legal but ethically dubious way to increase your expectation at a game. Depending on who you ask, a particular weapon in your arsenal may be a sleazy underhanded trick (a typical angle) or a vital strategic tool that no player should be without. An example might be pretending to be about to fold (or even folding out of turn and then retrieving your cards, if the rules allow it), in order to encourage a call (when you are about to raise). A player who regularly takes advantage of angles is said to be an angle shooter.
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Angle-Shooting
Using unfair tactics.
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Announce
To declare high, low, or the moon in high-low poker.
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Announced Bet
A verbal bet made by a player before putting his money in the pot.
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Ante
A small portion of a bet contributed by each player to seed the pot at the beginning of a poker hand. Most hold'em games do not have an ante; they use "blinds" to get initial money into the pot. |
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Apple, the
The biggest game in the house.
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Arkansas Flush
A four flush.
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Around the Comer Straight
A sequence running from the highest to the lowest values, such as queen, king, ace, two, three.
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Assigned Bettor
The player who bets first.
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Australian Poker
Draw poker with a blind opening
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Automatic Bluff
A lowball situation that almost always requires Baby - A small card, usually a five or less.
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