Poker Terms Glossary

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ABC Player
An "ABC player" is someone very predictable. Such a player usually reads a few poker books follows them exactly. These players always play hands in the same manner and are pretty tight. Such players often win at lower stakes and loose games but are easy to take advantage of by more experienced players.

Ace High
A hand with no pairs and an Ace being the highest card. This hand beats all other hands with no high cards, and is a potential winner in a heads-up or a short game.

Action
Betting, raising, calling. A game with a lot of action whith lots of money changing hands. Such games should be sought after, because the more money moves, the more chances you have to win it.

Advertise
To play a certain way long enough that other people begin to think you always play that way, but when you play in your normal style, it will come as a surprise.

Aggressive
P layer who bets and raises a lot when he has a good hand.

Ajax
Starting hand in Hold'em: Ace-Jack (AJ).

All-In
To bet all your chips, or to call using all your chips. If another player bets more chips than you have in a "No Limit" game, you can go all-in and put your total stack against an equivalent amount of your opponent's stack.

Alligator Blood
A player who plays fearlessly when short-stacked and wins, or optionally, a player who plays for a long time short-stacked, winning just enough to keep him in the game.

American Airlines
Also called: Rockets, Pocket Rockets.
A hand with two Aces in the hole (AA).

Ante
A small number of chips placed into the pot before each hand. This acts as a "tax" for playing hands and is usually used in "Stud" games, whereas "Hold'em" games usually have blinds.

Aquarium
An aquarium is a poker room or game with lots of fish in it.

Axs
A poker term for Ace-X suited. It means to hold an Ace, plus a low card of the same suit. The other card is generally 9 or lower.

Bad Beat
A bad beat is a loss in which the losing player had better odds than the winning player earlier in the hand. To take a bad beat means to be on the losing end of a bad beat; to lay a bad beat means to be on the winning end of a bad beat. In general, the term is used when all the chips go in the pot when the losing player had odds.

Baskin Robbins
Hold'em starting hand Ace-Three

Beer Hand
Usually, a 2-7 offsuit, although some consider the 2-7 suited to also be a beer hand. Considered the worst stating hand in Hold 'em.

Belly Buster
I nside straight draw, synonym of gutshot.

Bet
To put chips into the pot. Other players must either Call your bet, Raise you, or Fold.

Bet the Pot
To bet an amount of chips similar to the amount of chips in the pot. In Pot Limit games, this is the maximum bet; however, the pot size in Pot-Limit games is calculated in this way - all the money in the pot, plus the amount you would bet if you reraised.

Bicycle
Poker hand A2345 - the lowest straight.

Big Blind
The larger of the two forced bets preflop. The person in a second position posts the big blind, which is equivalent to a small bet.

Big Slick
A hand with an Ace and a King in the hole (AK).

Bird on a Stick
Holdem Starting Hand 72.

Blackjack
Hold'em starting hand - Ace-Jack (AJ).

Blank
A card meaningless to anyone's hand. In a Hold'em game, if the board is As Ks Jd 8h, if a 3c came on the river, the 3c is considered a blank.

Blinds
These are the forced bets that taking the place of an ante. The person to the left of the dealer must pay the small blind, while the person after him pays the big blind.

Bluff
To bluff means to make a bet hoping not to be called by your opponents. Bluff's aim is to win a pot because everyone else folds.

Board Cards
The cards in the middle of the table shared by everyone.

Boat
A Full House.

Bottom Pair
A Pair having the lowest card on the Flop and one of your hole cards.

Break
Betting a strong hand very forcefully in order to win a huge pot.

Broadway
A straight from ten to ace. The best possible straight.

Buckets
A pocket pair of fours.

Bullets
Pocket Aces.

Burn
1.To place a card down prior to dealing the flop,turn and river.

2. (Verb) - To burn a Card.

The card that is placed down is termed the 'burned/burnt card'.

Button
At most casinos, the players themselves do not deal the cards. Therefore, a button is used to indicate who is in the dealer's seat. Except in the preflop round, the player who is on the button acts last in a round of betting.

Call
To place an amount of chips in the pot equal to the previous bet. It is necessary to at least call a bet to stay in the game; the other options are to raise or fold.

Calling Station
Type of player who will call a lot. They do not think about other people's hands, but rather just want to see if their hand will win. They do not bluff much and are not aggressive; they just call a lot.

Candy Canes
Another term for pocket sevens in Texas Hold'em.

Canine
The hold'em starting hand King-Nine (K9).

Cap
In Limit, to make the maximum amount of raises allowed in a betting round. A common cap seen in internet games is 4 bets per round (in other words, one bet and three raises).

Case
The case (x) refers to the last card available of that rank in the deck. For example, if I hold pocket tens and the board is TAA4 and a ten comes on the river, that final card is considered the case ten.

Chase
To call in the hopes of hitting a draw. This word often connotes that someone is a calling station and will call even with bad odds.

Check
To not put any chips into the pot, to decline to bet. If it is your turn to act, and there is no bet to you, you may check instead of betting. However, if there is a bet to you, then you must raise or fold.

Check-Raise
To check with the intention of raising your opponent's bet. This is a technique used to get more money into the pot (two bets instead of one), and is more effective at Limit Poker than at No Limit

Chop
A chop essentially means to split the pot. It can be used in two situations:

1. If everyone folds to the blinds, the blinds may elect to have the blind money returned to them and proceed to the next hand.

2. A chop can refer to just splitting the pot between the players. Either the players hands are tied or the players agree to simply split the pot in half instead of seeing whose hand wins (this occurs rarely and only if the pot is very large and the players hands are of almost equivalent value).

Cold Call

This means to call a bet and a raise. An example would be if it is preflop and you are in late position, a person in earlier position raises the blinds and you call two bets flat.

Cold Cards
A player who is receiving cold cards is usually an experienced rounder who is having bad luck due to a long running string of bad cards. A similar example is a writer who is experiencing "writers block".

Collusion
Collusion is a form of cheating. Players will work in a team to try to gain an advantage over the other players. They will somehow signal to each other what their cards are. They will then use this information to gain an unfair advantage. Collusion is illegal. It is sometimes hard for brick and mortar cardrooms to detect colluders, but online poker rooms can track potential colluders becasue they can review hand histories.

Community Cards
Also known as: Board Cards.

Computer Hand
A starting hand that, on average, is the median of all other hands. Q 7

Connected
When your hole cards are consecutive, (89, 45, etc. When someone is suited and connected they are holding consecutive cards of the same suit, (QsJs, 2d3d)

Counterfeit
Sometimes a card will come on the board that will hurt your hand because it makes previously valuable cards in your hand communal property. For example, suppose you hold A9 in a game of Texas Hold'em. The board is 5678. You hold a straight to the 9! However, if the final card on the river comes a 9, your hand is counterfeited. Now, everyone has a straight to the nine. Being counterfeited occurs a lot in Omaha Hi-Lo. Many times people's lows are counterfeited by the board. Suppose you hold AAK2. The board is 367Q. You hold the nut low (A2367). However, if the river comes a 2, you no longer hold the nut low. Your low is A2367 still. However, someone with A4 in their hand will have you beat with a low of A2346.

Cowboys
Reference to holding pocket kings (KK) as a starting hand in Texas Hold'em.

Crabs
To get dealt pocket 3's.

Dead Man's Hand

1. Holding two pair of aces and eights. Legendary lawman and gambler Wild Bill Hickok was shot to death while holding this hand.

2. (Less common) A hand in Texas Hold 'Em consisting of a 2 7 offsuit. This is considered the worst hand in Texas Hold 'Em.

Dead Money
An inexperienced player who has virtually no shot at winning a tournament. Their chips are said to be "dead money."

Dime
Gambler slang for $1,000.

Dollar
A dollar is gambling slang for a $100 bet.

Dominated
In Hold'em, a hand that is similar to another hand but has a lower kicker. For example, AQ dominates A8 because even if an ace come, AQ still has a better hand. To win, the person with A8 would need to hit an 8 without the other player hitting a queen or would need to hit a weird straight or flush. Someone whose hand is dominated has few outs and thus little chance to win.

Door Card
This is a player's first exposed 'up' card in seven card stud.

Down Card
Also known as: Hole Card.

Doyle Brunson
The Hold'em Starting Hand Ten-Two (T2). Doyle Brunson won the WSOP two years in a row with this hand.

Draw
Drawing means hoping to improve your hand with the cards that will come on the board. You are on a draw when you want other cards to come out on the board to complete your hand. If you have 10 9 and the flop is QJ2, you are trying to draw an eight or a king on the turn or river.

Drawing Dead
Drawing to a hand that will lose even if you hit your draw. For example, if you have a flush draw but your opponent already has a full house, you are drawing dead.

Drawout
Also known as: Bad Beat.
When someone hits a draw against you to win the hand.

Ducks
Also known as: "deuces".
A pocket pair of two's, also known as deuces.

Family Pot
Also known as: Multi-way Pot.
When more than three players are contending for a pot, the pot is often considered a family pot. These pots often occur when there are many fish at the table, and the game is very loose.

Fifth Street
Also known as the river

Fish
A fish is a bad player, who often loses a lot of money.

Five of a Kind
A poker hand consisting of five cards of the same rank. This is only possible when playing with wild cards.

Fixed-Limit
Fixed-Limit is another way to say Limit Poker. There are set bets. For example, in a $3-$6 game, the bets and raises preflop and on the flop are $3 each, and the bets and raises on the river are $6 each.

Flop
The first three board cards in Holdem.

Flush
A poker hand consisting of 5 cards of the same suit.

Fold
To not match the bet in the pot and to thus forfeit the hand. The player throws the hand into the muck and is out of the hand. You should fold when you think you will lose the hand.

Four of a Kind
A poker hand consisting of four cards of the same rank and one other card.

Fourth Street
Also known as the turn

Full Boat
Also known as: Full House, Boat.

Full Employment
The starting hand Jack 4. Named full employment because if you play Jack 4 you'll always have a day job.

Full Hous
A poker hand consisting of a three-of-a-kind and a pair.

Ghost Dog
Hole cards of 4 7, suited or not.

Grinder
A grinder is the same as a rounder. These tend to be semi-professional players that make most of their money playing poker, though they do not make much money. A grinder plays in a similar fashion as a rock. Often, these players can beat lower and mid-stakes games but can not beat or make much money at the higher stakes games.

Gutshot
An inside straight draw. An example of a gutshot (also known as belly buster) is to have 89JQ, aiming to hit a ten.

High Card
High Card means to hold a poker hand that does not contain anything special. Someone does not hold any paired cards, a straight, or a flush. Thus, their poker hand is simply referred to their highest ranking card. A person with AKJ75 would have a high card ace, while the rest of the cards are kickers.

High Society
Gambler slang for $10,000.00 in chips

Hilton Sisters
To be dealt two queens at the beginning of a hand (Q,Q)

Hole Card
A card which is dealt to the player face down so that no other player can see it.

Hooks
A Pair of Jacks

Idiot End
This refers to drawing to the lower end of a straight. For example, if you hold a 45 and the flop is 679, you are drawing to a very low straight. If you hit an 8, someone with even just a ten will beat you. Often, fish lose a lot more money than they should when they draw to the idiot end of a straight.

Implied Odds
The same as pot odds except it takes into account making bets in the future. Thus, you may call a bet at the flop, but have implied odds of making bigger bets on later rounds if you hit your draw. So, if you have AK of diamonds and the flop comes two diamonds, your implied odds are what you have to call at the flop compared to how large the pot will be at the end of the hand.

Jackson Five
Starting hand of a Jack and a Five

Jacquese
The Texas Hold 'Em starting hand of Jack Queen.

Johnny Moss
The hold'em starting hand Ace-Ten. Named after the famous poker player.

Kamikaze
a) A person who is so on tilt that they are literally throwing away their money with no regard.

b) The hold'em starting hand KK

Kicker
A kicker is the highest card that is unrelated to the type of poker hand one has. For example, someone with the hand AKKQ54 has a pair of kings with an ace kicker.

Kickers are used to break ties. For example, if someone else had KKJ65, that person would have a pair of kings with jack kicker. The person with a pair of kings with ace kicker would beat the person with a jack kicker.

If two people have the same type of hand with the same type of kicker, the next highest kicker is used. For example, in a matchup between AKKJ5 versus AKKJ4, the person with AKKJ5 would win.
Kill
Kill is when person who wins two pots in a row must post big blind as well.

Kojak
The Hold'em starting hand King-Jack (KJ)

Ladies
The Hold'em starting hand with two queens (QQ).

Lady
Reference to a queen. A pair of queens is often referred to as 'ladies.'

Limit Poker
Poker with fixed bets. In a $2-4 limit game, all bets and raises are two dollars in the first two rounds (preflop and flop), and all bets and raises are four dollars in the last two rounds (turn and river).

Limp
In To only call the big blind.

Limp Raise
To make a small raise preflop. Usually used when you have a very strong hand like AA and wish to provoke a reraise.

Little Slick
The hold'em starting hand ace-queen (AQ).

Live One
A fish who will call and raise a lot. A live one is a bad player who is either a calling station or a maniac. They play almost all of their hands and enjoy seeing showdowns.

Longhand
This refers to a poker game with seven or more people.

Loose
Someone who plays a lot of hands. A loose player is often either a maniac or a calling station.
Mechanic
A cheater who uses sleight-of-hand to arrange the deck or deal benefit himself or a partner.

Mid-Life Crisis
Pocket 4s (44)

Motown
J ack and fives

Muck
1. (n.) The area on the table where all of the dead cards are placed. Any hand that was folded and all burned cards are placed in the muck.

2. (v.) To throw your hand away into the muck. This term is often used when another hand is shown at the showdown that beats your hand. It can also mean to fold one's hand.

Near Nuts
Almost the best hand possible, but there is one or more very unlikely hands that could beat it. For example, if you have AA, and the board is AKK93, you have the near nuts, because someone else may have 4-of-a-kind kings.
See also: Nuts.

Nickel
Gambler slang for $500.

Nit
A nit is a tight-passive player that avoids confrontations. Typically, the term nit is used when this type of passive player plays in a pot-limit or no-limit game. Nits tend to avoid big pots and do not like to gamble.

NL
No-Limit

No Limit
A betting structure in which there is no maximum bet. Players may bet as much as they want at any time.

Nuts
The best possible hand that is a guaranteed winner.

Offsuit
A Hold'em starting hand with two cards of different suits. These hands are weaker than suited hands because of fewer flush possibilities. Offsuit hands are sometimes denoted by an 'o'; for example, 64o is pronounced "six-four offsuit" and refers to a hand with a six and a four of different suits.

Oldsmobile
The hold'em starting hand nine-eight (98).

Outs
Cards that can improve your hand. If the flop is QJ2 and you have 10 9, you want a king or an eight to complete your straight. There are 4 kings and 4 eights in the deck, so you have 8 total outs.

Overbet the Pot
In a No Limit game, to make a bet that is larger than the size of the pot.

Overpair
An overpair is a pocket pair that is higher than any card on the board. For example, if you hold pocket kings and the flop is Q97, you hold an overpair.

Pair
A pair is two cards of the same rank. For example, holding the hand AAK54 would be referred to as holding a pair of aces.

Passive
Someone who does not bet and raise a lot. Someone who is passive is either a rock or a calling station, depending on how much they call with bad hands.

PL
Pot-Limit

Play Money
This refers to playing a poker game where the chips do not represent real money. Nothing of any value is won or lost in this type of game, so it is not considered gambling. All major online poker rooms have play money games.

Playing the Board
In hold'em, player uses only the cards on the board and none of his/her hole cards.

PLO
Pot Limit Omaha.

Pocket Pair
In Hold'em, having two hole cards of the same rank. In other words, having a pair face down.

Pocket Rockets
The Hold'em Starting Hand AA.

Poker Hand
A group of five cards which are ranked according to the hand rankings:

Five of a Kind (when playing with wilds)
Straight Flush
Four of a Kind
Full House
Flush
Straight
Three of a Kind
Two Pair
Pair
High Card
See also: Holdem Starting Hand.

Position
Where you sit at the poker table. The dealer has the best position because he bets last and therefore has a better understanding of what other people have in their hand. The small blind has the worst position because he goes first.

Pot Limit
A betting structure in which the maximum size bet is the size of the pot. However, the pot size is calculated in an unintuitive way: All the money in the pot, plus (if you have been raised) the amount you would bet if you reraised.

Pot Odds
This is the odds you are getting when you are drawing, without considering future bets. Basically, if you are drawing to hit your hand, you want to make sure there is enough money in the pot to justify drawing. The way you do this is you calculate your expected value of hitting your hand, which is called pot odds.

The simple mathematical formula for pot odds is:

(pot + bet) * (chance of hitting) >= bet

For example, say you have a flush draw of diamonds. You are fairly certain you will win if you hit the flush but will lose otherwise. Thus, there are 9 other diamonds out there (13 - your two, - two on board), so you have a roughly 18% chance of hitting a flush on the next card. If the pot is 90, and the bet is 10, you have odds with your flush draw.

(90 +10) *.18= 18
18>10, so you should call

However, lets say the pot is 10, you're at the turn (one card left) and your opponent bets 40.

(10 + 40) *.18= 9
9 < 40, so you should fold.

Preflop
The stage of a hold'em game when you have two cards in your hand and there are no cards on the board yet.

Prop
Prop is short for proposition player. This is someone who is paid by the house to play poker. However, the player plays with his own money; the house merely pays him or her an hourly wage to play poker in order to keep the games going. The difference between a prop and a shill is that a shill plays poker with the house money. Props are generally considered okay and a decent way to earn a few extra dollars. However, shills are looked down upon, and it is unheard of for a casino to employ shills.

Quads
Quads means four of a kind, holding four cards of the same rank.

Rabbit Hunt
When a player wins a pot without a showdown, some players want to know if they would have won had they stayed in the hand longer. To "rabit hunt" means to ask the dealer to expose what cards would have come if the player decided to play his hand. Generally, these players want to see if they would have hit their straight, flush,etc. Rabbit hunting is frowned upon when playing poker.

Rags
Useless cards or cards that don't improve your hand. Generally these are cards whose ranks are between 2-9.

Railbird
A railbird is someone who watches poker games. They get their name because generally observers of poker games must stand behind a rail. Sometimes, railbirds are poker players who are broke and want to get back into the action.

Rainbow
This describes a board that is comprised entirely of different suits. For example, a flop of Ace of clubs, King of hearts, and 5 of diamonds could be described as AK5 rainbow.

Raise
To make a bet larger than the previous bet, thus forcing the original bettor to call the difference or fold.

Rake
This is the fee the poker rooms charge players. Most often, it is a percentage of the pot. For example, many poker rooms will take 5% of the pot up to $3 as a fee for hosting the game. Many times, brick and mortar casinos will simply charge players a set fee per half hour in replace of the rake. When considering a poker game to play, keep in mind how much the rake will cost you. Often, the rake may be so high in relation to the limit played that it is impossible to win money at the game in the long run.

Rank
The number or letter on the card. The highest rank is Ace, and the lowest rank is 2. However, the Ace can usually be used as a "1" in a straight. The ranks are sometimes abbreviated as follows:

A - Ace
K - King
Q - Queen
J - Jack
T - Ten
9 - Nine
8 - Eight
2 - Two

River
This is the fifth and final card that comes on the board in Holdem, after the turn.

Rock
This is a nickname for a type of player who will fold a lot. These types of players generally break even. They fold most of their losers, but will not aggressively bet their winners and will thus not make much money. They are also easily bullied out of pots.

Rockets
Reference to holding pocket aces (AA) as a starting hand in Texas Hold'em.

Rounder
A rounder is synonymous with a grinder. These are players who make their living or a significant amount of their income from playing poker. They tend to play mid or low stakes games and win money bit by bit. Rounding is often considered to be a difficult way to make money because rounders tend to not make much money per hour.

Route 66
Pocket sixes.

Royal Flush
The poker hand consisting of AKQJT of the same suit. The royal flush is the highest possible Straight Flush.

Sailboats
Pocket 4s

Sandbagging
Sandbagging is another term for slowplaying. It means to either check or bet weakly when you have a strong hand.

Sandbagging also can be a synonym for check-raising.

Sausage
A player who plays with no sense.

Sell
Betting a very strong hand fairly lightly in order to induce a call. Often, this method is used to milk a calling station out of money, bit by bit.
See also: calling station, Break.

Semi-Bluff
A semi-bluff is when a player makes a bet with a hand that is currently weak but has the potential to become a very strong hand. A common example is when someone has a flush draw and makes a bet into the pot. The bettor hopes that the other players will fold, and he wil win the pot right there. However, even if the other players do not fold, he still has a good chance at improving and winning the pot anyway.

Set
Also known as: Trips, Thee of a Kind.
A set means a three of a kind. Generally, people refer to a set when someone has a three of a kind because they have a pocket pair, with a board matching that rank of the pocket pair in hold'em. For example, if I hold 77 and the flop comes J76, I flopped a set of sevens.

Shark
A shark is a good player and typically wins. A shark's goal is often to simply just win money at poker, so they seek out games with a lot of fish. Basically, in the poker ecosystem, sharks feed on fish.

Shill
A shill is a poker player who is paid by the house and plays with the house money. He or she essentially tries to win money for the house at the poker game. Employing shills is considered immoral and is sometimes illegal. No poker players want to play at a casino that uses shills because they are afraid the games are not fair. Because of this, it is a very rare occurence for a casino to use shills.

A shill is very different from a prop. Props are players that play poker with their own money. The only difference between a prop and a regular player is that a prop is paid hourly by the house in order to keep games going. Props will generally be forced to play at shorthanded tables or more unpopular games in order to earn their hourly stipend.

Shorthand
This refers to a poker game with six or fewer people.

Sidepot
In a multi-way pot, a sidepot is created for other players if one player goes all-in. These other players bets and raises will go to the sidepot, and only the players that participated in the sidepot are eligible to win it.

Siegfried and Roy
Pocket Queens.

Slowplay
Slowplaying is a deceptive move. It is the opposite of bluffing. It means to check or bet weakly when one holds a strong hand. The point of the slowplay is so the competition builds a hand that will become the second best hand. Then, when the competition builds this hand, one will jam the pot with bets.

For example, suppose you hold 99 and the flop comes 994. You flopped quads! However, there is little chance you would be called at this point. A good idea is to slowplay and wait for the turn or river cards to come before you start firing. Then you can bet strongly because hopefully the competition will have some sort of hand that merits them calling you down.

Small Blind The smaller of the two forced bets preflop. The person in first position posts the small blind, which is equivalent to half of a small bet.

Snowmen
The hold'em starting hand of apair of eights.

Speed Limit
The Hold'em starting hand with two fives (55). Or, a pair of fives.

Split
The starting hand of 7 10.

Stack
Stack can be a noun or a verb.

(n) The amount of chips you have in front of you. The stack is how much money you have in a poker game.

(v) To go all-in. To stack means to bet your whole stack. For example, "he bet and then I stacked. He called and doubled me up."

Stone Cold Nuts
The best holding possible in a hand of poker that will win the entire pot (as opposed to possibly winning only half or some fraction). Such an example would be holding a suited ace and making a flush with it on an unpaired board in Hold'Em. This is in contrast to holding an ace high straight, which even though it may not possibly be beaten, could end up in a tie with another one.

Stone Nuts
Used to emphasize that a hand is not just the near nuts but is the absolute best hand.

Straddle
A straddle is a blind bet made by the person under the gun. A straddle bet is equivalent to two big blinds. The person who posts the straddle gets to bet last in the preflop round. A straddle is very ill-advised in a limit game because you are unnecessarily posting a large blind bet out of position. Straddles are more common for games such as pot limit Omaha, where the straddle acts to increase the stakes of the game.

Straight
A poker hand consisting of 5 cards whose ranks form a sequence. The highest possible straight is AKQJT (Broadway) and the lowest straight is 54321 (the wheel).
See also: Straight Flush.

Straight Flush
A poker hand consisting of 5 cards of the same suit whose ranks form a sequence. Thus, a straight flush is both a Straight and a Flush. The highest possible straight flush is AKQJT of the same suit (also called the Royal Flush). The lowest possible straight flush is 5432A of the same suit.

String
Bet In a live game, someone does a string bet if they act like they are going to call but then make a raise. For example, it is standard etiquette that putting the requisite chips for a call into the pot just means a call. If one wants to raise, he or she needs to announce raise before placing chips into the pot. They cannot say 'I call your bet...and raise you 'x.' They must say "I raise." String bets confuse players as to whether the player is calling or raising, so they are not allowed.

Sucker Straight
This refers to drawing to the lower end of a straight. One can hit this type of straight but still have a high probability of losing.

Suckout
See Drawout. It means someone hit a draw against you to win the hand.

Suit
Spades, hearts, diamonds, or clubs. Suit is important for determining a flush, but has no other meaning in most poker games. The suits are sometimes abbreviated as follows:

s - spades
h - hearts
d - diamonds
c - clubs

Therefore, AKh would mean Ace and King of hearts. However, sometimes the s only means suited. This usually is made clear by context.

Suited
Referring to a Hold'em starting hand with two cards of the same suit. Suited hands are better than unsuited hands because of flush possibilities. A suited hand is sometimes denoted by an 's'; for example, 98s is pronounced "Nine-eight suited" and refers to a 9 and an 8 of the same suit.

Sunset Strip
Pocket sevens. Also known as walking sticks

Table Stakes
All poker games are played table stakes. This means one can only bet what one has in front of him on the table on any given hand. Players cannot reach into their pockets and add to their bets. If a player runs out of chips in front of him in the middle of a hand, he or she is considered all-in.

Tap
To "tap" someone is to bet enough money for them to go all in in a No limit game.

Tapping the Aquarium
To tell a poor player what he's doing wrong, i.e., waking up a [fish].

Three of a Kind
A poker hand consisting of three cards of the same rank, and two unpaired cards.

Three Wise Men
A hand in Texas Hold 'Em that consists of three Kings.

Tight
Someone who does not play many hands. The opposite of loose.

Tilt
A player goes on tilt when his or her emotions take over. A player on tilt no longer plays rationally and instead plays like a maniac. Often, the player just suffered a bad beat and is very upset. A player on tilt often loses a lot of money, so going on tilt needs to be avoided. However, even the best players can go on tilt at times.

Time Pot
This is a form of rake. For poker rooms that charge players a fee per half-hour or hour, they will allow the players to have that money taken out of two or three pots. Since the 'time' money is taken out of these pots, they are called time pots. These are pots that exceed a certain threshold (they are typically $200 or more).

Trepasso
To get delt A,J

Trips
Trips means three of a kind, holding three cards of the same rank.

Turn
This is the fourth board card that comes out in holdem, the card after the flop.

Two Pair
Two pair is exactly as it sounds- holding two pairs. Please note that it is impossible to hold a "three pair." Poker hands only consist of five cards. Even if one is playing a poker game where more than five cards are in consideration (such as Texas hold'em or 7 card stud), you only use your best 5 card poker hand.

Under the Gun
The position to the left of the big blind which acts first before board cards are dealt.

Underpair
An underpair is a pocket pair that is smaller than any card on the board. For example, if you hold pocket fours and the board is 89Q, you hold an underpair.

Unsuited
Also known as: Offsuit.

Upcard
A card that is dealt to the player face up, so that all players may see it. Upcards are used in Stud games.

UTG
UTG is short for under the gun.

Walking Sticks
To be dealt two sevens at the beginning of a hand (7,7)

Wayne Gretzky
To be dealt two nines at the beginning of a hand (9,9)

Wheel
A wheel is the poker hand A2345, the lowest possible straight.

Wild Card
A card, such as a joker or a designated rank, that can be assigned any rank and suit.

Wired Pair
A Pair in your starting hand.

Woolworth's
The starting hand of 5 10.