[DrPhysic]

Lucy & Ricky
KQ

Lumber yard
K8

Lumberman's hand
24

Machine gun
AK47

Mad Genius of Poker
Mike Caro

Magnum
44

Main pot
When there is a side pot, that part of the pot all of the players have action in.

Make
To complete a hand that has a shot at winning the pot.

Maniac
Nickname for a player that is loose-aggressive. See Animal.

Marry
To become too attached to a hand, usually seeing a showdown when it was clear that you should have folded earlier.

Maverick
QJ

Meh
like "eh"... not so great, but not terrible. Meant to display some level of indifference. Helps if you speak Yiddish.

MHIG
My hand is good.

MHING
My hand is no good.

Mid life crisis
44

Middle pair
If there are three cards of different ranks on the flop in hold'em, and you pair the middle one, you have middle pair.

Miscall
An incorrect verbal declaration of the ranking of a hand.

Misdeal
A mistake on the dealing of a hand which causes the cards to be reshuffled and a new hand to be dealt.

Miss
When the board cards are not helpful to your hand.

Missed blind
A required bet that is not posted when it is your turn to do so.

ML
Middle limit game.

MM
Mason Malmuth.

Mongrel
K9o

Monotone
A flop of all the same suit.

Monster
A superior hand that is unlikely to lose.

Montana banana
92

Mop squeezers
QQ

Moran
Moron

Mossback
Rock

Motown
J5

MP
Middle position.

MS
Mohegan Sun.

MTT
Multi table tournament.

Muck
The discard pile, the act of discarding your cards.

Multiway
Involving more than two players.

N/T
No text in post (just text in the subject).

NH
Nice hand.
New Hampshire.

NL
No limit.

Noah's ark
Four Pair (Omaha).

NSFW
Not safe for work

Nut
The best possible type of hand, such as “nut flush” or “nut straight”; this is not necessarily the absolute nuts.

Nut low
In any high-low game with community cards, the lowest possible hand based on the cards showing.

Nut-nut
In any high-low game, having both the best possible low and high.

Nuts
The best possible hand, based on the board cards. Sometimes called the absolute nuts.

o
Offsuited - AKo would be Ace & King of different suits.

O8
Omaha Hi-Lo - specifically low hand must be "8 or better".

Odds
A ratio of two probabilities, usually the probability of making a hand to the probability of not making the hand.

Oedipus
JQ

OESD
Open ended straight draw.

OESFD
Open ended straight flush draw

Offsuit
Cards that are not of the same suit.

Oldsmobile
98

Omaha
Omaha is a flop game similar to hold'em, but with two key differences. First, each player is dealt four cards instead of just two. Second, a hand must be made using exactly two pocket cards (out of those four) and three from the table.

Omaha8
The term "Omaha8" is simply shorthand for omaha high-low split, with an 8 or better qualifier for low.

OMFG
Oh! My goodness!

One Gap
Describing hold 'em starting cards in which the two cards are two apart in rank, as Ks Js.

One Gapper
Inside Straight

One table satellite
A special satellite tournament, consisting of one table of players, whose prize is usually a buy-in for a larger tournament.

One way action
When you and only one other player are involved in a pot.

On the come
Describing a bet made on an unmade hand before all the cards have been dealt in the anticipation of making a hand.

On the rail
Busted, that is, out of action, being forced to watch the games from the rail.
A spectator in a game is “on the rail.”

On tilt
Playing recklessly, usually as a result of a bad beat (real or perceived). Also known as steaming.

OOP
Out of position.

OOT
Other Other Topics Forum on 2+2.

OOTM
Out of the money.

OP
Original post or original poster.

Open raise
Raising as the first one in the pot preflop (rather than simply calling the bet).

Opener
The player who made the first voluntary bet.

Opener button
A button used to indicate who opened a particular pot in a draw game.

Openers
In jacks-or-better draw, the cards held by the player who opens the pot that show the hand qualifies to be opened. Example: You are first to bet and have a pair of kings; the kings are called your openers.

OPP
Opponent.

Option
The choice given to the player in the big blind, allowing them to call or raise.

Orbit
One complete rotation around the table.

OT
Off topic.

OTOH
On the other hand.

Out
An out is a card that will improve your hand, usually one that you think will make it a winner.

Outdraw
To make a better hand than an opponent by merit of the cards you draw.

Outkicked
To lose to another hand with a better kicker than yours.

Outrun
To beat a hand that you were losing to on an earlier street.

Outs
Cards remaining in the deck that will help improve a hand to win a pot.

Over and out
T4

Overbet
Raise amount larger than the current pot.

Overblind
Also called oversize blind. A blind used in some pots that is bigger than the regular big blind, and usually increases the stakes proportionally.

Overcall
Calling a bet after at least one other person has already called.

Overcard
A pocket card that is higher than the highest board card.
A card among the community cards higher than a player's pair.

Overlay
When a pot or prize pool offers greater payouts, and consequently odds, than those that would be created by just the active players in the hand or game. Examples of things that create overlays are dead money or guaranteed prize funds.

Overpair
A pocket pair that is higher than the highest board card.

OWA's
One word answers.

Pace
The speed of a game, with respect to its action. Fast pace describes a game with a lot of betting and raising, performed by most of the players; slow pace describes a game without much betting and raising.

Pacheco nuts
86o

Paint
Face card.

Pair
Two cards of the same rank.

Pair of wire cutters (Dikes)
QQ

Party
Party Poker

Pass
Check

Passive
Passive is a style of play that is characterized by reluctance to bet and raise.

Pat
In draw poker, a hand that is dealt in which the player needs to draw no cards.

Pat hand
In draw poker, a hand that is dealt in which the player needs to draw no cards.

Pattern Mapping
There is no such thing as Pattern Mapping. Once upon a time there was a joke thread that went a little out of control. It became a standing joke in these forums, although some people still believe it to be true. There was no intentional hoax, things just happened and an urban legend was born.

Pay off
To call a river bet when the prior action leads you to believe that you are beat, but the pot is big enough to make the call reasonable.

Peanut butter & jelly
Q6o

Pedigree
K9

Peel one off
Deciding to see the turn or river when the odds don’t quite justify a call.

Percentage player
Someone who plays--that is calls, bets or raises only when she thinks she has the best of it on that wager.

Percy
69o

Perfect
When you only have one way to make a hand, you need perfect cards. Usually this means two cards.

Perp
One who dishes out a bad beat (as in "perpetrator").

PF
Pre flop.

PFR
Pre flop raise.
Pre flop raiser.
Pre flop raise pct (PT).

Phil Hellmuth
99

Pickle man
57

Picture
Face card.

Pineapple
Any of a number of variants of hold'em in which each player gets three cards and must discard one at some point (usually before or after pre-flop betting, after the flop, or after the second round of betting).

Pinochle
QsJd

PL
Pot limit

Plagiarism
What one does to arrive at a comprehensive dictionary of online poker terms and abbreviations.

Play back (at)
To play back at someone is to raise their opening bet.

Play the board
In hold 'em, use all of the board (community) cards to determine one's best hand. When this happens, if no active player can use one or both of his or her dealt cards to form a better hand than that of the five board cards, the pot is split among all active players.

PLO8
Pot limit Omaha 8 or better high/low.

PLZ
Please.

Pochen
An early German card game having some of the features of poker. (Pochen means to boast of, which could be construed as to bluff.) Also, poch, poche.

Pocket
Your unique cards that are hidden from everyone else. Also known as hole.

Pocket Pair
A pair as one's first two cards down cards in hold-em or stud.

Pocket rockets
AA

Poker
A card game based on the language of deception, a language expressed in words represented by bets; a card game among two or (usually) more players, in which each player makes one or more wagers that his five-card (sometimes fewer) hand ranks higher than those of all the others, or that he can convince the others to retire from contention because they believe his hand ranks the highest.

Poker god
A mythical deity to whom poker players supposedly pray for good hands, often presumed to be female.

Poker History
The history of poker is a matter of some debate. The name of the game likely descended from the French poque, which descended from the German pochen ('to knock'), but it is not clear whether the origins of poker itself lie with the games bearing those names. It closely resembles the Persian game of as nas, and may have been taught to French settlers in New Orleans by Persian sailors. It is commonly regarded as sharing ancestry with the Renaissance game of primero and the French brelan. The English game brag (earlier bragg) clearly descended from brelan and incorporated bluffing (though the concept was known in other games by that time). It is quite possible that all of these earlier games influenced the development of poker as it exists now.
English actor Joseph Crowell reported that the game was played in New Orleans in 1829, with a deck of 20 cards, four players betting on which player's hand was the most valuable. Jonathan H. Green's book, An Exposure of the Arts and Miseries of Gambling (G. B. Zieber, Philadelphia, 1843), described the spread of the game from there to the rest of the country by Mississippi riverboats, on which gambling was a common pastime.
Soon after this spread, the full 52-card English deck was used, and the flush was introduced. During the American Civil War, many additions were made, including draw poker, stud poker (the five-card variant), and the straight. Further American developments followed, such as the wild card (around 1875), lowball and split-pot poker (around 1900), and community card poker games (around 1925).
Polish big slick
23

Pop
To bet or raise.

POP
Psychology of Poker, Dr. Alan N. Schoonmaker.

Position
Position refers to your place at the table, especially representing the order of betting.

Position bet
A position bet is a bet made more on the strength of one's position than on the strength of one's hand.

Positive Expectation
The situation in which a particular bet, in the long run, has an overall average profit. A wager can lose more times than it wins and still have a positive expectation; this is because in the long run the amount of money won on the times it wins is greater than the amount lost on the times it loses.

Posse
KKKK

Post
To pay the blind(s) when not in the big blind position, often done when first sitting at a table or when you sat out and missed your turn to pay the blinds.

Post mortem
An exhaustive discussion after a hand is over about the play of the hand.

Post oak bluff
In a no-limit game, a minimal bet made into a large pot by the holder of a marginal hand. Attributable to Doyle Brunson. Origin unknown.

Poster
Someone who posted during the current hand.

Pot
All the money in the middle of the poker table that goes to the winner of the hand is the pot.

Pot committed
Having invested so much in a pot that it "wouldn't be good poker" to fold. Potstuck.

Pot equity
The percentage of the time you expect to win the pot, multiplied by the size of the pot. If you expect to win the pot 20% of the time, and the pot contains $100, your pot equity is $20.

Pot equity edge
You have a pot equity edge if you expect to win more often than an average opponent. If you have four opponents, the average player expects to win 20% of the time. If you expect to win 30% of the time, you have a pot equity edge.

Pot Limit
A game whose betting limit is always equal to the current size of the pot. A raise can include the size of the pot after the call is accounted for, usually rounded up to the next even number.

Pot odds
The ratio of the amount of money in the pot to the amount of money it will cost you to call a bet.

POTD
Post of the day.

Pot-limit
Any game in which the maximum bet or raise is the size of the pot.

POTM
Post of the month.

Potstuck
Having invested so much in a pot that it "wouldn't be good poker" to fold. Pot committed.

POTY
Post of the year.

POV
Point of view.

PP
Pocket pair, Party Poker, or Planet Poker in context.

PPM
Party Poker Million.

Preflop
Pertaining to the bet or situation after holecards are dealt, but before the flop.

Presto
Holding a pair of 5’s as your hole cards in Texas Hold’em.

Price
The pot odds you are getting for a draw or call. Example: "The pot was laying me a high enough price, so I stayed in with my gutshot straight draw."

Producer
Someone who brings lots of money to a game and keeps that money in circulation. May be, but not necessarily, a fish.

Prop (Proposition player)
Someone who is paid by the casino to play poker. Props use their own money (as opposed to a shill), and are hired to help keep shorthanded games running.

Proposition bet
The bet offered by a proposition hustler.
Side bets between players that are not related to the outcome of the hand.

Proposition hustler
Someone, usually a player, who offers other players bets on certain occurrences, paying off at less than true odds. Distinguished from proposition player.

Protect
To protect a hand is to bet so as to reduce the chances of anyone outdrawing you by getting them to fold.
To invest more money in a pot so blind money that you've already put in isn't "wasted." Example: "He'll always protect his blinds, no matter how bad his cards are."

Provider
See Producer or Fish.

PS
Poker Stars.

PSB
Pot-sized bet.

PSR
Pot-sized raise.

PT
Poker Tracker software.

PTBB/100
PokerTracker big bets won per 100 hands played. PTBB/100 is twice the size of the big blind won per 100 hands, as it assumes big bets as in limit holdem.

PTL
Player to my left.

PTR
Player to my right.

Puck
Button.

Pup (or Puppy)
A2345

Push (a hand)
To play a hand aggressively.

Push (chips)
Slang for going all-in in a NL game.

Put
To suspect that someone has a certain hand. eg: I put him on aces.

Put a play on
Outmaneuver someone by the timing or size (or both) of a bet.

Put on
To put someone on a hand (or on a draw) is to guess that that is what they are holding.

Pwned
Owned, slang originating with typos.

QOPTW
Question of playing this way.

Quackers
Deuces

Quads
Four of a kind.

Qualifier
In high-low split games, the qualifier is a requirement that a hand must meet in order to be eligible for part of the pot, generally the low part. See 8 or better.

Quarter
To win one fourth of the pot is to be quartered. This is usually the result of splitting half the pot in a high-low split game.

Quinine
Q9

Quint
QT

R
Rebuy $11+R would an $11 tournament with rebuys available.

R+A
Rebuy & AddOns $11+R would an $11 tournament with rebuys & add ons available.

Rabbit hunting
Rabbit hunting is the act of asking to see what cards would have come up if a hand had continued.

Race
In hold'em a hand contested between a two overcards and a lower pair. Nearly an even odds situation.

Rag
A card that appears useless. Also known as a blank.

Ragged
A board containing cards that don’t appear helpful.

Rail
The sideline at a poker table - the rail separating spectators from the field of play.
An imaginary or figurative zone for the same purpose, that is, separating the area in which the poker games are as opposed to the area for nonplaying onlookers

Railbird
Game observers. Railbirds should not comment on game play.

Railroad hand
J6

Rainbow
3 different suits on the flop.

Raise
Increase the bet.
In a limit game add a bet equal to the betting limit.
In a no-limit game increase by anything equal to or greater than the previous bet or raise.

Rake
The amount collected from the pot that goes to the casino.

Ram and jam
Bet and raise frequently and aggressively.

Rap
To check (as in knocking on the table).

Raquel Welch
38

Razz
Seven card stud played for low (ace to five) only.

Read
Observing how a player plays under certain conditions.
Make a conclusion about another player's hole cards based on exposed cards and previous betting.

Re-buy
In many tournaments, players are allowed to buy in again if they go broke or if their chip accumulation falls below a certain level, usually only during a predetermined amount of time.

Rebuy period
The period of time during a rebuy tournament during which players are permitted to rebuy.

Red
$5 chip.

Release
Fold a hand, usually implying a good hand when you think it is beat. “I had to release a set."

Reload bonus
A reload bonus is a bonus that a poker room gives to its existing players. Like a signup bonus, a reload bonus is typically a percentage of a player's deposit usually released to the player pending playing a given number of hands or specified amount of rake.

Represent
Playing a hand a certain way in order to give the impression that you hold cards other than your actual hand.

Reraise
To raise someone’s raise.

Reverse implied odds
The ratio of the amount of money now in the pot to the amount of money you will have to call to continue from the present round to the end of the hand.

Ring game
A game that is played for actual stakes, as opposed to a tournament game. Also known as a live game.

River
The last of five community cards in flop games (e.g. hold'em and omaha). Sometimes called fifth street. Seventh street in Stud.

Rivered
Losing a hand on the river, while you were ahead and the clear favorite on the turn. Can also be used to describe a hand being made using the river card.

Rock
A tight player who is normally only involved in hands in which he/she is the heavy favorite to win.

Rock garden
A game comprised of many rocks.

Rockets
AA

Rodney
King high club flush.

ROFLMAO
Rolling on floor laughing my a** off.

ROI
ROI is short for "return on investment." This is a poker term that is used to measure the profitability of one's play in poker tournaments. ROI is calculated as (100 * total profit/total buy-in). Thus, if one received a prize of $150 in a tournament with a buy-in of $100+$9, one's ROI is calculated as 100 * $41/$109= 37.61%. ROI is used for tournaments though because tournaments always have a fixed buy-in in relation to the prize pool. ROI is not useful for ring game play.

Roll
Bankroll.

Rolled Up
In seven card stud, three of a kind on the first three cards.

ROR
Risk of ruin.

Rough
In lowball, pertaining to the upper spectrum of a class of hands, that is, those topped by two or three cards in sequence. For example, 8-7-6-2-A is a rough 8, while 8-5-3-2-A is a smooth 8.

Round of betting
One opportunity to bet from each active player. If there are no raises, there is only one round of betting. If there are raises, there is more than one round of betting.

Round of hands
Orbit.

Rounder
A professional poker player.

Route 66
66

Royal flush
Ace high straight flush.

Runner-runner
A come hand that requires help from both the turn and river in order to win. Also known as a backdoor hand.

Running bad
Losing for a period of time.

Running good
Winning for a period of time.

Run over
Take advantage of another player, particularly by bluffing.

Rush
A player who wins a large number of pots in a short period of time is said to be on a rush.

s
Suited - AKs would be Ace & King of the same suit.

Sailboats
44

Salt Lake pair
AK

San Fransisco busboy
Q3

Sandbag
Another term for slow playing.
Sandbagging: concealing your strength for the purpose of increasing your profit.

Satan
6666

Satellite Tournament
A special tournament whose prize is usually a buy-in for a larger tournament.

SB
Small blind or small bet in context.

SC
Suited connector.

Scare card
A board card that can easily turn a winning hand into a losing hand by improving an opponent’s hand.

Scared money
Money a player is afraid to lose (and thus probably will).

Scoop
Winning an entire pot, usually (but not necessarily) by having a hand that is both the high and low hand in a split game.

Scooting
Giving someone a small amount of chips when you win a pot. Also called horsing.

Screwed down
A player who is playing very tight is said to be screwed down.

SD
Standard Deviation.

See
Call a bet.

Seigried and Roy
QQ

Sell a hand
Playing a very strong hand weakly in order to disguise your strength and keep other players from folding. Also known as slow playing.

Semi-bluff
To bet or raise with more cards to come when you believe your hand is currently beaten, but has a fair chance of improving into the best hand. Ref: TOP, D. Sklansky.

Session
A period of time spent playing in a poker game, normally measured in hours.

Set
Three of a kind when you hold a pair in your hand and a third shows up on the board.

Set over set
In hold 'em, one player's set against another's assumed not to be of the same rank.

Set someone in
In a no-limit game, bet enough chips that the opponent must go all in to call the bet.

Set up
Make a bet or action that causes another player to think you always act that way, so that you can take advantage of the misconception later; set a trap for someone.

SF
Straight flush.

SG
Stuck guy.

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.

Sharp tops
AA

Shill
Someone who is paid by the casino to play poker. Shills use the casino's money (as opposed to a prop), and are hired to help keep shorthanded games running.

Shoe store
Three Pair.

Short buy
A buy-in that is less than the required minimum buy-in.

Short game
Less than a full table. Usually 3 to 6 players at a nine or ten seat table.

Short handed
Pertaining to a short game.

Short odds
A high probability of a certain thing happening.

Short stack
A relatively small amount of chips as compared to the other players at the table. Also used to identify the player who possesses the “short stack”.

Short-chipped
Short-stacked.

Short-stacked
Low on chips.

Show one, show all
The rule that states if you show your cards to one player, you must reveal your cards to everyone else at the table.

Showdown
When all betting is done and the cards are turned over in order to determine the winner.

Shut up
Shut up.

Side game
At a poker tournament, a game other than the tournament game, usually consisting of players who have busted out of the tournament and players who come to tournaments expressly to get into side games because the action is often better than that of the tournament.

Side pot
The extra pot that is created when someone goes all-in. The person who went all-in is only eligible for the main pot, not the side pot(s).

Six [censored]
QQQ

Sizzler
K3

Skin
Many sites have more than one entrance into the same poker room.
For example Party Poker is the largest site on the net at the time of writing, but Empire Poker leads to the same games. Empire Poker is called a skin of Party Poker.

Slow
When you play passively, you are playing slow. See speed.

Slow down
To stop playing a hand as aggressively as it was played on earlier streets.

Slow play
Playing a very strong hand weakly in order to disguise your strength and keep other players from folding. Also known as sandbagging.

Slow roll
To wait, then slowly turn over your winning hand during showdown. A very rude thing to do.

Small bet
In a limit game, the smaller of the two bets in the betting structure.

Small Blind
The first bet posted by the player to the Dealer's left. It is a forced bet. The small blind bet amount is equal to half of the lower bet. For example, in a $10 - $20 game, the small blind is $5. Applies in Texas Hold'em Omaha Omaha Hi-lo.

Smooth
The best possible low hand with a particular high card. 8432A is a smooth 8. See also rough.

Smooth call
To call one or more bets without raising, when you are quite sure that you have the best hand. See also flat call.

SMZ
Sklansky, Malmuth & Zee - 2+2 Publisher's/Authors.

Snap off
To beat someone, often a bluffer, and usually with a not especially powerful hand, is to snap them off.
Catch someone bluffing.

SNG
Sit N Go: a tournament of fixed # of players that starts when all seats are filled.

Snowmen
88

Soft
An easy game.

Sooted
Suited.

Speculative hand
A hand that will win only rarely, but will make a big hand that can win a large pot when it does win.

Speed
Speed refers to the level of aggressiveness with which you play. Fast play is more aggressive, slow play is more passive.

Speed limit
55

Speeding
Caught bluffing is sometimes said to be caught speeding.

Spike
For the next board card to be a specific rank that you need to help your hand.

Splash
Tossing your chips into the pot, rather than placing them on the table in front of your cards. Splashing the pot is frowned upon.

Splash around
Play recklessly; play more hands than one should.

Split-pot game
A game in which the pot is split between the holders of two hands usually high/low.

Splitting blinds
When no one else has entered the pot, an agreement between the big blind and small blind to each take back their blind bets instead of playing the deal (chopping). Usually for the duration of a session.

Spread
For a casino or poker room to offer a certain poker game.

Spread limit
Poker in which the betting limits are somewhere between single limit and no limit. Bets have a range, from a minimum to a maximum.

Squeeze play
The situation in which a player is whipsawed. See whipsaw.

SS
Short Stack.

SS/SS2
Super/System or Super System 2, Doyle Brunson.

SSHE
Small Stakes Hold'em, Ed Miller, David Sklansky, Mason Malmuth.

SSNL
Small Stakes No Limit Forum on 2+2.

Stack
The amount of money you currently have at the table.

Starting requirement
The minimum holding a particular player feels he needs to get involved in a hand.

Standard Deviation
A statistical method of evaluating randomness of results.
The standard deviation is a statistic that tells you how tightly all the various examples are clustered around the mean in a set of data. When the examples are pretty tightly bunched together and the bell-shaped curve is steep, the standard deviation is small. When the examples are spread apart and the bell curve is relatively flat, that tells you you have a relatively large standard deviation.
The standard deviation is simply the square root of the variance.

Stay
Call rather than fold or raise.

Std dev
Standard Deviation.

Steal
To bet or raise causing an opponent to fold when you may not hold the best hand.

Steal the blinds
Preflop open-betting from the cutoff or button in the hopes that everyone following you will fold.

Steam
A player who is on tilt is sometimes said to be steaming. A steam raise is a raise made more out of frustration than out of strategic concerns.

Steaming
Playing recklessly, usually as a result of a bad beat (real or perceived). Also known as tilt or tilting.

Steel wheel
A straight flush, five high. That is, A2345 of the same suit.

Stfu
“Please, be quiet, sir.”

Sticks
AA

Stop and go
Call a bet or raise and push the next street.

Straddle
An optional raise by the person to the immediate left of the big blind, declared before the cards are dealt. Also known as a “live straddle”, because that same person then has the option to reraise.

Straight
A hand consisting of five cards in consecutive ranks.

Straight flush
A hand consisting of five cards of consecutive ranks of the same suit.

Street
Cards dealt on a particular round. For instance, the fourth card in a player’s hand is often known as fourth street, the sixth card as sixth street, and so on.

String bet
A raise that is not done in one single motion.To call a bet then decide that you’d like to raise instead based on opponent's reactions. Very Illegal.

String raise
String bet.

Structure
The structure of a game refers to the details about the betting, including antes, blinds, and the amount that may be bet on any round.
Tournament structure is anything having to do with the amount of money in tournament chips players can get, the rebuy and add-on rules, and the amounts and timing of blind increases.

STT
Single-table tournament. Often the same as SNG.

Stuck
Losing, often in regards to a certain amount of chips.

Stupid end
In hold 'em, the low end of a straight, or a straight that can lose to a higher straight.

Suck out
To win a hand with a hand that was a heavy underdog.

Suited
Of the same suit.

Suited connectors
Sequentially ranked hole cards of the same suit. eg: 5h6h

Sunset strip
77

Sweat
Observing all or part of a session that one player is involved in, with their consent.

T$
Tournament $.

T&C
Terms & Conditions.

TA/TAG
Tight aggressive.

Table
The community cards.
The poker table itself.
The players at the table as a group.

Table captain
A player who is dominating the table.
A humorous name for the player who takes it upon himself to arbitrate in all matters requiring decisions, settle all disputes, and interpret all rules.

Table coach
The table know-it-all who likes to tell everyone how they should be playing their cards.

Table cop
A player who calls with the intention of keeping other players honest is said to be playing table cop.
Calling station.
A player who makes an effort to point out violations of rules or ettiquette, usually done in poor taste.

Table stakes
Table stakes is simply the rule that a player may only wager money they have on the table at the beginning of a hand. Usually, also implies that money may not be removed from the table.

Table talk
Any discussion at the table of the hand currently underway, especially by players not involved in the pot, and especially any talk that might affect play.

TAG
Tight aggressive.

Take it down
To win a pot.

Tap out
Losing all of your money.

Tapping the aquarium
To tell a poor player what he's doing wrong; ie: waking up a fish.

Tell
An unconscious gesture or mannerism that may assist others in determining the true strength of your hand.

Tension
TT

Tetris
T8

Texas hold'em
Texas Hold'em (or just "hold'em") is a poker game in which each player gets two pocket cards, while five community cards are dealt face-up on the table. The strength of a player's hand is the best hand that can be made with these seven cards. There is a round of betting after the pocket cards are dealt, after the first three community cards (the flop), after the fourth, or turn card, and after the final, or river card.

Texture
Describes the characteristics of the board. For instance, the texture of a board could be three to a straight, or to a flush, rainbow, scattered, or the often used “scary,” “dangerous,” “non-dangerous.”

The beast
6666

The dog hand
K9

The hammer
72

The marriage
KQ

Three of a kind
Three cards of the same rank. Also called trips or a set.

Three wise men
KKK

Three-bet
The first reraise (putting 3 bets in).

Tilt
Playing recklessly, usually as a result of a bad beat (real or perceived). Also known as steaming.

TKS
Thanks.

To go
An amount "to go" is the amount it takes to enter the pot.

TOC
Tounament Of Champions.

Toke
A tip given to the dealer by the winner of a hand.
English language idiom understood only by dealers.

TOP
Theory of Poker, David Sklansky.

Top pair
If there are three cards of different ranks on the flop in hold'em (or any flop game), and you pair the highest one, you have top pair.

Tournament
A poker competition, normally with an entry fee and prizes.

TP
Tight passive.

TP2K/TP3K/etc
Top pair, second/third/etc kicker eg: You hold AQ/AJ/etc and the board is A72.

TPFAP
Tournament Poker for Advanced Players, David Sklansky.

TPGK
Top pair good kicker.

TPNK
Top pair, no kicker.

TPTK
Top pair, top kicker.

TPWK
Top pair, weak kicker.

Trap
To slowplay a big hand in order to induce increased bets from other players.

Trey
3

Triple-draw lowball
A form of ace-to-five or deuce-to-seven with three draws, instead of the usual one in ordinary lowball, and thus having four betting rounds, often played pot limit.

Triple Shootout
A tournament of 81 tables, the winner of each table moving on to a second round of 9 tables, the winners of which move on to a final table.

Trips
Three of a kind, with one card in the hand matching a pair in the community cards.

TTH
Turbo Texas Hold'em by Wilson Software.

Turn
The fourth of five community cards in flop games (e.g. hold'em and omaha). Sometimes called fourth street.

Turncard
The fourth street card in hold'em or Omaha.

Twiggy
29

TWIMC
To whom it may concern.

Two pair
A hand consisting of two cards of one rank, and two cards of another rank (and an unpaired card).

Two gap
Describing hold 'em starting cards in which the two cards are three apart in rank, as KsTs.

TX
Thanks.

TY
Thank you.

TYVM
Thank you very much.

UB
Ultimate Bet.

Ui
Unimproved.

Uncalled bet
In any round of betting, a bet made by one player that is not matched by any other player (nor is any other player all in, which would still necessitate a showdown), thus giving the pot to the player who made the bet.

Underdog
A hand that is unlikely to win the pot.

Underpair
A pocket pair that is lower than the lowest board card.

Under the gun
To the dealer's left; often refers to the first person to bet in a particular round.

Unethical
Taking unfair advantage of another player, whether or not by breaking the rules.
Not following the rules of conduct recognized in poker.

Union Oil
76

Up
Aces up is two pair with aces as the higher pair.

Upcards
Cards that are dealt faceup for opponents to see in stud games.

UTG
Under the gun, first player to act preflop.

UTG+1
Under the gun plus one, second player to act preflop.

Valentines
Heart flush.

Value Bet
A bet made with the intention of getting called by one or more lesser hands, as opposed to getting the others to fold. Usually implies betting a hand that has only a slight edge, and one that a conservative player would likely check with.

Variance
A measure of the spread of a statistical distribution about its mean or center.
In poker: the distribution of your results over a a set of hands or sessions, or the swings in a positive or negative direction of cash flow.

VB
Value bet.

Vigorish
House take; time; rake.

Village People
Four queens.

Villain is 25/5/2
Villian's PokerTracker stats: VP$IP=25, PFR=5, Aggression Factor = 2.

Visine
AhAd

VN
Very nice.

VNH
Very nice hand.

VP$IP
Voluntarily Put $ In Pot, (PT).

VVN
Very very nice.

WA/WB
Way ahead, way behind.

Wager
Any bet.

Walk
Allowing the big blind to win uncontested.

Walking back to Houston
AKs

Walking sticks
77

Wash
To place a deck of cards face down on the table and thoroughly mix them.

Washington Monument
555

WCOOP
PokerStars' World Championship Of Online Poker.

Weak
Pertaining to a player who loses because of timid play, that is, is reluctant to raise and quick to fold.

Weak passive
Describing a player who calls a lot and rarely raises, or the play of such a player.


Weinberg
T3

WGAF
Who gives a flute.

WGAFF
Who gives a flying flute.

Wheel
In ace-to-five lowball, the best hand possible, A-2-3-4-5. So called, because Bicycle playing cards have one depicted in their design. Often also called a bicycle.
In deuce-to-seven lowball, the best hand possible, that is, 7-5-4-3-2 of mixed suits. Unlike ace-to-five, the cards cannot all be of the same suit.
In London Lowball the best hand 6-4-3-2-A of mixed suits.

Whipsaw
Perform the action of two players who keep raising and reraising each other, while one player between them keeps having to call further bets to remain in the pot. Also called crossfire, sandwich, squeeze.

White
$1 chip.

Wild card
A card that can serve as any other card in making your hand.

Windsor waiter
Q3

Wired pair
Pocket pair.

WLLH
Winning Low Limit Hold'em, Lee Jones.

Woodcutter
KTo

Woolworth
5T

Worst of it
A situation in which a wager will be unprofitable in the long run.

WPT
World Poker Tour.

WSOP
World Series Of Poker,

WSOPME
World Series Of Poker Main Event.

WTF
Huh?

YMMV
Your mileage may vary.

YSSCKY
You should seriously consider killing yourself.

Zoo
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