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Texas Holdem Glossary. Newcomers to Texas holdem often get confused by some of the colorful slang and jargon used at the tables. We’ve put together this lengthy and (hopefully) comprehensive Texas holdem terms page to provide definitions for some of the words and phrases. 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. We currently have 1,237 Poker Dictionary Entries! Do you know some poker terms that you don’t see listed below? Or maybe it’s internet chat or forum lingo you see in our poker forum that should be defined here. Simply navigate to Submit New Poker.

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Glossary of Poker Terms: Alphabetical Listing

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• 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.

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