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 Ace-High: A five-card hand containing an ace but no pair; beats a king-high, but loses to any pair or above.
Aces Full: A full house with aces over any pair.
Aces Up: Two pairs, one of which is aces.
Action: The betting.
Active Player: A player still in the pot.
Add-On: The opportunity to buy additional chips in some tournaments.
Advertise: To make a bluff with the deliberate intention of being exposed as a loose player.
All-In: When a player bets all his or her remaining chips.
An Ace Working: An ace in hand.
Angle: Any technically legal but ethically dubious way to increase your expectation at a game; a trick.
Ante: A token bet required before the start of a hand.
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Baby: A small card.
Back Door Flush (or Straight): When the last two cards make a player's hand, even though he or she played on the flop for some other reason.
Back Into A Hand: To draw into a hand different from the one you were originally trying to make.
Bad Beat: When a strong hand is beaten by a lucky hand; a longshot win.
Bankroll: The amount of money you have available to wager.
Behind: You're behind if you don't have the best hand before the last cards have been dealt.
Belly Buster: A draw to fill an inside straight; a gut shot.
Bet: To voluntarily put money or chips into the pot.
Bet For Value: Betting in order to raise the amount in the pot, not to make your opponents fold.
Bet Into: To bet before a stronger hand, or a player who bet strongly on the previous round.
Bet The Pot: To bet the total value of the pot.
Betting Black: Betting $100 amounts (black is a common color for $100 chips).
Betting Green: Betting $25 amounts (green is a common color for $25 chips).
Betting Red: Betting $5 amounts (red is a common color for $5 chips).
Betting White: Betting $1 amounts (white is a common color for $1 chips).
Betting Interval: The period during which each active player has the right to check, bet or raise; the round of betting. It ends when the last bet or raise has been called by all players still in the hand.
Bicycle: The lowest possible hand in lowball: Ace-2-3-4-5. Also called a wheel.
Big Bet Poker: Another term for pot-limit and no-limit poker.
Big Blind: The forced bet in second position before any cards are dealt. Usually this is a Live Blind, which means that the player in this position can raise if no one else has before the cards are dealt.
Big Slick: The Ace-King card combination.
Black Leg: Archaic term for crooked card-sharp.
Blank: A card that is of no value to a player's hand.
Blind: A forced bet that one or more players to the dealer's left must make before any cards are dealt to start the action on the first round of betting.
Blind Raise: When a player raises without first looking at his or her cards.
Blow Back: To lose back one's profits.
Bluff: To bet or raise with a hand that is unlikely to be the best hand.
Board: In flop games, the five cards that are turned face up in the center of the table; in Seven-Card Stud, the four cards that are dealt face up to each player.
Boat: Another name for full house.
Bottom Pair: When you use the lowest card on the flop to make a pair.
Bounty: A small amount of cash awarded to a player when he knocks out another player in some tournaments.
Brick: A blank.
Bring-In: The forced bet made on the first betting round by the player dealt the lowest card showing in Seven-Card Stud and the highest card showing in razz.
Bring It In: To start the betting on the first round.
Broadway: An ace high straight.
Brush: A cardroom employee responsible for managing the seating list.
Buck: In all flop games, a small disk used to indicate the dealer, or used to signify the player in the last position if a house dealer is used; a button.
Bug: A Joker that can be used to make straights and flushes and can be paired with Aces, but not with any other cards.
Bullet: An Ace.
Bullets: A pair of Aces.
Bump: To raise.
Buried Pair: In stud games, a pair in the hole.
Burn: To deal off the top card, face down, before dealing out the cards (to prevent cheating); or to set aside a card which has been inadvertently revealed.
Bust: A worthless hand that has failed to improve as the player hoped; a busted hand.
Bust a Player: To deprive a player of all his chips; in tournament play, to eliminate a player.
Bust Out: To be eliminated from a tournament by losing all your chips.
Busted: Broke, tapped.
Busted Flush: A hand with only four of five cards in a flush.
Button: In all flop games, a small disk used to signify the player in the last position if a house dealer is used; a buck.
Buy-In: The miniumum amount of money required to sit down in a particular game.
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