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Backdoor: Catching both the turn and river card to make a drawing hand. Bad Beat: To have a hand that is a large underdog beat a heavily favored hand. It is generally used to imply that the winner of the pot had no business being in the pot at all, and it was the wildest of luck that he managed to catch the one card in the deck that would win the pot. Bet: To make a wager by putting chips into the pot. Big Slick: A nickname for AK (suited or not). Blank/Brick: A board card that doesn't seem to affect the standings in the hand. Blind Bet: A forced bet that must be posted before the player receives any cards. (In Texas Hold'em there's a "Small Blind" and a "Big Blind") Board: All the community cards in a Hold'em game -- the flop, turn, and river cards together. Button: A white acrylic disk that indicates the (nominal) dealer. Also used to refer to the player on the button. Buy The Pot: To bluff with a strong bet, hoping to "buy" the pot without being called. Buy-In: An amount of money you pay to enter a tournament. Often expressed as two numbers, such as $100+9, meaning that it costs $109 to enter the tournament; $100 goes into the prize fund and $9 goes to the house. Call: To post an amount equal to the bet of another previous player's bet. Check: To abstain from betting, but continue to stay in contention for the pot because no other player has bet on that round. Check-Raise: To check and then raise when a player behind you bets. Occasionally you will hear people say this is not fair or ethical poker. Almost all casinos permit check-raising, and it is an important poker tactic. It is particularly useful in low-limit hold'em where you need extra strength to narrow the field if you have the best hand. Chop: An agreement between the two players with blinds to simply take their blinds back rather than playing out the hand if nobody else calls or raises in front of them. Connector: A Hold'em starting hand in which the two cards are one apart in rank. Examples: King/Queen, Seven/Six Dealer Button: A marker moved clockwise around a poker table to denote an imaginary dealer. Draw Dead: Trying to make a hand that, even if made, will not win the pot. If you're drawing to make a flush, and don't realize that your opponent already has a full house, you are "drawing dead." Family Pot: A pot in which all (or almost all) of the players call before the flop. Fish: A poor player -- one who gives his money away. It's a well-known rule (though not well-followed) among "good" players to not upset the bad players, because they'll stop having fun and perhaps leave. Thus the phrase, "Don't tap on the aquarium." Flop: The first three community cards, put out face up, all together. Fold: To turn in the card to the dealer and terminate play of that hand. Free Card: A turn or river card on which you don't have to call a bet because of play earlier in the hand (or because of your reputation with your opponents). For instance, if you are on the button and raise when you flop a flush draw, your opponents may check to you on the turn. If you make your flush on the turn, you can bet. If you don't get it on the turn, you can check as well, seeing the river card for "free." Gutshot Straight: A straight filled "inside." If you have 9/8, the flop comes 7/5/2, and the turn or river is the 6, you've made your gutshot straight. Heads-Up: A pot that is being contested by only two players. Kicker: An unpaired card used to determine the better of two near-equivalent hands. For instance, suppose you have AK and your opponent has AQ. If the flop has an ace in it, you both have a pair of aces, but you have a king kicker. Kickers can be vitally important in Hold'em. Muck: The pile of folded and burned cards in front of the dealer. Example: "His hand hit the muck so the dealer ruled it folded even though the guy wanted to get his cards back." Nuts: The best possible hand given the board. Offsuit: A Hold'em starting hand with two cards of different suits. One-Gap: A Hold'em starting hand with two cards two apart in rank. Examples: Jack/9, Six/Four. Out: A card that will make your hand win. Normally heard in the plural. Example: "Any spade will make my flush, so I have nine outs." Pot: The money or chips in the center of a table that players compete to win. Pot-Committed: A state where you are essentially forced to call the rest of your stack because of the size of the pot and your remaining chips. Pot Odds: The amount of money in the pot compared to the amount you must put in the pot to continue playing. For example, suppose there is $60 in the pot. Somebody bets $6, so the pot now contains $66. It costs you $6 to call, so your pot odds are 11:1. If your chance of having the best hand is at least 1 out of 12, you should call. Pot odds also apply to draws. For instance, suppose you have a draw to the nut flush with one card left to come. In this case, you are about a 4:1 underdog to make your flush. If it costs you $8 to call the bet, then there must be about $32 in the pot (including the most recent bet) to make your call correct. Quads: Four of a kind. Raise: To make a bet increasing the size of a previous bet on that betting round. Rake: An amount of money taken out of every pot by the dealer. This is the cardroom's income. Runner: Typically said "runner-runner" to describe a hand that was made only by catching the correct cards on both the turn and the river. Example: "He made a runner-runner flush to beat my trips." Satellite: A tournament that does not award cash to its winners, but a seat (or seats) in a subsequent "target" tournament. Set: Three of a kind when you have two of the rank in your hand, and there is one on the board. Short Stack: A number of chips that is not very many compared to the other players at the table. Showdown: The point at which all players remaining in the hand turn their cards over and determine who has the best hand -- i.e., after the fourth round of betting is completed. Of course, if a final bet or raise is not called, there is no showdown. Side Pot: A pot created in which a player has no interest because he has run out of chips. Example: Al bets $6, Beth calls the $6, and Carl calls, but he has only $2 left. An $8 side pot is created that either Al or Beth can win, but not Carl. Carl, however, can still win all the money in the original or "center" pot. Slow Play: To play a strong hand weakly so more players will stay in the pot. Splash the Pot: To toss chips directly into the pot rather than put them in a stack in front of you. Don't do it. Split Pot: A pot that is shared by two or more players because they have equivalent hands. String Bet: A bet (more typically a raise) in which a player doesn't get all the chips required for the raise into the pot in one motion. Unless he verbally declared the raise, he can be forced to withdraw it and just call. This prevents the unethical play of putting out enough chips to call, seeing what effect that had on the player's face, and then possibly raising. Suited: A hold'em starting hand in which the two cards are the same suit. Example: "I had to play J-3 -- it was suited." Tilt: To play wildly or recklessly. A player is said to be "on tilt" if he is not playing his best, playing too many hands, trying wild bluffs, raising with bad hands, etc. Under the Gun: The position of the player who acts first on a betting round. For instance, if you are one to the left of the big blind, you are under the gun before the flop. 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