Welcome to the Poker Terminology section
Fold: To throw a hand away.
Fourth Street: The second upcard in seven-card stud or the first boardcard after the flop in holdem (also called the turn card).
Fouled Hand: A hand no longer in play.
Forced Bet: A required wager to start the action on the first betting round (the normal way action begins in a stud game).
Freeroll: A chance to win something at no risk or cost.
Full Buy: Purchase of at least the minimum requirement of chips needed for a particular game.
Full House: A hand consisting of three of a kind and a pair.
Gutshot: A straight filled "inside". If you have 9s-8s, the flop comes 7c-5h-2d, and the turn is the 6c, you've made your gutshot straight.
Hand: (1) All the cards in a players hand known only to the player. (2) The five cards determining the poker ranking. (3) A single poker deal.
Heads-Up Play Only two players left in play.
Holecards Cards dealt facedown to a player.
Heads: Up A pot that is being contested by only two players - "It was heads up by the turn."
Hit: As in "the flop hit me." It means the flop contained cards that help your hand. If you have AK, and the flop comes K-7-2, it hit you.
House: The establishment running the game. Example: "The $2 you put on the button goes to the house."
Implied Odds: Pot odds that do not exist at the moment, but may be included in your calculations because of bets you expect to win if you hit your hand. For instance, you might call with a flush draw on the turn even though the pot isn't offering you quite 4:1 odds (your chance of making the flush) because you're sure you can win a bet from your opponent on the river if you make your flush.
Insurance A side agreement when someone is all-in for a player in a pot to put up money that guarantees a payoff of a set amount in case the opponent wins the pot.
Jackpot: A special bonus paid to the loser of a hand if he gets a very good hand beaten. In hold'em, the "loser" must typically get aces full or better beaten. In some of the large southern California card clubs, the jackpots have gotten over $50,000. Of course, the jackpot is funded with money removed from the game as part of the rake.
Kansas City Lowball: A form of draw poker low also known as deuce-to-seven, in which the best hand is 7-5-4-3-2 and straights and flushes count against you.
Kicker: The highest unpaired card that helps determine the value of a five-card poker hand.
Kill (or Kill Blind): An oversize blind, usually twice the size of the big blind and doubling the limit. Sometimes a "half-kill" increasing the blind and limits by fifty percent is used. A kill can be either voluntary or mandatory. The most common requirements of a mandatory kill are for winning two pots in a row at lowball and other games, or for scooping a pot in high-low split.
Kill Button: A button used in a lowball game to indicate a player who has won two pots in a row and is required to kill the pot.
Kill Pot: A pot with a forced kill by the winner of the two previous pots, or the winner of an entire pot of sufficient size in a high-low split game. (Some pots can be voluntarily killed.)
Leg Up: Being in a situation equivalent to having won the previous pot, and thus liable to have to kill the following pot if you win the current pot.
Live Blind A blind bet giving a player the option of raising if no one else has raised.
Lock-Up A chip marker that holds a seat for a player.
Lowball A draw game where the lowest hand wins.
Lowcard The lowest faceup card at seven-card stud, which is required to bet.
Maniac: A player who does a lot of hyper-aggressive raising, betting, and bluffing. A true maniac is not a good player, but is simply doing a lot of gambling. However, a player who occasionally acts like a maniac and confuses his opponents is quite dangerous.
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