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Party Poker Terms and Named Hands
This list of Party Poker Terms was made so that you can understand some of the terminology used in the Party Poker Strategy Articles like the ones found here in the
Party Poker Tournament Strategy Guide. There is also a list of Named
Poker Hands that you might hear being thrown around from time to time. If you're semi-serious about poker a lot of these will be already familiar to
you, but they're good to to know anyway.
Party Poker Terms
All-in
Raise or calling for all your remaining chips
Backdoor
Catching 2 cards on the turn and river which help your hand
Bad Beat
When the favored player to win a hand loses by some miraculous event
Belly Buster
Also known as an inside or gutshot straight draw – drawing for a straight where you need 4 inside cards to help you (example holding 56 89 and looking for a 7 to help you make a straight)
Bicycle or Wheel
A-2-3-4-5, lowest straight possible
Call
To match someone’s bet or raise
Cap
The last raise in a betting round
Check
To pass or not bet
Check Raise
To check to the next person, then raise someone who bets after you
Chop
Splitting the pot between the small and big blinds, usually taking back your bet if no one else has joined in the hand
Cold Call
Calling 2 or more bets
Counterfeited
When your hand gets significantly weaker because of community cards that come out, often making you lose your hand or split the pot with someone else
Cracked
When your hand gets beat, usually when you’re the favorite to win and end up losing
Drawing dead
When someone has a hand that you cannot beat no matter what community cards come out
Dominated
When your hand has a significant advantage over someone else’s hand – example KK versus KQ or AK vs AQ
Fifth Street
Also known as the river in Texas Hold’em
Fish
A bad player
Flop
The first three community cards to come out in Texas Hold’em
Flush
Having 5 cards of the same suit
Free Card
Betting or raising on the flop so that the previous aggressor checks to you on the turn, allowing you to check and see the river card without paying any money
Full house
Having 3 of a kind and also a pair (Ace-Ace-Ace and King-King)
Gutshot Straight
Also known as an inside or belly buster straight
Heads up
One on One
Kicker
The unpaired card in your hand that determines who has a better hand
Limp in
Calling pre-flop, usually referring to the blind who limps in for half a bet more to see a flop
Loose
A player who plays many hands and draws a lot
Monster Hand
A very big hand
Muck
To fold your hand, and also known as the dead card pile
Nuts
The best hand possible
Offsuit
Cards that do not have the same suit
Omaha
A poker game where players are dealt 4 cards, there are 5 community cards, and players must use 2 cards and only 2 cards to make the best 5 card hand.
Open ended straight draw
When you have 4 cards in a row and need a higher or lower card to finish your straight, also known as an outside straight – example would be if you held 4567 and needed an 8 or 3 to make a straight
Pocket Pair
A pair hidden in your hand that no one can see
Pot
The money involved in the current hand
Prop
A player hired by the casino to help get a game started
Runner Runner
Same as backdoor – Catching 2 cards on the turn and river to complete your hand
Satellite
It is a mini-tournament to gain an entry into a larger tournament.
Scoop
To win the entire pot.
Seating List
A waiting list. A player would put his or her name on this list if there were no seats at
the table at which they wish to play.
Second Pair
In flop games, when you pair the second highest card on the board.
Seven-card Stud
A well-known poker game in which players get three down cards and four up cards.
You play the best five of those seven cards. Click here for information on Seven-card Stud.
Seventh Street
This is the final round of betting in Seven Card Stud and Stud 8 or Better.
Shills
Shills are paid props who help start and maintain poker games.
Showdown
At the end of the final betting round, it's when all active players turn their cards faceup
to see who has won the pot.
Side Pot
A separate pot(s) which is contested by remaining active players when one or more
players are all-in.
Sixth Street
In Seven-card Stud, this is the fourth "up" card dealt to the player (their 6th card). It
is also the 4th round of betting.
Small Blind
The amount put in the pot by the person immediately to the left of the dealer "button"
prior to the cards being dealt.
Split
Tie.
Stack
A pile of chips.
Straddle
A straddle is a Blind bet which is usually double the size of the Big Blind\ (and that
player may raise when the action gets to him).
Straight
Five consecutive cards of any suit.
Straight Flush
Five consecutive cards of the same suit.
Structure
The limits put on the blinds/ante, bets, and raises in any particular game.
Stud Games
Games in which players get down cards and up cards.
Texas Hold'em
This is also the name for Hold'em, the most popular form of poker.
Third Street
In Seven Card Stud and Seven Card Stud 8 or Better, this is the first betting round on
the first three cards.
Three of a Kind
Three cards of the same number or face value ("trips").
Tight
A player who doesn't play many pots. A tight game is one that doesn't have much
action.
TOC
Tournament of Champions.
Top Pair
In flop games, when the player pairs one of his down cards with the highest card on
board.
Turn
In flop games, this is the fourth card dealt. It is the third round of betting.
Two Pair
A hand consisting of two different pairs.
Up Card
A card that is dealt face-up.
WSOP
World Series of Poker.
Name Poker Hands
Ace-Duecy
Ace-2
Ajax
Ace-Jack
American Airlines
Pocket Aces
Bullets
Pocket Aces
Big Slick
Ace-King
Canine
King-9
Computer Hand
Queen-7
Cowboys
Pocket Kings
Crabs
Pocket 3’s
Deadman’s Hand
Ace-8
Dolly Parton
9-5
Doyle Brunson
Ten-2
Ducks
Pocket 2’s
Jackson Five or Motown
Jack-5
Kojack
King-9
Ladies
Pocket Queens
Little Slick
Ace-Queen
Montana Banana
9-2
Pocket Rockets
Pocket Aces
Quinine
Queen-9
San Francisco Busboy
Queen-3
Snowmen
Pocket 8’s
Speed Limit
Pocket 5’s
Thirty Miles
Set of Tens
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