Most Popular Top 30 Terms in Every Poker Dictionary

1. JSG Most Popular Top 30 Terms in Every Poker Dictionary Poker is an interesting skill-based card game that is fast becoming popular in India. It has a distinct and interesting set of terms (called poker glossary) that every aspiring poker player should focus on to know the game better. We are hereby presenting 30 most common terms that all aspiring players should know before setting off to play their first game. Please note that it is not exactly a poker tutorial or a complete poker dictionary because a mention of these terms is individual. However, it will still be sufficient to introduce the most common poker terms to you. Presenting the poker dictionary you had been looking for! 1.Act It is used to signify the start of a play. This is usually the first word associated with poker. During an Act, a player can Check, Bet, Call, Raise, or Fold. 2.All-in

2. A unique situation when a player bets all his chips in the current hand. This is a common thing to happen when a player has a very good card combination in a particular game. 3.Ante To keep the game in motion, the Ante is placed. It is a forced bet that all players must put in before the hand begins. 4.Bad Beat A Bad Beat is when an expected player, who has very good hands, surprisingly loses to a less-capable player who has weaker hands. 5.Bankroll Bankroll is that lumpsum or exact amount of money that a player wagers on the table during his poker career. The higher the bankroll is, the “richer” that poker player is. 6.Bankroll management As explained above, a player usually affords to play poker in major tournaments by wagering money from his winnings and “savings.” It is thus important to play accordinglyand within one’s financial limits. One should place one’s bets and call appropriate stakes to avoid loss. 7.Blind The Blinds are forced bets that are posted by players as a requirement to keep the game in motion. Usually, there are two blinds- Small Blind and Big Blind. They are placed by players sitting up to two places to the left of the dealer button in most of the poker games. 8.Bluff A player, who has a weak set of card combination, may pretend that he has a better hand to make other players Fold their cards. Thus, a bluff is a bet made mostly to cover one’s weak cards. 9.Bounty Poker is all about the winner. Some poker tournaments, to make the race to the top more difficult, offer rewards to players for knocking out other competing players. Usually, the player who knocks out someone else in a cash game is paid beyond his pay-out structure. This surplus amount is called Bounty. 10.Bubble The bubble is a term used in poker tournaments to refer a player who fails to end his game on the paying positions. As for example, let’s say there are 50 poker players playing and only 15 of them are supposed to get paid, then players from position number 16 to 50 are bubbles. 11.Bust To bust means to either have an incomplete hand or to lose all of one's chips. Since chips are what the game progresses on, running out of them means a dead end to a player’s game. 12.Buy-in

3. A Buy-In is the minimum number of chips that are required by a player to be a part of a poker game or a tournament. 13. Call A Call in poker terms implies the situation in an ongoing game in which a player matches the amount of the most recent bet. 14. Community Cards Community Cards are those mutually shared cards that are dealt face up on a poker table. These cards are individually used by all players to make the best possible card combination (using the cards they were dealt in person) in every hand. 15 Fold In poker, not every card you would get dealt would help you win a hand. In such cases, it is advisable to give up on it instead of going ahead with it and wagering anything on it. Thus, Fold is an Act where a player gives up on his cards and forsakes his claim on the pot for that hand. 16 Check It is just the opposite of making a bet, a Check is an Act when a player goes passive, doesn’t place a bet and simply passes action to the next player in line. 17. Flop This is where the action starts in poker. A Flop means the act of dealing the first three face-up cards on a poker table by the dealer. Flop also refers to those three cards themselves. 18. Texas Hold’em Texas Hold’em is the most popular version of poker games worldwide. In it, every player gets two face-down playing cards and then five Community Cards are dealt face up on the table. Players are required to make the best five-card combination using two cards of their own and three (out of five) on the table. 19. Pot Limit Omaha The second most popular version of poker games. In it, a player gets dealt 4 cards and the end of the game is make the best card combination with two of his Hole Cards and three from the table. 20. Pocket or Hole Cards They are the cards that are dealt face down to a player. They are different from the Community Cards. 21. Raise A Raise is when a player increases the last placed wager (that was put by some other player). 22. Royal Flush It is a straight flush of ace, king, queen, jack and ten- all of the same suit. It is the highest possible hand and has 1 chance of an appearance in 649,740 hands.

4. 23. River It is the last community card given in all poker games. It most often decides the outcome of a game. 24. Satellite It is a tournament, winning which a player gets a free ticket to play in a higher placed and more famous tournament. The latter also has a much higher buy-in than that of the Satellite. 25. Straight A winning card combination in most circumstances, it features a set of five cards in numerical order. These cards may be of any suit. 26. Sit and Go A Sit and Go is a tournament in which ten or so players can get started with a game as and when they like, by wagering their money. 27. Rake Rake is the fixed percentage of money that a poker company charges for each hand of poker. 28. Tell Closely related to someone’s body language, a tell is an evident change in a player's playing pattern or behaviour. It shows that he is either happy with or is nervous about his card combination. 29. Tilt If the player is emotionally upset with his recent losses in a game, he is said to be in a tilt. The tilt results in further degradation in a player’s game. 30. Turn The turn is the fourth of the community cards dealt face up on a poker table. It is the second last in total five cards that a player can use to make his complete hand. We hope our poker dictionary would have given you a good introduction to some of the most common terms in Poker. You can bookmark this webpage for your ready reference and that way, you can check it out easily as a quick poker words dictionary.