| Action | Player's turn to bet, raise, or fold |
| All-in | Committing all your chips in a poker hand |
| Backdoor | A draw requiring two connectors or same suited cards to complete |
| Bad Beat | An unlucky loss against the odds |
| Bankroll | Amount of money a player sets aside for poker |
| Big blind | Mandatory bet before cards are dealt (by player after two seats after button) |
| Boat | Full house |
| Blind | Mandatory bet placed before cards are dealt |
| Bluff | Bet or raise without the best hand in order to induce an opponent's fold |
| Board | Shared or community cards |
| Bubble | Player eliminated before the money in a tournament |
| Burn | The card the dealer discards before dealing community cards |
| Button | Seat where the dealer is sitting |
| Call | Bet the amount of another player's bet |
| Check | Choosing not to bet but stay in the hand |
| Chip | A token used in poker to represent cash, with different colored chips representing different cash values. |
| Continuation bet | A bet made post-flop by player who bet first pre-flop |
| Drawing dead | When a player cannot win the hand, regardless of community cards to come |
| Fish | An inexperienced or bad player |
| Fifth street | The final community card, or river, dealt out |
| Flop | The first three community cards dealt |
| Flush | A hand consisting of five cards all the same suit |
| Fold | Throwing away your hand |
| Fourth Street | The turn card |
| Full house | A hand consisting of three-of-a-kind plus a pair |
| Freeroll | A free tournament with no buy-in and a pre-determined prizepool to be won |
| Freezeout | A game without a re-buy option |
| Gutshot | Uncompleted straight requiring one card |
| Heads-up | A poker game between two players only |
| Kicker | A highest unpaired card in a hand used to break ties |
| Limp | To call the big blind pre-flop |
| Loose | A reckless or aggressive player |
| Monster | A very strong hand |
| MTT | A multi-table tournament |
| Muck | To fold a hand without revealing hole cards |
| Nuts | The best possible hand |
| Offsuit | Hole cards of different suits |
| Outs | The cards remaining in the pack that can complete a winning hand |
| Overpair | Holding a pocket pair higher than any possible using community cards |
| Play the board | Using all community cards to create hand |
| Pocket pair | A pair in your starting hand |
| Position | A player's turn in betting order |
| Quads | Four of a kind |
| Rags | Terrible opening hand, like 7-2 offsuit |
| Rainbow | A flop consisting of cards of different suits |
| Raise | To bet more than the previous bet |
| Rake | A percentage of pot taken by cardroom |
| River | The fifth and final community card |
| Satellite | A tournament awarding entry into a larger tournament |
| Set | Three of a kind including a pair in the hole |
| Showdown | Two or more players revealing cards to decide a winning hand |
| Side pot | Extra pots contested after a multiple all-in |
| Sit and Go | A tournament that starts once all seats are filled (normally a single-table tournament) |
| Small blind | Mandatory small bet before cards are dealt (made by player seated after button) |
| Straight | A hand consisting of connecting cards |
| Split pot | An equally divided pot for tied hands |
| Tilt | A loss control of your emotions in a poker game, meaning you become aggressive and angry (due to a bad beat). |
| Top pair | A pair including a hole card and the highest community card |
| Trips | Three of a kind including only one hole card |
| Turn | The fourth community card |
| Under the gun | The first player to act before the flop |
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