Full A-Z of poker terms and poker lingo, So you'll never look like the fish at the table!
In poker, a donkey is an unskilled or 'bad' player who often puts his chips at risks. A donkey will often play a very lo...
This is a term used in live multi-table poker tournaments (MTTs). It describes a deal made between a ridiculously high n...
Deuce is the term given to the 2 card in poker. It is the lowest of all cards in the game of poker. e.g "I fe...
Drawing Dead is a situation in poker where a hand is doing so badly compared to another hand that no card that may come ...
Dinner For Two is a colloquial word for the 6 9 starting hand. It is a knock on the sexual term of the same name. ...
Dominated a term to describe a hand that is/has been significantly beaten by another hand. e.g "My Ace Quee...
A Dirty Stack is a stack of chips that have its denominations mixed together, as opposed to having all denominations in ...
A Dirty Out is a card that, if put on the board, may give a player a solid hand, but will give his opponent a better han...
This expresion is given to a player’s hand when he has two gutshots. In terms of outs, it is the same as an open ended...
A board where there are no possible draws is known as a dry board. An example of a dry board is –K 8 3- rainbow (all c...
This is the name given to a situation in which the preflop aggressor checks the Flop, but bets the Turn. As the Continua...
This is the name given to a bet from a player who is out of position against the original raiser. This is a very rare pl...
A hand that is no longer active. Hand can be declared dead for several reasons; sometimes cards are exposed prematurely ...
Aces and Eights (two pair). There are several legends that explain the name, one of them being that it was the hand that...
Money put in the pot by the players who are no longer active in the hand. Sometimes players use this term to also d...
A practice sometimes found in the cash games with the community cards, especially in the high stakes games. Players...
Term is used both for the person dealing cards in a poker game and the position at the table which acts last....
Although more common in the home games, this variation has been finding its way into official tournaments. Player w...
Other word for the option, e.g. check, bet, raise, all in, fold. Declaration can be verbal (spoken)and non-verbal, ...
Term from online cash games. When a player gets disconnected during a hand he or she is involved in, they will some...
A straight, from five to nine. Nickname given after Parton's role in the '9 to 5' movie.
The first (of three) card that shows up on the flop.
The term often used for the final card dealt in the 7-card stud games.
Any card dealt with the face down, e.g. visible only to one player. More often called a hole card....
The term used when player has put all his chips into the pot, e.g. has gone all in, uncovering the usually green su...
A term used to describe a losing period in poker. Since luck is an element of poker, downswings are considered a na...
When there are no outs left in a deck that could improve a player's hand in such a way that he would win the pot....
Pocket pair of twos (deuces)
When a player moves all in and gets called by two or more players, a dry pot is created. Since the player who is al...
This expression is used when a player has some outs that could improve his hand and turn it into a winner, but thei...
A term from Omaha games, where each player receives four cards. Two of the cards are in a one suit (hearts for example) ...
The term used when player has put all his chips into the pot, e.g. has gone all in, with nothing but a felt in fron...