♣  The RYPC Poker Alfabet: A ♦ ABC Poker When a poker player plays very predictable ♦ All-In When a player bets all of his remaining chips ♦ Advertising Faking a bluff, disappointment or good cards ♦ Aggressive Betting and Raising more often then checking or calling ♦ Ante A set amount posted by all players before the start of a hand B ♦ Backdoor To catch both the turn and river card to complete a draw ♦ Bad Beat When your strong hand is beaten by a weak hand ♦ Bankroll The amount of money you reserve to play poker with ♦ Betting the pot When you make a bet that's the size of the pot ♦ Blinded off When you don't get strong hands, your stack will slowly get smaller due to the blinds ♦ Bluffing When you play your weak hand like a strong hand ♦ Belly Buster A draw and/or catch to an Inside Straight ♦ Big Blind The player to the left of the dealer posts a small blind, the player to the left of the small blind places the Big Blind. ♦ Blank A card that doesn't affect the hand, also known as brick ♦ Board The community cards on the table ♦ Boat A full house, three of a kind plus a pair like, A,A,A,J,J ♦ Bubble one place before getting in the money in a tournament ♦ Burn card The top card of the deck that goes into the muck before dealing the flop, turn and river ♦ Button The spot from where the dealer starts dealing C ♦ Call A bet that matches a made bet ♦ Crying call A call that you make eventhough you think you're beaten ♦ Calling Station A player who calls a lot, but doesn't raise or fold often ♦ Chasing When you try to to outplay your opponent on the flop by bluffing and hope to make a hand on the turn and river ♦ Check If no bets have been made, you can check ♦ Check-Raise If you check to your opponent and he makes a bet, you raise him. Also known as Sandbacking. ♦ Chip-Leader The person who has the biggest stack ♦ Connectors Consecutive cards, like 78 or QK ♦ Community Cards Cards that are dealt to the table so all players can use these cards to complete a five-card hand ♦ Cut-off The player to the right of the button D ♦ Downcards The two cards that are dealt to you, also known as Hole Cards or Pocket Cards ♦ Donkey A bad player, also know as a fish E ♦ EV, Expected Value A term used with odds calculation F ♦ Facecard A king, queen, or jack ♦ Family Pot A hand that all players at the table are playing ♦ Fifth Street The last community card in a flop game also known as the river ♦ Fish A bad player, also know as a donkey ♦ Floating Calling a bet in order to try to steal the pot on the turn or river ♦ Flop The first three community cards ♦ Fold When you give up the hand and throw your cards into the muck ♦ Free card When you can see the turn or river without having to call a bet ♦ Freeze out A poker tournament with no rebuys. out of chips is out of the game ♦ Flush When you have five cards of the same suit, like A,T,8,6 4 of diamonds ♦ Four of a kind When you have four of the same cards, like Q,Q,Q,Q,2 , also known as quads ♦ Fourth street The fourth community card, also known as the turn ♦ Full house three of a kind plus a pair like, A,A,A,J,J also known as a boat G ♦ Grinder A player that plays a tight, safe pokerstyle. Usually a multi-table player. ♦ Gut-Shot An inside straight draw H ♦ Hole cards The two cards that are dealt to you, also known as Down cards or Pocket Cards ♦ heads up When there are two players left in the game or hand ♦ High card The highest card decides who wins when none of the players made a combination ♦ Hit When you get the card on the community-board that you need I ♦ 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 on future betting rounds. ♦ Inside Straight Draw Four cards that need one more card in the middle to complete a straight. If you catch this card you make an Inside Straight. J ♦ Jamming Betting and raising constantly to get as many chips as possible into the pot, also known as Ramming and Jamming K ♦ Kicker Your highest unpaired card to go with a pair, two pair and three of a kind that decides the winner in tie situations. L ♦ Lay Down Fold ♦ LAGG A loose aggressive player ♦ Leak A fundamental shortcoming in your game, a reason to constantly lose money ♦ Limper A player who enters the pot by calling the Blind ♦ Longhand When you play poker with more then seven players ♦ Loose A player that plays (too) many hands

M ♦ Made hand A hand that's completed and doesn't need anymore help from the board ♦ Maniac A loose, aggressive player ♦ Married When you keep playing a hand, when you know you're beat and don't have the proper odds to stay in the hand ♦ Monster A very strong hand ♦ Muck To throw your cards in without showing them N ♦ Nuts The best possible hand in a game. A hand that can't be beaten ♦ Nit A player who plays very tight and is afraid to gamble O ♦ O The symbol for offsuit ♦ Offsuit The cards don't have the same symbol, like Hearts and Diamonds ♦ Odds The chance you have to hit a certain card ♦ Outs The number of cards left in the deck that can improve your hand ♦ Outside / Open ended Straight A hand of 4 consecutive cards that needs a high or a low card to complete the straight ♦ Overpair A pocket pair higher than the community cards on the board ♦ Overcards Your hole cards are higher then the community cards on the board P ♦ Pass Fold ♦ Pocket cards The two cards that are dealt to you,also know as downcards and pocket cards ♦ Pocket pair The two cards that are dealt to you are a pair ♦ Poker face When your face doesn't show what's on your mind ♦ Position The position that you have in the hand, the later the position you're in , the better ♦ Pot Odds The calculation you make when you're deciding if you're going to call a bet ♦ Post A forced bet like a blind ♦ Pot The total of chips in the centre of the table ♦ Pre flop The first bettinground, before the flop comes ♦ Push Going All-in Q ♦ Quads Four of a kind R ♦ Ragged A flop that doesn't help anybody much ♦ Rainbow A flop with three different suits ♦ Raise When you raise the first bet ♦ Rake A set amount of money removed from each pot by the house ♦ Raise, Re-Raise A bet that increases the level of the current bet ♦ Rebuy A tournament with the option to buy in again after losing all your chips ♦ River The last community card in a flop game also known as fifth street ♦ Rock A passive, tight player ♦ Royal Flush The highest possible handcombination, five consecutive cards of the same suit, A,K,Q,J,T of klubs ♦ Rush A short period of invincibility where you can't lose any hand you play, also known as on a roll, a streak and in the zone ♦ Runner A card that you need to complete your hand S ♦ Satellite A tournament that rewards a seat in a subsequent tournament ♦ Set Three of a kind, also known as trips ♦ Semi Bluff Betting on your hand while your hand isn't completed yet ♦ Shark A good , strong player who consistently wins ♦ Short handed When you play poker with less then seven players ♦ Showdown When the betting rounds are finished and the cards are shown to establish the winner ♦ Slow Play To play a strong hand weak to try to make more money ♦ Small Blind A forced bet made by the player to the dealers left ♦ Smooth call Calling a bet or raise with a very strong hand to conceal your handstrength ♦ Straight Five consecutive cards of any suit ♦ Straight Flush Five consecutive cards of the same suit ♦ Sucker Straight Five consecutive cards of any suit on the low side of the community cards on the board ♦ Suit The cardsymbols, Diamonds, Spades, Klubs and Hearts T ♦ T Short for ten ♦ TAGG A tight-agressive player, tight with the handselection but aggressive in playing them ♦ Tell Certain behavior of a player from which you can tell if he has a strong or weak hand ♦ Texas Dolly The nickname of pokerlegend Doyle Brunson, he won the WSOP twice with hole cards T and 2 ♦ Tilt Playing carelessly with bad decisions after a run of losing money, bad luck or a bad beat ♦ Trips Three of a kind, also known as a set ♦ Tricky play Playing your hand onorthodox to confuse your opponents, also known as deceptive play ♦ Two Gap A connector with two missing cards, like K and Ten ♦ Turn The fourth community card, also known as fourth street U ♦ Underpair A pocket pair lower than the community cards on the board ♦ Under the Gun The first player to act in a hand, the player to the left of the big blind W ♦ Wheel A straight with Ace,2,3,4,5

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