Action - The amount of money placed into the pot
Active Player - a player who's still in the pot
Ante - a small portion of the minimum bet that each player must place into the pot
Bankroll - total amount of money a player can gamble with
Bet - Wager
Betting Limits - minimum or maximum amounts you can wager on one bet
Blind Bet - bet made by players that are required because of their betting positions
Bluff - when a player raises with a weak hand to remove players with stronger hands
Board - is where the community cards are dealt face-up in the center.
Boat - term used for a full house.
Break-even point - the point when the bets made would equal the payoffs a player receives.
Bring-in Bet - is a forced bet made in the first round by the player with the lowest up card.
Bug - Joker.
Bump - to raise.
Burn Card - the card that's temporarily removed from play.
Button - the plastic disc used to mark the player who is the next designated dealer.
Call - when the player matches the current bet on the table.
Caller - person who has called a bet.
Card Sharp - an expert card player.
Check - when a player who wants to stay in the game but not bet says check.
Chips - tokens used instead of cash.
Chips Tray - tray that holds the chips for the table.
Cut - where the dealer divides the deck in two and inverts them after they are shuffled.
Cut Card - card that is of a different color used to cut a deck of cards.
Dime Bet - a $1000 wager.
Dollar Bet - a $100 wager.
Draw - the second round of cards dealt.
Draw Button - a button that allows the player to draw five new cards.
Drop Box - on a gaming table, the box that serves as a repository for cash and chips.
Edge - advantage over an opponent.
Edge Bet - is made by the edge to force a bet.
Even Money - a bet that pays off exactly what was bet.
Face Card - a Jack, Queen or King are all face cards due to the figure on the card.
Family Pot - where everyone at the table has entered into the pot.
Fifth Street - final round of betting and the fifth community card of the game.
First Base - first position to the left of the dealer also called Age.
Flop - first three community cards, dealt simultaneously.
Flush - hand where all cards are of the same suit.
Fold - when a player chooses to decline a bet and drops out of the hand.
Foul - A hand when a player may not be able to play for reason or another.
Four of a Kind - four cards of the same denomination or of the same rank.
Fourth Street - In stud poker, the fourth card dealt to each player.
Full House - three of a kind and a pair.
Hand - your cards, also a player's best five cards
High Poker - where the hand with high cards win.
High Roller - person who plays for large stakes.
Hit - the card that's needed to make the hand
Hole Card - cards concealed in a players hand.
Hot - player on a winning streak
Inside Straight - four cards requiring one to complete the straight.
Insurance - Insurance is offered only when the dealers up card is an ace.
Jack - face card that ranks between the 10 and the queen.
Joker - 53rd card in a deck of cards sometimes used as a wild card.
Knock - in poker, at the time for making a bet, indicate that one declines to bet; check.
Limit - any game that has a fixed limit on how much you can bet or raise in each round.
Low - the lowest card or combination of cards showing on the board.
Low Poker - where the pot is awarded to the hand that has the lowest poker value.
Marker - a check that can be written at the gaming tables by a player. An IOU.
Muck - to discard a hand also the discard pile in which all cards are dead
Natural - card that's not wild or hand that doesn't contain any wild cards.
Nut - fixed amount a gambler decides to win in a day.
Odds - ratio of probabilities of either winning or losing the hand.
Open - player who bets first or the face-up cards in stud poker.
Overlays - in Texas Hold'em this is when a player's pair higher than any pair.
Pair - any two cards that have the same rank.
Pass - decline to bet, to fold and to throw your cards down.
Pat - in draw poker this is describing a hand that needs to draw no cards.
Pay Off - to call a bet because you believe a player has you beat also your payback.
Pone - player the right of the dealer.
Pool - the pot.
Pot - money that has been bet, anted, and raised by the players.
Power - in Stud this is the hand that contains the strongest up card.
Progressive - high draw games which once were played.
Puck - token used to show where the dealer position is.
Pump - raise.
Quads - four of a kind.
Qualifier - minimum a hand must meet in order to win the pot.
Queen - face card, the one that ranks between the jack and the king.
Quint - straight flush.
Rack - plastic tray holdings 100 chips in 5 stacks of 20.
Raise - one must place a higher wager into the pot, then all other players must call.
Rake - money taken from each pot and given to the host in return for hosting the game.
Rank - the value of the card as opposed to the actual suit of the card.
Red - color of $5 chips.
River - last card that is dealt in Stud of Hold'em.
Rockets - pair of aces in the hole.
Routine - straight flush.
Royal Flush - ace high straight flush, this is the best poker hand to have.
Run - straight or series of good hands.
School - players in a regular game.
Seat - chair at a table or an opening in a game.
Session - time of play from the moment a player is seated until they cash out.
Seventh Street - final round of betting on the last card in Seven card Stud.
Shake-Shake - Pai Gow Poker
Shark - expert player
Sharp - expert player.
Shed - discard in draw poker.
Showdown - players left in after the final round of betting must show their hands.
Shuffle - where the dealer mixes up the cards before dealing the next hand.
Singleton - a card that is the only one of its rank.
Sixth Street - is the sixth card in Seven Card Stud. It is also the fourth round of betting.
Steal - where the person playing is bluffing to win the pot.
Straight - hand that consists of 5 cards in sequence but not in the suit.
Straight Flush - hand that consists of 5 cards in sequence of the same suit.
Suit - 4 types of cards - Clubs, Diamonds, Hearts and Spades.
Third Street - in Seven Card Stud this is the first round of betting.
Three of a Kind - where a player holds three cards of the same suit.
Toke - tip given to the dealer or waitress in the form of a chip or money.
Trey - a three
Trip - three of a kind.
Two Pair - a hand consisting of two sets of pairs and a single card.
Up Card - open card or card that is dealt face up.
Wager - make a bet.
Wild Card - joker or standard card that can be used to represent any card desired.