ACES UP: Two pair, a pair of Aces and any other pair.

ACTION: A fold, check, call, bet, or raise. For certain situations, doing something formally connected with the game that conveys information about your hand may also be considered as having taken action. An example would be showing your cards at the end of the hand.

ACTIVE PLAYER : A player still involved in a hand.

AGGRESSIVE ACTION: A wager that could enable a player to win a pot without a showdown; a bet or raise.

ALL BLUE: A flush containing either clubs or spades.

ALL-IN: When you have put all of your playable money and chips into the pot during the course of a hand, you are said to be all-in.

ALL PINK: A flush containing either diamonds or hearts.

ANTE: A prescribed amount posted before the start of a hand by all players.

BACK DOOR: Making a hand that the player wasn't drawing at.

BACK RAISE: To re-raise another players raise.

BAD BEAT: A hand being beat by another hand that had a very low percentage of becoming a winning hand.

BET: The act of placing a wager in turn into the pot on any betting round, or the chips put into the pot.

BIG BLIND: The largest regular blind in a game.

BLIND: A required bet made before any cards are dealt.

BLUFF: A bet or raise with a hand that is unlikely to beat the other players.

BOTTOM PAIR: Pairing the lowest card on the board.

BROKEN GAME: A game no longer in action.

BUY-IN: The minimum amount of money required to enter any game.

CARDS SPEAK: The face value of a hand in a showdown is the true value of the hand, regardless of a verbal announcement.

CHECK: To waive the right to initiate the betting in a round, but to retain the right to act if another player initiates the betting.

CHECK-RAISE: To waive the right to bet until a bet has been made by an opponent, and then to increase the bet by at least an equal amount when it is your turn to act.

DEALER BUTTON: A flat disk that indicates the player who would be in the dealing position for that hand (if there were not a house dealer). Normally just called “the button.”

DRAWING DEAD: Drawing to a hand that cannot win because someone already holds a hand that will beat what you are drawing to.

EARLY POSITION: A position in which you must act before most of the players during a round.

Flop: The first three community cards dealt up at one time at a poker table.

FLASHED CARD: A card that is partially exposed.

FLUSH: A poker hand consisting of five cards of the same suit.

FOLD: To throw a hand away and relinquish all interest in a pot.

FOURTH STREET: The first boardcard after the flop in hold’em (also called the turn card).

FOULED HAND: A dead hand. 

FULL HOUSE: A hand consisting of three of a kind and a pair. 

HEADS-UP PLAY: Only two players involved in play.

KICKER: The highest unpaired card that helps determine the value of a five-card poker hand.

LATE POSITION: A position in which you act after most of the other players during a round.

MISDEAL: A mistake on the dealing of a hand which causes the cards to be reshuffled and a new hand to be dealt.

MUCK: (1) The pile of discards gathered facedown in the center of the table by the dealer. (2) To discard a hand.

NO-LIMIT: A betting structure where players are allowed to wager any or all of their chips in one bet.

NUTS : The best possible hand.

OPENER: The player who made the first voluntary bet.

OUTS: The cards that will improve a hand to win.

PLAY THE BOARD: Using all five community cards for your hand in hold’em.

POSITION: (1) The relation of a player’s seat to the blinds or the button. (2) The order of acting on a betting round or deal.

PROTECTED HAND: A hand of cards that the player is physically holding, or has topped with a chip or some other object to prevent a fouled hand.

RAISE: To increase the amount of a previous wager. This increase must meet certain specifications, depending on the game, to reopen the betting and count toward a limit on the number of raises allowed.

RERAISE: To raise someone’s raise.

River: The final card dealt.

SIDE POT: A separate pot formed when one or more players are all in.

SHOWDOWN: The final act of determining the winner of the pot after all betting has been completed.

SHUFFLE: The act of mixing the cards before a hand.

SMALL BLIND: In a game with multiple blind bets, the smallest blind.

SPLIT POT: A pot that is divided among players, either because of a tie for the best hand or by agreement prior to the showdown.

STACK: Chips in front of a player.

STEAL: To bet or raise causing an opponent to fold when you may not hold the best hand.

STRAIGHT: Five cards in consecutive rank.

STRAIGHT FLUSH: Five cards in consecutive rank of the same suit.

SUITED: Cards are of the same suit. 

TIGHT: Playing fewer hands than normal. Tight game - A game with less players than normal in fewer hands.

TOP PAIR: Pairing the highest card on the board.

TURN: The fourth card dealt on the board during community card games.

TURNCARD: The fourth street card in hold'em or Omaha.

WAGER: (1) To bet or raise. (2) The chips used for betting or raising