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  • Add On - Being able to buy extra chips
  • All In - Betting all of you're chips that you have left
  • Ante - Bet that players have to make to play to ensure there is money in the pot
  • Bad Beat - A bad beat is when you lose with a very good hand, usually by a lucky last turn of a card makes the other player the winner
  • Bait - Small bet aimed at trying to get other players to stay in the game, bet or raise
  • Bank Role - You're total amount of money you plan to play with
  • Base Deal - Dealing cards from the bottom of the pack of cards instead of the top
  • Bet - Placing you're money you want to gamble in the pot
  • Blind - A bet that is required before any cards are dealt. Usually there is a Small Blind and a Big Blind
  • Bluff - To try and trick others into thinking you have a better hand than you actually have and betting or raising with it
  • Burn - To deal away and discard the top card of the deck before play starts
  • Bust - A hand not worth playing as it has little value
  • Buy In - The minimum amount of money required to enter the game
  • Call - Match the current highest bet
  • Cash In - To change you're money into chips
  • Cash Out - To change you're chips into money
  • Check - To pass your go and not betting
  • Community Cards - Cards placed in the center of the table face up for all players to use in Texas Hold'em, and Omaha
  • Dead Mans Hand - The hand Wild Bill Hickok had when he was killed, 2 aces and 2 eight's
  • Face Card - Any of the cards with a face, such as Jack, Queen and King
  • Flop - The first 3 community cards (see above) dealt for everyone to use
  • Flush - Poker hand with 5 cards of the same suit
  • Fourth Street - The first card turned over after the Flop (so it will be the 4th community card) or the second face up card in 7 card stud. Fourth Street is also known as "Turn card"
  • Heads Up - Where there is just 2 players left playing against each other
  • Loose game - Game with a lot of players in most hands
  • No Limit - Game where players can bet as many of their chips as they want to all if they want to
  • Pot Limit - Allowing players to bet up to the amount of chips in the pot
  • Raise - To call and increase previous bet
  • Re-Raise - To raise another players raise
  • River - The last round of betting, also know as "Fifth Street"
  • Showdown - Finding out who is the winner once all the bets have been place and cards dealt
  • Split Pot - The pot is divided between players either because their hands are of equal value or they both agree before the showdown to do so
  • Stack - A players chips
 
     
 

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