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A‑Game
Your A-Game is the best level of poker you can currently play, with your skills and attention working together.
ABC Poker
ABC Poker is a straightforward style built around basic poker decisions, with little fancy or deceptive play.
Able
Able is an old poker term for the player immediately to the left of the dealer.
According to Hoyle
According to Hoyle means following the accepted rules: playing "by the book."
Ace
An ace is the card marked A. In standard high-hand poker it ranks above a king, but it can also be low in a straight.
Ace in the Hole
An ace in the hole is an ace dealt face down to a player. The phrase also means a hidden advantage.
Ace Out
To ace out is to win a poker hand while holding only ace-high, sometimes by bluffing.
Ace Up the Sleeve
An ace up the sleeve refers literally to a concealed card used to cheat, and figuratively to a hidden advantage.
Ace-to-Five
Ace-to-five is a way of ranking low poker hands: aces are low, and straights and flushes do not count against you.
Ace‑High
Ace-high is a hand with no pair or better whose highest card is an ace.
Acepots
Acepots is a form of high draw poker in which a player needs at least a pair of aces to open the betting.
Aces and Spaces
Aces and spaces is slang for a five-card hand whose only pair is aces, with three unhelpful cards.
Aces Full
Aces full is a full house made of three aces and a pair of another rank.
Aces Over
Aces over is poker slang for a hand built on aces, usually a full house of three aces and a pair.
Aces Up
Aces up is a two pair hand in which one of the pairs is aces.
Acey-Deucey
Acey-deucey is a poker nickname for two pair of aces and deuces, or for a starting hand of an ace and a deuce.
Acey‑Uppy
Acey-uppy is another name for aces up, a two pair hand in which one pair is aces.
Act
To act is to make a legal play on your turn: check, bet, call, raise or fold.
Action
Action is the betting in a hand, a player's turn to act, or a game with lots of betting.
Action Button
An action button is a marker that gives a player a forced bet in the next hand, as in seven-card stud hi-lo.
Action Only
Action only is a short all-in bet that can be called but does not reopen the betting for a raise.
Active Player
An active player is a player who is still in the hand and has not folded.
Add‑on
An add-on is an optional chip purchase offered at the end of a tournament's rebuy period.
Advantage
Advantage is another word for edge: being better than opponents because of skill, a stronger hand or a better position.
Advantage Player
An advantage player is someone who looks for an edge in a game.
Advantage Tool
An advantage tool is any device or method used to cheat, such as a marked card or a holdout machine.
Advertise
To advertise is to bluff or show a hand on purpose so opponents form a false impression of how you play.
AFAIK
AFAIK is chat shorthand for 'as far as I know'.
AFK
AFK is chat shorthand for 'away from keyboard'.
After‑Hours Game
An after-hours game is a private game played in a casino or card room after it has closed for the night.
Age
Age is an old term for the player immediately to the left of the dealer.
Agent
An agent is someone who helps cheaters, for example by partnering with them or luring another player into a crooked game.
Aggression
Aggression is a tendency to bet and raise rather than check or just call.
Aggressive
Aggressive describes a style of play with a lot of betting and raising instead of checking and calling.
Ahead
Ahead means leading: having the best hand now, being up in a session, or acting before another player.
Ainsworth
Ainsworth is a nickname for the starting hand 6-2 in hold'em, six-deuce.
Air
Air is a hand with no value, often used when bluffing.
Ajax
Ajax is a nickname for the starting hand Ace-Jack in hold'em.
Alcohol
Alcohol is a player's announcement that they will pay only the minimum needed to stay in the hand.
Alexander
Alexander is a nickname for the king of clubs.