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Vaca
Vaca, the Spanish word for cow, is used in poker rooms to ask another player to go half and half in a game. If a player says 'vaca' to a floor person or another player, it generally means, 'Do you want to share this game with me?'
Valet
Valet is another name for the jack. The word comes from French.
Valle Card
A valle card is any 3, 5 or 7. The word comes from the game of panguingue, in which these cards have a special value, which is what 'valle' means.
Value
Value, in 'a bet for value', means that you want your opponents to call your bet, because you expect to have the best hand. It is the opposite of a bluff.
Value Bet
A value bet is a bet that you make with a hand that you expect to be best, so that a worse hand will call it. The aim is to win more chips from weaker hands.
Value Cutting
Value cutting is betting for value with a hand you believe is best, and being called or raised only by a stronger hand. You cut the value of your own bet, because only better hands pay.
Variance
Variance is the natural up-and-down movement of your results around the average you expect over time. Even a winning player has losing days, weeks and months, because the cards are random.
Verbal Bet
A verbal bet is an oral bet: a bet that a player announces with words instead of putting chips in the pot.
Verbal Declaration
A verbal declaration is something you say out loud about your action, such as 'raise' or 'call'. In live poker, it is binding, so you cannot change your mind after saying it.
Vest Holdout
A vest holdout is a type of holdout machine worn under a thief's coat, also called breastworks. It lets a cheater hide cards and slip them into play.
Victory Rip
A victory rip, also called a victory roll, is the act of spreading your hand face up in a triumphant way at the showdown in a draw game. The player shows his cards with a flourish to show that he has won.
Victory Roll
Victory roll is another name for victory rip: spreading your winning hand face up with a flourish at the showdown.
Video Poker
Video poker is a casino game played on a computerized machine, based on draw poker, in which you try to make certain poker hands and are paid according to a pay table. It is not played against other players.
Video Poker Machine
A video poker machine is a computerized slot machine based on draw poker, with card symbols, on which players try to make certain poker hands. It is not really a form of poker, since you play against the machine.
Vig
Vig is short for vigorish, the commission the house takes from a game. In poker, the vig is the rake taken from each pot or the time fee, since the house does not play in the hand.
Vigorish
Vigorish is the house's take in a bet or game. In poker, it is the rake or time charge, since the house does not play in the hand.
Villain
Villain is the name for the opponent in a hand that is being discussed. The player who tells the story is the hero. The word comes from hand histories posted on forums.
Visible Cards
Visible cards are cards that are dealt face up to each player. In games like stud, players can see them and use them to complete a five-card hand.
Voluntarily Put Money In Pot (VPIP)
VPIP, voluntarily put money in pot, is the percentage of hands in which a player puts chips into the pot by choice before the flop. Posting a blind does not count. It shows how loose or tight a player is.