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Walk
A walk is a hand in which everybody folds to the big blind, who wins the pot without a fight. The big blind does not have to do anything.
Walk the Table
To walk the table is to win the entire pot automatically with a certain card or hand, according to a special house rule. It is used in some home games.
Walking Sticks
Walking sticks is a nickname for a pair of sevens, because the sevens look like canes. It is used for the hand 7-7.
Wash
To wash the cards is to shuffle them by spreading them face down on the table and mixing them with the hands. It is done before the deck is shuffled normally.
Waving
Waving is a form of cheating in which the cheater bends or crimps cards so that the wavy card can be recognized in an opponent's hand or in the deck. It marks the cards without writing on them.
Wayne Gretzky
Wayne Gretzky is a nickname for a pair of nines, 9-9. It comes from the ice hockey player Wayne Gretzky, who wore the number 99.
Weak
A weak player is one who folds too many hands. He gives up too easily and loses money by not calling or raising when he should.
Weak Ace
A weak ace is an ace with a low kicker, such as ace-five or ace-three. It is a starting hand that has some value but often loses to better aces.
Weak Kicker
A weak kicker is a low side card that goes with a pair. For example, with a jack and a four on a board with a jack, you have a pair of jacks with a weak kicker, and you lose to anyone who holds a jack with a better card.
Weary Willie
“Weary Willie” is slang for pocket twos in blackjack slang, adopted to poker as low pair nickname.
Wedges
Wedges are tapered or shaved cards that a cheater can pull from a deck when needed. The cards are cut so that they feel different from the others.
Welcher
A welcher is a player who fails to pay a debt, especially a gambling debt. He loses a bet and does not pay.
Went to Showdown (WTSD)
Went to showdown, written WTSD, is a statistic that shows how often a player sees the showdown after seeing the flop. It reveals whether he plays hands to the end or folds a lot.
Wet
A wet board is a set of community cards that connect well with many hands, usually because they are suited or in sequence, so many draws are possible. The opposite is a dry board.
Wet Board
A wet board is a set of community cards that can make many strong hands and draws, usually because the cards are connected or suited. It leads to more action, since many players can have something.
Whale
A whale is a rich, weak player who gambles with large amounts of money and loses a lot. Other players are happy to see a whale at the table, since he plays loose and loses big pots.
Whangedoodle
A whangedoodle is a round of jackpots played after a big hand, such as four of a kind. It is a special round in some home games.
Wheel
The wheel is the straight A-2-3-4-5, the lowest possible straight, where the ace counts as a low card. In lowball and hi-lo games it is also the best possible low hand.
Whipsaw
To whipsaw is to bet and raise aggressively on both sides of a player who is calling, so that he is caught between two raisers. The squeezed player is in the middle and has to fold or call twice.
Whiskey Poker
Whiskey poker is a draw poker game that uses widow cards: an extra hand that can be exchanged for the cards in a player's hand. A player may take the widow instead of his own cards.
Whore
'Whore' is an old and offensive-sounding slang word for a queen in a deck of cards. It appears in old lists of poker slang, and it is not suitable for a polite table.
Widow
A widow is a card or cards that are common to all hands, such as a spit card, or the money that is cut from pots, also called the kitty. The meaning depends on the game.
Wild Annie
“Wild Annie” is slang for holding a wild card (joker) that completes a strong combination.
Wild Card
A wild card is a card that can be used as any rank, for example a joker. Games with wild cards, such as deuces wild, change the hand rankings, since a hand like five of a kind becomes possible.
Wild Game
A wild game is a game that uses wild cards, or a game that is very spirited and fast-paced, with a lot of action. The meaning depends on the context.
Wild Widow
A wild widow is a card that is turned face up and used as a wild card in every player's hand. All cards of the same rank are also wild, so the game changes on each deal.
Window
A window is a card that is exposed or flashed at the end of a player's closed hand. It is the card that you can see by accident.
Window Card
A window card is a card dealt face up. In stud, it means an upcard, and the first of them is called the door card. In Hold'em and Omaha, the window card is the first card of the flop that the dealer turns over.
Window Dressing
Window dressing is the act of purposely flashing a card from your closed hand, so that others can see it. A player does it to give a false impression of his hand.
Wing
To wing is to have a winning streak. A player who is winging has been winning for some time.
Winning Hand
A winning hand is a hand that gets paid. In video poker, it is a hand that pays according to the pay table. In most games, the lowest winning hand is a pair of jacks, and in deuces wild it is three of a kind.
Wired
Wired, also called back-to-back, is a pair, trips or four of a kind that is dealt consecutively, usually the first cards of a stud hand. The cards are of the same rank and came one after another.
Wired Pair
A wired pair is a pair in the hole. In five-card stud, it also means a door card that pairs the hole card.
Won Money at Showdown (W$SD)
Won money at showdown, written W$SD, is a statistic that shows how often a player wins the pot when he goes to showdown. A value above 50 percent means that he usually wins when he gets there.
Won When Saw Flop (WWSF)
Won when saw flop, written WWSF, is a statistic that shows how often a player wins the pot after seeing the flop. It combines hands won at showdown and hands won without a showdown.
Wooden Hand
A wooden hand is a hand that cannot improve or cannot possibly win. The name comes from deadwood, a term for discards.
Woolworth
Woolworth is a name for a ten-five hand, from the five-and-ten-cent store. In lowball, it is a 10-5 hand, in high poker two pair of tens and fives, and in hold'em a ten and a five as hole cards.
Woppitzer
A woppitzer is a pest who hangs around card games, usually with bad breath or body odor, and gives unwanted advice and comments about the play. He is the worst kind of kibitzer.
Work the Broads
To work the broads is slang for cheating at cards, particularly at three-card monte. The 'broads' are the cards.
Working the Telegraph
Working the telegraph is a way of cheating by sending prearranged signals about your hand to a partner, for example with finger positions or code words hidden in normal conversation.