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Multi-Table Tournament
A multi-table tournament is a tournament with more than one table. As players are knocked out, tables are broken down and players are moved until only one table remains. It is often shortened to MTT.
Multi‑way Pot
A multi-way pot is a pot with three or more players. It is the opposite of a heads-up pot. It is also called a family pot when many players take part.
Must-Move
Must-move is a rule in some card rooms: to protect the main game, the players of a second game must move into the first game when seats open there.
Nailing
Nailing is a cheater's technique of marking cards with a fingernail or a device. It is the same as pricking, pegging and punctuating.
Nash Equilibrium
Nash equilibrium is a set of strategies in which no player can improve his result by changing his own strategy, if the others keep theirs. In poker, a Nash equilibrium strategy is one that cannot be exploited by the opponent.
Natural
A natural is a hand without wild cards. In games with wild cards, a natural hand beats an equal hand that uses wild cards.
Neocheater
A neocheater is a player who wins by neocheating: simple, invisible and highly effective cheating techniques.
Neocheating
Neocheating means simple, invisible and highly effective cheating techniques. It is a modern form of cheating that is hard to see.
New Guinea Stud
New Guinea stud is a form of seven-card stud that starts with four down cards, followed by turning up or rolling any two of them. It is a home-game variant.
New York Stud
New York stud is a form of five-card stud in which a four flush beats a pair. It is a home-game variant with a changed ranking of hands.
New-Breed Player
A new-breed player is an advanced-concept player in public or casino poker. He uses modern strategy and understanding of concepts, such as ranges and position.
Newlyweds
Newlyweds is a nickname for king-queen, K-Q, of any suits. The king and the queen are like a married couple.
NFD
NFD stands for nut flush draw, a draw to the best possible flush. For example, with the ace of spades and another spade on a board with two spades, you have the nut flush draw.
NH
NH is chat shorthand for 'nice hand'. A player types it to congratulate an opponent who won a pot with a good hand or played it well.
Nickel
A nickel is five dollars, usually a red casino chip. It is gambling slang for a $5 chip.
Nickel-Dime
Nickel-dime is a small-stake game. The name is based on the nickel and the dime, small coins.
Nit
A nit is a very tight player who only plays premium hands and avoids risk. He folds most of his hands, and when he bets or raises, he usually has a strong hand.
Nits and Lice
Nits and lice means two pair or a full house of deuces and threes, also called mites and lice. It can also mean a game in which deuces and threes are wild.
No Limit Hold’em Table St
In no-limit hold'em table stakes, any player can bet any or all of his chips at any time. He cannot bet money that is not on the table.
No‑Limit
No-limit is a betting structure in which a player may bet any amount of chips he has at any time, up to his whole stack. It is the most popular form of Texas Hold'em.
Northern Flight
Northern Flight is seven-card stud in which all hearts are wild, unless a spade is in the hand.
Nosebleed
Nosebleed stakes are the very highest stakes in poker, where games are played for huge amounts of money. A nosebleed game is one in which most people would feel dizzy about the size of the bets.
Nucleus Players
Nucleus players are the dependable, regular players who keep a game going. A card room relies on them to fill the tables.
Nursing
Nursing means playing conservatively because you are losing and have only a few chips left. You try to make the stack last.
Nut
The nut, or the nuts, is the best possible hand on the board at that moment. A player with the nuts cannot be beaten, unless the board changes.
Nut Advantage
Nut advantage is a situation in which one player is more likely than the other to hold the strongest hands on a board. It is one of the three main types of advantage in a hand, alongside positional advantage and range advantage.
Nut Flush
A nut flush is the highest possible flush on the board. It usually includes the ace of the suit, and nobody can have a higher flush.
Nut Flush Draw
A nut flush draw is four cards of one suit including the ace, needing one more card of that suit to make the highest possible flush.
Nut Low
The nut low is the best possible low hand in a high-low split game. In most games it is the wheel, A-2-3-4-5, and in deuce-to-seven lowball it is 7-5-4-3-2.
Nuts
The nuts is the best possible hand at that moment, given the board. A player who has the nuts cannot be beaten, unless a new card changes the board. The word is also used for the best hand of a type, such as the nut flush.
Odds
Odds are the likelihood of an event, often written as a ratio. In poker, they are used to decide whether a call, fold or raise is profitable.
Odds Against
Odds against are the number of failures for each success. If something has odds of 4 to 1 against, it fails four times for every time it succeeds.
Odds For
Odds for are the number of attempts per success. If the odds for an event are 5 to 1, it happens once in five attempts.
Odds On
Odds on describes a situation in which an event is more likely to happen than not. A favorite is said to be odds on.
Offsuit (o)
Offsuit means that two cards are of different suits. In Hold'em, an offsuit starting hand has hole cards of different suits, and is a little weaker than the same hand suited. In notation, it is written with an 'o', such as AKo.
Omaha
Omaha is a poker game similar to Hold'em in which each player gets four hole cards and must use exactly two of them with exactly three of the five community cards. The most popular forms are pot-limit Omaha and Omaha hi-lo.
On the Button
On the button means being in the dealer position, the player who acts last after the flop. The button marks this seat and moves clockwise after each hand.
On The Come
On the come means that a player does not yet have a complete hand, such as when he holds a drawing hand. He is betting or calling on the come, in the hope of completing it.
On Tilt
On tilt describes a player whose emotions harm his play, often after a bad beat or a series of losses. He plays worse than usual, often with too much aggression.
One Time
'One time' is a plea that players say aloud when they need a specific card to come, as in 'one time!' on the river. It is a way of asking for luck, rather than a play or a rule.