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Post
To post is to put in a required bet, such as a blind or an ante. A player who has to post is making a forced bet.
Post‑Mortem
A post-mortem is a discussion or analysis of a hand or a game after it has ended. Players talk about what they did and what they could have done.
Postflop
Postflop is the stage of a hand after the flop has been dealt. It includes the flop, turn and river betting rounds.
Pot
The pot is the total of all the chips that players have bet in a hand. The winner of the hand takes it. In pot-limit games, saying 'pot' means that you bet the size of the pot.
Pot Committed
Being pot committed means that you have already put so many chips in the pot that folding is no longer sensible, because the pot is large compared with the chips you have left.
Pot Odds
Pot odds are the ratio between the size of the pot and the cost of a call. They tell you how often you must win to make the call profitable.
Pot-Limit
Pot-limit is a betting structure in which a player can bet or raise any amount up to the current size of the pot. The most popular pot-limit game is Omaha, known as PLO.
Potting Out
Potting out is an agreement with another player to take money out of a pot, often to buy food or drinks or to make side bets. It is done with the consent of the players.
Preflop
Preflop is the stage of a poker hand after the hole cards are dealt and before the flop. It is also the betting round that takes place before any community cards appear.
Preflop Caller
A preflop caller, or PFC, is any player who calls a raise before the flop instead of raising or folding. It is the opposite of the preflop raiser.
Preflop Raiser
The preflop raiser, or PFR, is the first player to raise before the flop. He usually has the initiative after the flop and often makes a continuation bet.
Premium Hands
Premium hands are the best starting hands in poker, such as pairs of aces, kings and queens, and ace-king. They have the highest potential to win the pot and are strong enough to play from any position.
Price
The price in poker is the amount that a player needs to call to stay in the hand. It is often used with pot odds, which compare the price with the pot.
Pricking
Pricking is a cheating technique in which a cheater marks cards with a fingernail or a device. The marks help him to recognize the cards later.
Probe Bet
A probe bet is a bet made out of position on the turn or river after the preflop raiser had the chance to make a continuation bet on the previous street but checked. It probes for weakness.
Prop
A prop, short for proposition bet, is a side bet that players make about outcomes that are independent of the actual outcome of the game.
Prop Bet
A prop bet is a side bet between players that has nothing to do with the poker game itself. It can be about anything, such as who can eat the most food, or who can run a certain distance.
Proposing Bets
Proposing bets are side bets between players that are not related to the outcome of the hand. They are bets on something else, such as a card or an event.
Proposition Player/Prop
A proposition player, or prop, is an employee of a gaming room whose main job is to play and help keep enough players at a table. He does not share in the wins or losses.
Protect
To protect is to bet with the aim of reducing the number of opponents who continue in the hand, and so increasing your chances to win. It protects a good hand from being outdrawn.
Protection Bet
A protection bet is a bet made with a strong but vulnerable hand to make opponents with draws fold or pay a high price. It protects your hand from being outdrawn.
Public Poker
Public poker is poker played in casinos or public card clubs, where the pots are cut for profit. The house takes a rake or time charge.
Punctuating
Punctuating is a cheater's technique of marking cards with a fingernail or a device. It is the same as pricking.
Punt
To punt is to lose chips through a reckless, self-inflicted play, such as an unnecessary bluff or a call that makes no sense. A punt is a big mistake and not just bad luck.
Puppy Feet/Pups
Puppy feet, or pups, is slang for clubs: a club flush, or the suit of clubs.
Push
To push is to bet all your chips, going all in. The word also describes a pot that is tied or split between players, so nobody wins more than their own bet.
Pushing Bets
Pushing bets is an agreement between players to return bets to each other when one of them wins a pot in which the other plays. It is also called saving bets and is a form of collusion.
Put Down
To put down is to fold a hand. The word is the same as lay down.
Putting on the Heat
Putting on the heat means to pressure the other players by betting aggressively.
Quadruplets
Quadruplets is another name for four of a kind, shortened to quads. It is four cards of the same rank.
Quads
Quads is a hand of four cards of the same rank, also called four of a kind. It beats a full house and loses only to a straight flush or a royal flush.
Qualifier
A qualifier is the minimum hand required to win a share of the pot in some games, most commonly the low half in high-low split games. It can also mean a player who has qualified for a tournament.
Quart
A quart is a four-card straight flush, four cards in sequence of the same suit.
Quartered
Quartered means that you win only a quarter of the pot in a hi-lo game, because you tie for one half of the pot with another player. For example, if you and another player share the nut low, each of you takes a quarter, while the high hand takes half.
Quint
A quint is a straight flush, five cards in sequence of the same suit. The word is old slang.
Quint Major
A quint major is a royal straight flush: ace, king, queen, jack and ten of the same suit. It is the best possible hand.
Quitting Time
Quitting time is an agreed time to end a poker game, also called a curfew. When the time comes, the game stops, often after the current hand or round.
Quorum
A quorum is the minimum number of players needed to start a poker game. If there are too few players, the game does not begin.
Rabbit Hunting
Rabbit hunting is looking through the undealt cards of the deck after a hand has ended, to see which cards would have come. Most casinos do not allow it.
Race
A race is a situation in which two players are all in with hands whose chances are close to even, such as a pair against two overcards. It is also called a coin flip.