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Top Pair
Top pair is a pair made with a hole card and the highest card on the board. If the flop is J-8-5 and you hold a jack, you have top pair.
Top Pair/Medium Kicker (TPMK)
TPMK means top pair with a medium kicker: you pair the highest board card and your other card is decent, but not the best. For example, jack-ten on a J-2-3 flop.
Top Pair/Top Kicker (TPTK)
TPTK means top pair with the top kicker: you pair the highest board card and your other card is the best possible kicker. For example, ace-jack on a flop of J-2-3.
Top Pair/Weak Kicker (TPWK)
Top pair with a weak kicker, TPWK, is a pair of the highest board card with a low side card. It is a medium hand that can lose to the same pair with a better kicker.
Top Two
Top two is a two pair hand made with the two highest cards on the board. For example, on a flop of A-K-5, ace-king gives top two pair.
Top Two Pair
Top two pair means that both your pocket cards match the two highest cards on the board, so you have the best possible two pair.
Tough Player
A tough player is a superior poker player who is hard to beat. He plays well and makes few mistakes.
Tournament
A tournament is a poker competition in which every player pays a fixed buy-in, gets the same number of chips and plays until one player holds all the chips. The buy-in forms a prize pool that is paid to the best finishers.
Tournament Fee
A tournament fee, or house fee, is the part of a tournament buy-in that goes to the house instead of the prize pool. For example, in a $50+$5 tournament, the $5 is the fee.
TPMK
TPMK stands for top pair, medium kicker. You have a pair with the highest card on the board, together with a good but not top kicker.
TPTK
TPTK stands for top pair, top kicker. You have a pair with the highest card on the board, and your kicker is the best possible.
TPWK
TPWK means top pair with a weak kicker: you pair the highest card on the board, but your other card is low. It is a medium-strength hand that can lose to the same pair with a better kicker.
Trap
A trap is a play with a strong hand that looks weak, such as checking or calling, so that opponents will bet or bluff into you. It is another name for slow playing.
Trap Hand
A trap hand is a hand that looks strong but is weak compared with other possible hands, so it can lead to big losses. It is a hand that tempts you to put in too many chips.
Trapper
A trapper is a player who underbets a strong hand to create a larger pot. He uses checks and small bets to lure others in.
Treys
Treys is a nickname for a pair of threes, 3-3. A three is also called a trey, so a pair of threes is a pair of treys.
Triplets
Triplets is another name for three of a kind: three cards of the same rank.
Trips
Trips is three of a kind in which two of the three cards are on the board and only one is in your hand. If you hold a pair and the third card comes on the board, it is a set instead.
Trombones
Trombones is a nickname for seven-six, from the song '76 Trombones' in the musical The Music Man. It is used for the starting hand 7-6.
Turbo
A turbo is a tournament format in which the blinds go up faster than in a regular tournament, for example every 5 to 10 minutes. The event finishes sooner, and stacks become short quickly.
Turkish Pocket Aces
Turkish pocket aces is a nickname for a pair of eights in the hole, 8-8. The name comes from a story about the Turkish army, which was defeated while having an advantage of eight to one.
Turn
The turn is the fourth community card in Hold'em and Omaha, dealt face up after the flop betting round. It is also called fourth street. A round of betting follows it.
Turn C‑bet
A turn c-bet is a continuation bet on the turn: the player who raised before the flop and bet the flop bets again on the turn. It is sometimes called the second barrel.
Two Flush
A two flush is two cards of the same suit. In Hold'em, it is a suited starting hand or two cards of one suit on the board.
Two Pair
Two pair is a hand with two different pairs and a fifth card. It beats one pair and loses to three of a kind.
Two‑Gapper
A two-gapper is a starting hand with two missing ranks between the cards, so they are not connected. For example, J-8 is a two-gapper: the ten and the nine are missing.
Two‑Tone
A two-tone board is a board with exactly two different suits, so a flush draw is possible. On a two-tone flop, two cards are of one suit and the third is of another.
Two‑Way Hand
A two-way hand is a hand that has a chance to win both the high and the low halves in a split-pot game. It is a good hand in games such as Omaha hi-lo.
TY
TY is chat shorthand for 'thank you'. Players type it, for example, after a courtesy, such as a message of luck, or when another player gives them information about a rule.
UL
“UL” stands for “you’re welcome”—replying to TY in chat.
Uncle Doc
Uncle Doc is a form of five-card stud with a single spit or table card, and all cards of the same rank as that card are wild. It is a home-game variant.
Under the Gun (UTG)
Under the gun, written UTG, is the player who sits directly after the big blind and acts first before the flop. It is the earliest and weakest position, because every other player acts after you.
Undercut
Undercut has two meanings: the final down card being the lowest hole card in low-hole stud, and a shuffling technique used to prepare a stacked deck.
Underdog
An underdog is a hand or player with a lower chance to win than the opponent. If your hand wins 20 percent of the time against another, you are the underdog and the other is the favorite.
Underpair
An underpair is a pocket pair that is lower than every card on the board. For example, a pair of fives on a flop of K-9-2 is an underpair.
Underplay
To underplay a hand is to make a small bet with a strong hand, in the hope of drawing other players into the pot. You bet less than the hand deserves.
Union Oil
Union Oil is a nickname for a starting hand of seven and six, 7-6. It is named after the Union Oil Company, which used the number 76 in its logo.
Unlimited Poker
Unlimited poker is poker in which no limit is placed on bets or raises. A player can bet any amount up to the chips he has.
Up
'Up' is used in a two pair hand to name the higher pair. For example, queens up is two pair with queens as the higher pair, as in queens and tens.
Up Card
An up card is a card that is dealt face up. In stud games, each player has several up cards that the others can see.