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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.
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.
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 another name for Double-Barreled Shotgun, a home poker game combining drawing cards with a gradual face-up reveal.
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.
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.
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.
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.
World’s Fair
World's Fair is slang for the nuts, the best possible hand. The phrase comes from a warning that is given about a player who has a way of showing the best hand at the right time.
Worst Hand
The worst hand is a losing hand. In general, it means the weakest hand in a showdown, or the weakest hand that you can put another player on.
WP
WP is chat shorthand for 'well played'. A player types it to praise a good play, such as a clever fold or a well-timed bluff.
X Marks the Spot
X Marks the Spot is a home poker game with five private cards per player and five shared cards arranged in a cross. It is also known as criss-cross.
Yard
Yard is slang for $100, or a $100 bill. It is used mostly in casino and gambling talk.
Yeast
Yeast is slang for a raise. A player who says 'Let's give it a little yeast' means that he raises.
YGHN
YGHN is shorthand for 'you go home now', a taunt said or written to a player who has just lost a hand, usually to a lucky card. It implies that the speaker beat a good hand, probably by a long shot.
Yo
Yo is the short form of 'yoleven', the word for 11, used in craps and sometimes in betting talk. It is said so that the number is not confused with seven.
Yoleven
Yoleven is the slang word for the number 11 used for the size of a bet. It comes from craps, where dealers say it loudly so that it is not confused with seven.
You Roll Two
You Roll Two is a home-game stud variant in which each player starts with four face-down cards and chooses two to turn face up.
Younger Hand
Younger hand is an obsolete term for any player to the left of the eldest hand, which is the player directly to the left of the dealer. It describes the order of play in old card games.
Youngest Hand
Youngest hand is an obsolete term for the player immediately to the right of the dealer. In older games, it was the last player in the order.
Zilch or Zip
Zilch or zip means nothing. In draw poker, it is a dealt hand with no cards worth keeping, so that you should draw all five cards. It can also be a final hand with no value or payoff.