equipment
Action Button
An action button is a marker that gives a player a forced bet in the next hand, as in seven-card stud hi-lo.
Advantage Tool
An advantage tool is any device or method used to cheat, such as a marked card or a holdout machine.
Ammo
Ammo is a synonym for chips.
Ammunition
Ammunition is a synonym for chips.
Ante Bean
An ante bean is an ante, or a chip used to ante.
Bot
A bot is software that plays online poker automatically.
Boxed Card
A boxed card is a card found face up in the assembled deck during the deal.
Brush
A brush is a poker room employee who handles seating, chips and lists of waiting players.
Buck
Buck is an old name for the button.
Burn
To burn a card is to discard the top card of the deck before dealing.
Burn Card
A burn card is a card discarded face down from the top of the deck before community cards are dealt.
Bury Card
A bury card is a card taken from the top of the deck and placed in the middle.
C-Note
A C-note is a hundred-dollar bill.
Card Protector
A card protector is an item placed on your cards to keep them from being thrown away by mistake.
Cardroom
A cardroom is a venue, or part of one, where poker is played.
Case Chips
Case chips are a player's last chips.
Chip
A chip is a round token used in place of cash at a gaming table.
Color Change
A color change is a request to exchange chips from one denomination to another.
Cut-Card
The cut card is a stiff plastic card held against the bottom of the deck during the deal, so that the bottom card cannot be seen.
Dealer
The dealer is the person who deals the cards, or the player in the dealer position who acts last in betting.
Dealer’s Button
The dealer's button is a flat disk that shows which player holds the dealer position.
Deck
A deck is a set of playing cards: 52 cards in most poker games, or 53 with a joker.
Dirty Stack
A dirty stack is a stack of chips that contains a chip of a different denomination.
Down to the Green
Down to the green means being all in: your chips are gone from the felt.
Floor
The floor is the poker room staff member who makes rulings, and the term also refers to the ruling officials in general.
Floorman
A floorman is a casino or poker room employee who oversees the games, enforces the rules and resolves disputes. Players call him over when there is a dispute.
Four‑Color Deck
A four-color deck is similar to a standard deck, but each of the four suits has a different color. Usually hearts are red, spades are black, clubs are green and diamonds are blue.
Grand
A grand is a thousand dollars, or a thousand units of another currency.
Heads‑Up Display (HUD)
A heads-up display, or HUD, is software that shows statistics about your opponents on the table in real time while you play online poker. The numbers come from hand histories and show how often a player raises, folds and calls.
HM2
HM2 is short for Hold'em Manager 2, a poker software program that records hand histories and shows statistics about your own play and your opponents'. It also provides a heads-up display for online play.
Hold’em Manager
Hold'em Manager is a poker software program that stores hand histories from online games and shows statistics about your play and your opponents'. It is one of the most widely used tracking programs.
Index
An index is the number or letter printed on the corner of a card. A cheater can also add an index, which is a mark on the edge of a card.