hands
Tiger
Tiger is a name for a nonstandard poker hand used in some home games; its exact card requirements depend on the local rules.
Top and Bottom
Top and bottom is a two pair hand made of the highest and the lowest card on the board. For example, on a flop of A-9-4, holding ace-four gives you top and bottom pair.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Utah
Utah is another name for Cincinnati, a home poker game with five private cards and five shared table cards.
Vaca
Vaca, the Spanish word for cow, is used in poker rooms to ask another player to go half and half in a game. If a player says 'vaca' to a floor person or another player, it generally means, 'Do you want to share this game with me?'
Valet
Valet is another name for the jack. The word comes from French.
Valle Card
A valle card is any 3, 5 or 7. The word comes from the game of panguingue, in which these cards have a special value, which is what 'valle' means.
Walking Sticks
Walking sticks is a nickname for a pair of sevens, because the sevens look like canes. It is used for the hand 7-7.
Wayne Gretzky
Wayne Gretzky is a nickname for a pair of nines, 9-9. It comes from the ice hockey player Wayne Gretzky, who wore the number 99.