rules
Out Button
An out button is a disc placed in front of a player who wants to sit out a hand or several hands but keep his seat in the game. It shows that he is away.
Overblind
An overblind is a blind that is larger than the normal big blind, usually posted by a player in a special situation, such as after winning a pot in a kill game. It raises the stakes of the hand.
Pineapple Hold’em
Pineapple Hold'em is a variant of Texas Hold'em in which each player gets three hole cards and must discard one, usually before the flop. After that, the game is played like Hold'em.
Play the Board
To play the board means that your best five-card hand is made entirely of the five community cards. Anyone else in the hand with the same board also plays it, so the pot is split unless somebody has a better hand.
Played Card
A played card is a card dealt to a hand. It is a card that has been put into play, rather than left in the deck.
Playing the Board
Playing the board means that your best five-card hand is made of the five community cards. Anyone who plays the board and nobody has a better hand splits the pot.
Poker
Poker is a family of card games in which players bet on the strength of their hands. The winner is the player with the best hand at showdown, or the last player left after the others fold.
Poker network
A poker network is a group of several poker rooms owned by the same company. The rooms share software and often share players.
Poker room
A poker room is a dedicated space in a casino or an online site where players can play different types of poker games.
Poker Rules
The rules of poker differ between games, but most share a structure: players receive cards, bet in rounds, and the best hand wins at showdown, or the last player left wins the pot.
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.
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-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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Rake
The rake is the commission that a casino or poker room takes from each pot in a cash game. In tournaments, the equivalent is the entry fee. It is how the house makes its money.
Razz
Razz is a form of seven-card stud in which the lowest hand wins. Aces are low, and straights and flushes do not count against you, so the best possible hand is A-2-3-4-5, called the wheel.
Re-buy
A re-buy is the amount of money that a player pays to add a fixed number of chips to his stack in a tournament. It is the same as a rebuy.
Re‑Entry
Re-entry is a tournament structure that lets a player who was eliminated pay the buy-in again and enter as a new player. Some events allow several re-entries.
Rebuy
A rebuy is a purchase of more chips in a tournament, allowed during the rebuy period. The player pays a fixed fee and receives a fixed number of chips, often when he is short or has been eliminated.
Redeal
A redeal is a new deal of the cards, usually after a misdeal. The dealer collects the cards and deals the hand again.
Ring Game
A ring game is another name for a cash game, a non-tournament game in which players can buy in and leave whenever they want. The chips have real money value.
River
The river is the fifth and last community card in Hold'em and Omaha, dealt after the turn betting. It is followed by the final betting round and a showdown. It is also called fifth street.
Rotation
Rotation is the movement in the direction of the deal, which is clockwise. The button, the action and the deal all rotate around the table.
Round of Betting
A round of betting is a period when players have the chance to bet, check, call or raise. It ends when the last bet or raise has been called, or when all players have checked.
Round of Play
A round of play is the action sequence in which every player deals a poker hand. In a game with a dealer button, it is one full orbit.
Satellite
A satellite is a tournament in which the prize is an entry into a larger, more expensive tournament, instead of money. It lets players win a seat for a much smaller cost.
Seat Position
Seat position is the position of a player relative to the other players, especially to the dealer button. It decides when you act.
Seating List
A seating list is a waiting list for a table. A player puts his name on it if there are no free seats at the game that he wants to play.