Poker: Glossary
Facecard: A king, queen, or jack.
Fixed Limit: In limit poker, any betting structure in which the amount of the bet on each particular round is pre-set.
Flashed Card: A card that is partially exposed.
Flop: In Hold’em or Omaha, the three community cards that are turned simultaneously after the first round of betting is complete.
Flush: A poker hand consisting of five cards of the same suit.
Fold: To throw a hand away and relinquish all interest in a pot.
Fourth Street: The second upcard in Seven-Card Stud or the first boardcard after the flop in Hold’em (also called the turn card).
Fouled Hand: A dead hand.
Forced Bet: A required wager to start the action on the first betting round (the normal way action begins in a stud game).
Full Buy: A buy-in of at least the minimum requirement of chips needed for a particular game.
Full House: A hand consisting of three of a kind and a pair.
Hand: All a player’s personal cards. The five cards determining the poker ranking. A single poker deal.
Heads-Up Play: Only two players involved in play.
Housecards: The cards dealt facedown to a player.
Insurance: A side agreement when someone is all-in for a player in a pot to put up money that guarantees a payoff of a set amount in case the opponent wins the pot.
Joker: The joker is a “partially wild card” in high draw poker and ace-to-five lowball. In high, it is used for aces, straights, and flushes. In lowball, the joker is the lowest unmatched rank in a hand.
Kicker: The highest unpaired card that helps determine the value of a five-card poker hand.
Kill or Kill Blind: An oversize blind, usually twice the size of the big blind and doubling the limit. Sometimes a “half-kill” increasing the blind and limits by fifty percent is used. A kill can be either voluntary or mandatory. The most common requirements of a mandatory kill are for winning two pots in a row at lowball and other games, or for scooping a pot in high-low split.
Kill Button: A button used in a lowball game to indicate a player who has won two pots in a row and is required to kill the pot.
Kill Pot: A pot with a forced kill by the winner of the two previous pots, or the winner of an entire pot of sufficient size in a high-low split game. (Some pots can be voluntarily killed.)
Leg Up: Being in a situation equivalent to having won the previous pot, and thus liable to have to kill the following pot if you win the current pot.
Lock-Up: A chip marker that holds a seat for a player.
Lowcard: The lowest upcard at seven-card stud, which is required to bet.
Miscall: An incorrect verbal declaration of the ranking of a hand.
Misdeal: A mistake on the dealing of a hand which causes the cards to be reshuffled and a new hand to be dealt.
Missed Blind: A required bet that is not posted when it is your turn to do so.
Muck: The pile of discards gathered facedown in the center of the table by the dealer. To discard a hand.
Must-Move: In order to protect the main game, a situation where the players of a second game must move into the first game as openings occur.
No-Limit: A betting structure where players are allowed to wager any or all of their chips in one bet.