Some poker terminologies you may want to know

[Youngkhngdiddy]

 Poker is a different kind of card game used mostly in casinos for gambling and unlike other gambling games it requires one to be very skillful, it's a game that needs more of skills than luck and to win and earn money, you ough to be the best at the game. In poker they call it bluffing your opponet or winning the best hand, there are other poker terminologies you may want to know, such as
Tilt - to play wild or recklessly.
Bad Beat - it's a term for badluck in poker.
Trips- When three cards looks similar it's called trips.
Quads - four cards of a kind.
Overcard - a card that's higher than any other on the board.
Acton- Action refers to a plays turn to play.
Hand - it's a set of 5 playing cards.
Ante- it I'd the minimum amount of action that's allowed to participate in a hand.
Belly Buster- a term used for inside straight draw or otherwise called gutshot
Big Blinds - It's used as a measurement of stack sizes and bet sizes in poker.
Ammo - When you’re out of ammo, it means you no longer have chips.
Arsenal - it's a term that's used to describe a players skills and style of play.
Brick- Used to describe a card that doesn’t complete any possible draws and is of no relevance to a current hand.
Pot - The pot is a sum of money that players wager during a game or single hand.
BloodBath - it is Sometimes used by poker commentators to describe a situation where two or more players are about to get involved in a huge pot.
Computer Hand - it is A nickname for the starting hand Q7o.
Cowboys - it is a nickname for pocket kings (KK) that’s used by both players and poker commentators.
Dolly Paton - Nickname for any starting hand combo containing a 9 and a 5, the name originates from the famous song “9 to 5” performed by Dolly Parton. You might also hear it being called a “full-time job”.
Donkey - someone who's not very good in playing poker is referred to as a donkey.
Fist Pump - it is a motion used to celebrate winning a pot or another positive outcome at a table.
Dirty Stack - Describes a chip stack that contains a random number of different denomination chips, all mixed together.
Grappers - The term “gapper” is used to describe hole cards that have the potential to make straights (connectors).
GG - it is an abbreviation of a good game, often used online to express gratitude for a good match, it can also be used ironically to make fun of weaker players or when someone makes a very bad play.
Hero - It refers to the player whose hand is being reviewed or the one you are focusing on.
Cooler - it's a situation where both players have a very strong hand and no matter how they play it, all of their money is likely to end up in the middle of the pot.
Chip Dumping - A practice that’s only found in poker tournaments and is when one player intentionally loses to another player to transfer chips from one stack to another.
Cardrack - it is used to describe a player who’s been getting dealt good hands for the entire session or a tournament.
Doomswitch - A term used to describe a player running poorly and on the wrong side of variance.
High Society - it refers to the stack of the highest denomination chips available in the casino.

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 Poker is a very interesting game and quite easy to understand and the player with the highest card of 5 scores wins, it's said to be more easier than chess game and the more you play the more skillful you get when you understand the rules and it's terminologies, there are many here that might love poker game, you can drop more poker terms if you know any.
You'll notice that most poker terms are related with military terms however some experts might think it was originated from the military, though i dont take that as a fact

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[CryptSafe]

A good initiative by you OP. This will help people know some useful terms when they hear it and moreover one can make him or herself familiar with it early enough to not be taken unawares when such is mentioned to their hearing.

Terminology matters in every field of life so getting acquainted with it would help ease some stress of communication and make one fast in adapting to the system in which they find themselves. You have done well OP and I will suggest you keep updating the list as time goes on because I believe there are more that are not yet on the list.

[Gozie51]

There is a poker term that reminds me of the bitcoin term sounding like hodl but it is called fold. I think it is common and could come tops in the list of those you have listed outrightly. Fold indicates when a player surrenders his card. You can surrender it verbally or by simply giving it up.

[Blitzboy]

To dismiss luck as irrelevant and declare poker purely a game of skill would be overstating the case. Both chance and skill are essential to the outcome of any game, including poker. While a more seasoned player has a statistical edge, the luck of the draw can always swing the game in another player's favour.

The analogy to chess is, well, not perfect. In a game of chess, all of your opponent's pieces and their prospective actions are completely visible to you, while in a game of poker, certain information is concealed from you. Because of this, bluffing becomes an essential part of the game of poker. Therefore, it is more of a subjective than objective comparison to say that poker is easier than chess.

[Johnyz]

This is a good thread for those who wants to learn Poker or still confused about the terminologies or the jargon being used by the poker players.

I honestly don't know the other words though I'm already playing poker, its good to learn this one.

This is indeed a great game in gambling, it requires analysis as well and its possible to win here all you have to do is create your strategy on how to deal and learning this can be a big help.

[goldkingcoiner]

To dismiss luck as irrelevant and declare poker purely a game of skill would be overstating the case. Both chance and skill are essential to the outcome of any game, including poker. While a more seasoned player has a statistical edge, the luck of the draw can always swing the game in another player's favour.

The analogy to chess is, well, not perfect. In a game of chess, all of your opponent's pieces and their prospective actions are completely visible to you, while in a game of poker, certain information is concealed from you. Because of this, bluffing becomes an essential part of the game of poker. Therefore, it is more of a subjective than objective comparison to say that poker is easier than chess.

I completely agree with you! I think that when poker is played in person, it is less of a game of luck and more of a game of trying to spot the bluffer. This is easier because you can tell by emotions and facial features or even the tone of voice. But online poker is quite different, there is no face to look at and nobody except perhaps a username to judge. The online version is basically a game of pure luck, I would therefore say.

One of the reasons why I do not like to play online poker, really...

But there are live webcam versions, I think. Not that I have seen many of those, though.

[Hispo]

Even though I like poker and have played it a handful of times, I admit that I had not heard about this terminology. Perhaps, it is because those are used more frequently in the English speaking parts of the world, while here in South America it is easier to come up with our own things when comes to playing cards. The game of Truco is a very good example of it.

Anyways, thanks to OP for taking the initiative.

[Odusko]

There is a poker term that reminds me of the bitcoin term sounding like hodl but it is called fold. I think it is common and could come tops in the list of those you have listed outrightly. Fold indicates when a player surrenders his card. You can surrender it verbally or by simply giving it up.

funny really that need to make top of the list, because it is a popular and most used feature in poker playing, but then if I am not mistaking hold means suspending your opponent in the tournament to have a pause for you to make your next move, most especially when you have a certain card number, just like making the warning of a last card in the games some time we also use this feature in our traditional poker games.

[OgNasty]

Nice information. I wasn’t familiar with all of the terms you listed, which isn’t that surprising since I don’t play poker all that much except for in person fun with friends. I’m used to more well known terms like Double Down or Insurance. However, the term I think most people are chasing these days is Rakeback, which I guess isn’t a strictly poker term.

[yahoo62278]

You are missing some other terms such as Royal Flush, small blind, UTG(under the gun), Cutoff, or straight flush. Probably a whole lot more terms that could be put here as well. I play poker frequently and could talk all day about the game. I will tell you that just knowing some of the terms will not completely make you understand the game. As you say it's like a chess match. You gotta know your opponents, tell a story with your bets, and make the other players believe that story.

[famososMuertos]

OP: It is jargon associated with the game but it is not strategy terminology such as squeeze, among others, there are terms that help you understand what is being said at a table, offline Or online.

Poker just like chess has its nomenclature for example 1.d4 d5 2.c4 dxc4 is an easy reading to understand, then you to understand chess without going to a chess board, In poker, by understanding the language, you can also understand the existing documentation without watching the game.

On the other hand, the belief that poker refers only to the 5-card game, or NLH, it is a badbeat ( lol, sorry ) , in reality there are so many variants of poker, maybe it some little known:
Omaha hold 'em, Omaha h/l, Badugi, Seven card stud, Razz, Caribbean, etc.

[iv4n]

Tilt - to play wild or recklessly.

Tilt is more than playing wild and recklessly... I would say that "tilt" is when we lose control completely. It happens after making a few or more bad decisions. When we keep losing hand after hand and when nothing is working... So we start making irrational moves due to that frustration and anger, going all ins on any game at any odds. I had some good recoveries after "tilting", but many more times I suffered more significant losses... So "tilting" is really bad, when we let our bad emotions take full control most of the time it ends up badly!

[Wapfika]

Nice information. I wasn’t familiar with all of the terms you listed, which isn’t that surprising since I don’t play poker all that much except for in person fun with friends. I’m used to more well known terms like Double Down or Insurance. However, the term I think most people are chasing these days is Rakeback, which I guess isn’t a strictly poker term.

I believe Insurance and Double down are terms used for Blackjack and not on Poker since there’s no insurance feature available on poker while raise is the normal term use when increasing the bet instead of double which is just x2 of the base bet on Blackjack. Rakeback is the most used terms in crypto but I think everybody here is already familiar on it since every casino provides it’s definition for their bonus program.

The OP terminology is more on the specifics of Poker which non poker player will not understand since most of them is just the name for the cards and bets terminology.

[Gozie51]

There is a poker term that reminds me of the bitcoin term sounding like hodl but it is called fold. I think it is common and could come tops in the list of those you have listed outrightly. Fold indicates when a player surrenders his card. You can surrender it verbally or by simply giving it up.

funny really that need to make top of the list, because it is a popular and most used feature in poker playing, but then if I am not mistaking hold means suspending your opponent in the tournament to have a pause for you to make your next move, most especially when you have a certain card number, just like making the warning of a last card in the games some time we also use this feature in our traditional poker games.

Oh... I used the word hodl not hold like you interpreted it or understood it. Hodl is also a term used in bitcoin or cryptocurrency to mean to keep your coin for the main time and especially in expectation of bull run in the future. So I tried to compare the sound to fold as it is in poker terminology. Well after all fold , hodl and hold are having some d sound.

[seoincorporation]

Your list isn't bad at all but it's too short because there are a lot of poker terms, and for those who are curious about this topic I will leave the reference for the full list of terms

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary_of_poker_terms

There we can find some weird terms like:

angle shooting
    Intentionally using an angle to exploit an opponent such as obscuring the size of their chip stack or acting out of turn. See acting out of turn.

bleed
    To consistently lose chips through bad play, possibly resulting from tilting

bully
    A player who raises frequently to force out more cautious players, especially one with a large stack for the size of the game

coffee housing
    Talking in an attempt to mislead other players about the strength of a hand. This is also called speech play.

And some others, I really recommend reading the full list of terms to get familiarized with them if you enjoy that game.

[Youngkhngdiddy]

You are missing some other terms such as Royal Flush, small blind, UTG(under the gun), Cutoff, or straight flush. Probably a whole lot more terms that could be put here as well. I play poker frequently and could talk all day about the game. I will tell you that just knowing some of the terms will not completely make you understand the game. As you say it's like a chess match. You gotta know your opponents, tell a story with your bets, and make the other players believe that story.

Yeah i think I'll have to update my post by listing more terms that people who are interested in learning to play the game understand it better, because asides from the gambling benefits of poker it has many other intellectual benefits like,
keeping your brain active.
inprove your skill of judgement.
helps you deal with decisions like for instance, when under pressure.
also like you said you gotta know your opponent, so it helps you in reading people.

 However since you're very familiar with the game, and with your statement I believe you have a very broad knowledge about it so I'll appreciate if you explain the above terminologies you mentioned to help poker newbies reading this thread to understand better.

[serjent05]

Good list of terminology @OP but sadly knowing this terminology does not increase the chance of winning in poker since it is more on a strategy kind of a game where player can use bluff to make the opponent to fold.  Honestly, I never knew that there are lots of poker terms and what @OP given is just very few of the lists of poker terminology, especially when we visit  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary_of_poker_terms.

[dothebeats]

I watch WSOP just for the lulz and there are some terminologies out there that I don't know the meaning of that I found here. It's not entertaining to watch something then they spew out terminologies you don't understand, and then you will take the time to search for it only to find out that something happened and you miss it. I always wondered if what I thought of Bloodbath is right, that people will get involved in a crazy turnaround or just get busted in the process. Turns out I was right with what I was thinking for once.

Thanks for this, OP. I never play poker, but I do love watching how these people can be so calm in the middle of a tense moment wherein they can literally lose all of their money in one go.

[Chikito]

Poker is a different kind of card game used mostly in casinos for gambling and unlike other gambling games it's requires to be very skillful, it's a game that needs more of skills than luck and to win and earn money, you ough to be the best at the game. In poker they call it bluffing your opponet or winning the best hand, there are other poker terminologies you may want to know, such as

As the player, we should know all the things to use it as the bluff strategy, like : vigorish, tank, suited and etc [1]. I just know a few because I don't really like to play poker. because I always get easily hooked when the opponent try provoke my emotions. I agree with you, Poker is not just a luck, but a skill, even if a professional player has a bad card, he can win it if have ability to control his emotion and have acting skills on the table.

[1]. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary_of_poker_terms

[rhomelmabini]

Actually I heard these terminologies whenever I play poker but never know on what it was, especially the other terminologies that are new to me. We often heard of the word "ante", "big/small blind" and pot whenever we play on the table but the other terminologies surely came from your opponents or other players or often if we watch it on TV. Thanks for this list OP.