Some poker terminologies you may want to know

[Bureau]

I know Poker requires a lot of patience and a straight face to win. I also know without skills it is impossible to win a poker game. I never played the game but has be always fascinated by it. The reason being it is most shown card games in movies & series. I was not aware of so many terms being used to play this game. Looks like it will take time for me to understand this list. Anyways the list looks good and interesting.

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[piebeyb]

I know Poker requires a lot of patience and a straight face to win. I also know without skills it is impossible to win a poker game. I never played the game but has be always fascinated by it. The reason being it is most shown card games in movies & series. I was not aware of so many terms being used to play this game. Looks like it will take time for me to understand this list. Anyways the list looks good and interesting.

You can actually still learn the terms and even play the game too it's not difficult the game of poker is very easy to play you can test the game on other online poker platforms there are many out there to learn it you might need a few days to know which cards are good and which ones bad cards in the game so you can win against other people, in the game of poker you need a little skill, the rest is also needed luck.

A good card is actually just a formality, the rest is playing bluffing which is the main thing used by poker players when opponents are afraid of losing and closing the game, that's why playing poker can win it easily using courage in playing is very important you don't have to be good at gambling and also understand about poker completely.

[Cling18]

I know Poker requires a lot of patience and a straight face to win. I also know without skills it is impossible to win a poker game. I never played the game but has be always fascinated by it. The reason being it is most shown card games in movies & series. I was not aware of so many terms being used to play this game. Looks like it will take time for me to understand this list. Anyways the list looks good and interesting.

You can actually still learn the terms and even play the game too it's not difficult the game of poker is very easy to play you can test the game on other online poker platforms there are many out there to learn it you might need a few days to know which cards are good and which ones bad cards in the game so you can win against other people, in the game of poker you need a little skill, the rest is also needed luck.

A good card is actually just a formality, the rest is playing bluffing which is the main thing used by poker players when opponents are afraid of losing and closing the game, that's why playing poker can win it easily using courage in playing is very important you don't have to be good at gambling and also understand about poker completely.

Been playing poker for quite a long time now but to be honest, I'm still surprised with some of the terminologies provided by Op. Another information has been added and I have realized that there are still a lot more to learn.
Truly, crypto gambling is too broad and if we'll seek eagerly and earnestly, we will be able to adopt and learn more things that we never thought we could still learn. I thought poker is just about strategy but hearing these terms have also made me realized that it's also an emotional game. We have to be strategic to read the emotions of our opponent which I think makes the game more exciting.

[slapper]

I agree with you that poker needs skill to be able to win. However, the factor that in my opinion also accounts for 50% to help you win is luck, you are lucky to have better and stronger cards than your opponent's cards, your chances of winning will be higher. If you have a good skill and good luck, that's great.

That's obvious. Without skill, you will only experience defeat. Perhaps, luck still plays a role in winning the game of poker, but we also have to have skills in playing poker, including how we can bully opposing players. I've seen someone play poker convincingly even though, after one round, it turned out that the cards weren't that good. I also don't understand where it's not good because I don't really understand the poker game. Perhaps, that person can bully other players by convincing them that he has very good cards.

You may call it bullying, but it's really just a standard move in the poker dance. Like a chess player using a shrewd move to corner their opponent, it's a tactic utilized by gamers to acquire an advantage over them. This is just how the game is played, pal

In your comment, I detect some hesitance and perhaps some confusion regarding poker. We can all empathize since we've been there, too! The rules may appear as complicated as a Rubik's cube, but with enough exercise, you'll begin to see the matrix. Also, one can never tell. Maybe you'll emerge as the next great poker player

[Poker Player]

I agree with you that poker needs skill to be able to win. However, the factor that in my opinion also accounts for 50% to help you win is luck, you are lucky to have better and stronger cards than your opponent's cards, your chances of winning will be higher. If you have a good skill and good luck, that's great.

That's obvious. Without skill, you will only experience defeat. Perhaps, luck still plays a role in winning the game of poker, but we also have to have skills in playing poker, including how we can bully opposing players. I've seen someone play poker convincingly even though, after one round, it turned out that the cards weren't that good. I also don't understand where it's not good because I don't really understand the poker game. Perhaps, that person can bully other players by convincing them that he has very good cards.

You may call it bullying, but it's really just a standard move in the poker dance.

The two who have commented before you are clueless. Luck is only important in poker in the short term. maydna even seems to have invented a neologism, as I don't recall ever hearing that term, bullying, applied to poker. The situation he describes we call bluffing, not bullying. And bluffing can go wrong, you can get caught. Would I still call it bullying then? I don't think so.

[maydna]

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You may call it bullying, but it's really just a standard move in the poker dance. Like a chess player using a shrewd move to corner their opponent, it's a tactic utilized by gamers to acquire an advantage over them. This is just how the game is played, pal

In your comment, I detect some hesitance and perhaps some confusion regarding poker. We can all empathize since we've been there, too! The rules may appear as complicated as a Rubik's cube, but with enough exercise, you'll begin to see the matrix. Also, one can never tell. Maybe you'll emerge as the next great poker player

This intimidation really works for an experienced poker player because he knows how to play the psychology of other players. And if he meets an opponent who is still inexperienced, he will have no trouble bluffing his opponent so that his opponent will lose confidence and think that person has a very good card.

I don't really understand the game of poker, so maybe that's what you see if there is some hesitation and confusion about poker. But I think that's normal because, in my opinion, playing poker requires more skills which I may be less able to understand than slot games which are very easy to understand

[Yatsan]

I agree with you that poker needs skill to be able to win. However, the factor that in my opinion also accounts for 50% to help you win is luck, you are lucky to have better and stronger cards than your opponent's cards, your chances of winning will be higher. If you have a good skill and good luck, that's great.

That's obvious. Without skill, you will only experience defeat. Perhaps, luck still plays a role in winning the game of poker, but we also have to have skills in playing poker, including how we can bully opposing players. I've seen someone play poker convincingly even though, after one round, it turned out that the cards weren't that good. I also don't understand where it's not good because I don't really understand the poker game. Perhaps, that person can bully other players by convincing them that he has very good cards.

You may call it bullying, but it's really just a standard move in the poker dance.

The two who have commented before you are clueless. Luck is only important in poker in the short term. maydna even seems to have invented a neologism, as I don't recall ever hearing that term, bullying, applied to poker. The situation he describes we call bluffing, not bullying. And bluffing can go wrong, you can get caught. Would I still call it bullying then? I don't think so.

Well in some casinos, they really call it bullying bit indeed with gambling context it should be bluffing. Maybe it is because of the act with slight of intimidation towards the opponents. However this only works with amateur players. Have tried this once with a 'veteran' and it just became funny doing 'coz it had no effect to him. It is still an effective strategy especially if you're at the edge for having a not so good set of cards on your end. Its efficiency I think depends on the doer whether he/she would execute it properly without revealing that it is actually bluffing. Doomed if you face against people who counts and notes cards.

[tusandii]

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I don't really understand the game of poker, so maybe that's what you see if there is some hesitation and confusion about poker. But I think that's normal because, in my opinion, playing poker requires more skills which I may be less able to understand than slot games which are very easy to understand

Everyone can play poker, but not everyone can understand and have the skills to process cards to be able to win in a poker game session.
It takes quite a long time if you want to really master the game of poker, and even then you can't really say you are an expert because for every skill or prowess in playing there are other gamblers who are more experienced and more powerful.
But poker terminology like this is definitely understood by poker game experts, it's just that we might be a little lazy if we have to study and understand it because it's a little boring and easier in slot games that don't need understanding and waiting for luck to come to win.

[piebeyb]

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I don't really understand the game of poker, so maybe that's what you see if there is some hesitation and confusion about poker. But I think that's normal because, in my opinion, playing poker requires more skills which I may be less able to understand than slot games which are very easy to understand

Everyone can play poker, but not everyone can understand and have the skills to process cards to be able to win in a poker game session.
It takes quite a long time if you want to really master the game of poker, and even then you can't really say you are an expert because for every skill or prowess in playing there are other gamblers who are more experienced and more powerful.
But poker terminology like this is definitely understood by poker game experts, it's just that we might be a little lazy if we have to study and understand it because it's a little boring and easier in slot games that don't need understanding and waiting for luck to come to win.

Yes, you are right, because not everyone can process cards correctly, especially poker, you need something called bluffing and deceiving your opponent at the table, taking advantage of your opponent's fear to deceive the cards you have, that's why almost everyone can definitely play it and it won't take long to learn it because what is needed is the courage to play on the opponent's weaknesses.

I often play poker in tournaments and it's really fun compared to playing slots that only rely on luck, after all playing slot machine games doesn't have the full adrenaline rush like poker, unfortunately poker is more winnable than playing slots that expect luck that is uncertain. while playing poker we can master the opponent's feelings when knowing his weaknesses such as using his emotions. 

[Peanutswar]

I'm not a fan of poker but these terminologies might help me on my casual games because most of the time only people who know this terms understand what are the next move or the task for the players, ill save this for reference.

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I don't really understand the game of poker, so maybe that's what you see if there is some hesitation and confusion about poker. But I think that's normal because, in my opinion, playing poker requires more skills which I may be less able to understand than slot games which are very easy to understand

Everyone can play poker, but not everyone can understand and have the skills to process cards to be able to win in a poker game session.
It takes quite a long time if you want to really master the game of poker, and even then you can't really say you are an expert because for every skill or prowess in playing there are other gamblers who are more experienced and more powerful.
But poker terminology like this is definitely understood by poker game experts, it's just that we might be a little lazy if we have to study and understand it because it's a little boring and easier in slot games that don't need understanding and waiting for luck to come to win.

Takes a lot of games before understand and becomes one of the vocabularies of yours to adopt this terminology, its kinda weird if you are a player who have this index glossary to your side while playing this poker game.

[maydna]

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Everyone can play poker, but not everyone can understand and have the skills to process cards to be able to win in a poker game session.
It takes quite a long time if you want to really master the game of poker, and even then you can't really say you are an expert because for every skill or prowess in playing there are other gamblers who are more experienced and more powerful.
But poker terminology like this is definitely understood by poker game experts, it's just that we might be a little lazy if we have to study and understand it because it's a little boring and easier in slot games that don't need understanding and waiting for luck to come to win.

That's my point. I don't really understand and don't have the skills to process those cards, so I can't play poker well. I also didn't study hard to have the skills to play poker, especially since few people around me could play poker well. And that's okay because I play slots more often than other gambling games. Maybe one day I will have the desire to learn how to play poker so I can try my skills against other poker players

[Blitzboy]

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I don't really understand the game of poker, so maybe that's what you see if there is some hesitation and confusion about poker. But I think that's normal because, in my opinion, playing poker requires more skills which I may be less able to understand than slot games which are very easy to understand

Everyone can play poker, but not everyone can understand and have the skills to process cards to be able to win in a poker game session.
It takes quite a long time if you want to really master the game of poker, and even then you can't really say you are an expert because for every skill or prowess in playing there are other gamblers who are more experienced and more powerful.
But poker terminology like this is definitely understood by poker game experts, it's just that we might be a little lazy if we have to study and understand it because it's a little boring and easier in slot games that don't need understanding and waiting for luck to come to win.

Yes, you are right, because not everyone can process cards correctly, especially poker, you need something called bluffing and deceiving your opponent at the table, taking advantage of your opponent's fear to deceive the cards you have, that's why almost everyone can definitely play it and it won't take long to learn it because what is needed is the courage to play on the opponent's weaknesses.

I often play poker in tournaments and it's really fun compared to playing slots that only rely on luck, after all playing slot machine games doesn't have the full adrenaline rush like poker, unfortunately poker is more winnable than playing slots that expect luck that is uncertain. while playing poker we can master the opponent's feelings when knowing his weaknesses such as using his emotions. 

Poker. Now we're talkin. It's more than just a game; it's a way of life! It takes more than a deck of cards and a poker visage to succeed. Psychological warfare is being waged on a green felt battlefield! Friend, you are a genius in your own right. Slots? Nah! It is equivalent to tossing money into a well and hoping for gold. On the other hand, poker is where the action is. You must focus on the opponent, not the cards

[Agbe]

OP you can also check this glossaries https://kiowacasino.com/the-essential-glossary-of-gambling-terms/ and https://www.gambling.net/glossary.php I hope this can also be a help to your list. Though the glossaries do not have all the terms but to some extent, you can still find some reasonable number of terms in the glossaries.

[so98nn]

Thanks for this mate. I frankly think this is first time me or someone playing the poker for very long might have understood this one or used it. May be I was just busy playing the game and trying not to freak out when someone is pressuring me to fold the cards. Lolz.

It’s better I am more focused on the cards rather than flashing my words. But yeah I am thankful I have seen this thread. May be I will keep learning them now and then so that I can Flash myself sometime. :-D

[o48o]

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.

https://edge.twinspires.com/poker/terms/
https://www.888poker.com/magazine/poker-terms#:~:text=Barrel%20%E2%80%93%20Refers%20to%20making%20a,as%20%E2%80%9Cinside%20straight%20draw%E2%80%9D.

 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

I thought i know enough about poker and i knew like only 14 of those, so thanks i guess. But is a fist bump really a poker term? Or related to poker at all? I never seen people do that in live games that i participated in before pandemia. Or maybe i didn't pay enough attention as i sometimes do that in other occasions.

But few of those are handy to know and i feed odd that i've never paid any attention to those words. It's like i never heard anyone said them. Are those really all used often?

[iv4n]

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I thought i know enough about poker and i knew like only 14 of those, so thanks i guess. But is a fist bump really a poker term? Or related to poker at all? I never seen people do that in live games that i participated in before pandemia. Or maybe i didn't pay enough attention as i sometimes do that in other occasions.

But few of those are handy to know and i feed odd that i've never paid any attention to those words. It's like i never heard anyone said them. Are those really all used often?

Hand, pot, ante, and small/big blinds are real poker terminologies, but the rest are just phrases/slang from the US. I never heard for most of them as well...

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”.

I don't know who is Dolly Paton, and even less I know about her famous song "9 to 5".

I believe that every poker community has its own unique terms for many "poker situations" we get in while playing regularly. With good company, new terms can be easily created, and if there's a good laugh after it will be adopted most likely.

[LUCKMCFLY]

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.

https://edge.twinspires.com/poker/terms/
https://www.888poker.com/magazine/poker-terms#:~:text=Barrel%20%E2%80%93%20Refers%20to%20making%20a,as%20%E2%80%9Cinside%20straight%20draw%E2%80%9D.

 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

I thought i know enough about poker and i knew like only 14 of those, so thanks i guess. But is a fist bump really a poker term? Or related to poker at all? I never seen people do that in live games that i participated in before pandemia. Or maybe i didn't pay enough attention as i sometimes do that in other occasions.

But few of those are handy to know and i feed odd that i've never paid any attention to those words. It's like i never heard anyone said them. Are those really all used often?

All this is very interesting, I also thought I knew a lot of things, but there are some terms that I had not even seen, or perhaps I had seen them but they did not know that they had that meaning, however I think that poker has become so popular worldwide that all these types of words are generated, I don't know if some are logisms or things that are very native to a country in particular, such as the USA, however it is good to handle that jargon, so as not to suffer penalties in a tournament, or lose because of those words, for example as far as I am concerned, they are things that must be learned quickly so that you do not have to go through bad experiences, it has happened to me that sometimes because I do not understand some meanings of l' words I have made a mistake in something that I should not have, and practically that becomes a loss of money.

In poker, anything that is informational must be taken advantage of, in tournaments or in any PVP game that information is very important, as long as things can be done to advance or have some type of action required to gain an advantage, it must be known, in things can go very well in poker when you know a lot of things, the more you know, the more courses and more experience you have, the more you will grow in poker, and well, taking into account all this things in poker you can look for more that good luck, because in poker not everything is knowledge but it also has a lot to do with the experience you have in the games, I know many friends who play quite a lot, not in online tournaments, without going to play since college at the ims university, and they had a lot of experience, this is something that each one learns to know and according to what has happened and they have lived when they enter a casino, it is something else, they master the istem very well because they apply their knowledge and of course some They already have intuition and the more training they have with others, the more they learn.

[Bushdark]

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.

Op had really done well and those that want to learn some of these terminologies will not have go and search on the internet for all these words again for them to learn unless if they want to proceed to learn more of them. I have long ago trying to learn more about poker and I think going through this thread remind me that I still have something to learn about without trying to be procrastinate. Poker is a nice game and I hope to get into it in less than no time.

[CarnagexD]

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.

Op had really done well and those that want to learn some of these terminologies will not have go and search on the internet for all these words again for them to learn unless if they want to proceed to learn more of them. I have long ago trying to learn more about poker and I think going through this thread remind me that I still have something to learn about without trying to be procrastinate. Poker is a nice game and I hope to get into it in less than no time.

Yeah like using these terms real time would make you sound like a professional poker player. You no longer be judge as a beginner in the table. Ypu won't get intinidated by other players easily because youao somehow know the terminologies.

But regardless of how many terminologies you know, if you don't have the strategy playing and the consistency applying it, you still gonna lose playing poker.

[Haunebu]

Just bumped into this thread and I must say that I learnt a lot of new stuff that I never knew before even though I have been playing poker from the last couple of years. I have heard some of these terms in games too, but never understood them.

My favorite one among them is bloodbath because it sounds scary which makes sense here.