All In

• To put all the rest of your money into the pot.

Bet

• To wager

Four Of a Kind

Four of the same ranked cards, for example 4 Aces

Straight Flush

• A hand with 5 cards in sequence all of the same suit.

Pocket Pair

• Two cards of the same rank you hold.

Pot• Money that is in the current hand that

the players are playing for.

Re-raise

• To raise a raise.

Suited Off suit• Cards with same suit.

• Cards with different suits.

pocket cardspersonal cards

• The card in the players hand

Flop • The first three community cards, put out face up.

Family Pot

• A hand in which all the players call before the flop.

Bluff• To act like a hand is better than it really is.

Big Blind• The larger of the two blinds, the blind that is put

in by the player 2 seats left of the dealer, except when 2 players are left, then the dealer is the small blind.

Check• When no one has bet in front of you and

you do not bet.

Free Card

• The turn or river card in which you don't have to call a bet.

Kicker

• After matched hands, the top high card. For example if both players have a set of Jacks, the player with the next highest card has the top kicker.

An open ended straight

• a hand where either end can hit and you will complete your straight.

draws

• A drawing hand is a that still needs cards to improve to the winner.

nuts• the best possible hand for this particular

hand!

Check-raise

• the act of checking a hand, in hopes of luring your opponent to bet, so that you may then raise over him and build a bigger pot to win.