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cards

(n) The playing of a card game, often poker. "I'm going to play cards tonight at Full Tilt Poker."

cards speak

(v phrase) The situation in online cardroom and brick and mortar cardrooms that the best hand at the showdown wins, not dependent on any declaration. What this means online is that, in a high-low split game, at the showdown the software determines which hand is best for high and which for low—providing a hand qualifies for low—and awards the pot accordingly.

chat

1 (n) The informal language that online cardroom players type in the chat box. 2. (v) Enter comments into the chat box.

chat box

(n phrase) Part of the playing area at a table in an online cardroom, a field into which dealer text and player comments go.

chat terms

(n phrase) Specialized shorthand that players use when they type comments into the chat box. These are often congratulatory or offer comments about play. The table lists many of the terms.

bbl	be back later
brb	be right back
cya	see ya
g1	good one
gc	good call or good cards
gg	good game
gl	good luck
itm	In the money
lol	laughing out loud
n	nice
n1	nice one
nc	nice call
nh	nice hand
nhs	nice hands
nhwps	"Nice hand, well played, sir."
nl	no-limit
nlhe	no-limit hold'em
o	offsuit, as in AQo
o8	Omaha/8
omg	oh my God!
pl	pot-limt
plo	pot-limit Omaha
plo8	pot-limit Omaha/8
s	suited, as in KTs
sng	sit and go
t	thanks
thx	thanks
tnx	thanks
tu	thank you
tx	thanks
ty	thank you
tyvm	thank you very much
vn	very nice
vn1	very nice one
vnh	very nice hand
vvn	very very nice
vvnh	very very nice hand
wb	welcome back
wcp	world-class player
yhs	your hand sucks
yw	you're welcome

check

1. (v) Make no bet, but still hold your cards. You can check, and then call a later bet, fold when the action gets back to you, or raise. You can check in most games in any round after the first. Technically, to check is to make a bet of nothing. 2. (n) Making no bet. "There was a check from the first player, followed by a bet from the next player."

checked around

(v phrase) The situation in which no one bets in a particular round. In seven-card stud, it is possible in every round except third street for no betting to occur. In hold'em and Omaha, it is possible in every round except the first for no betting to occur. In those games, if no one opens on the first round, the big blind gets the pot, but this is not the same as being checked around because, technically, the blinds are bets.

check-raise

1. (v) Check, often with a good hand, and then, when someone bets and it returns to you, raise. 2. (n) The act of so doing.

chip

1. (n) In a brick-and-mortar cardroom, a disk-shaped marker, usually about the size of a silver dollar, used to represent various monetary betting units; such as a 50-cent chip, or a $5 chip. Chips are the score-keeping units of poker. Also called check, counter, poker chip, token. 2. In an online cardroom, the virtual equivalent of the preceding.

chip dumping

(v phrase) Chip dumping is a collusion tactic were one player deliberately funnels chips to another player through under-handed maneuvers.

chips

(n) The total money you have in play (represented by the chips in your possession while seated at a table).

club poker

(n) Poker played in a public cardroom (as opposed to a private game), usually with posted rules or a printed rule book.

come in on the big blind

(v phrase) See wait for the big blind.

community cards

In hold'em and Omaha, the upcards dealt to the center of the table that are part of each player's hand. Also called the board.

complete

(v) See complete the bet. "Is it my turn? I complete."

complete the bet

(v phrase) In seven-card stud, increase the bring-in bet to the lower limit. For example, in a $2/$4 limit game, if you open for the 50-cent bring-in, another player can complete the bet to $2.

counterfeited

(adv) 1. In a high-low split game, having one of one's low cards duplicated on the board, thus considerably weakening one's hand, because it is now much easier for another player to tie or beat the hand. For example, in Omaha, you hold A-2-7-9, and the board is 3-4-8. At this point you have the nut low (8-4-3-2-A). The turn produces a 2. You now hold a 7 low (7-4-3-2-A), but you have potentially been counterfeited because someone holding A-5-X-X has a wheel. 2. In high (either straight high or the high half of high-low), having a probable winner turned into a probable loser by the appearance of another card on the board. For example, you have two low spades in hold'em, and three medium spades appear on the flop. Your hand is very likely the best. If another spade appears on the turn or river, anyone holding one spade higher than your two will beat you. Or, you hold , and the flop is . You have a good hand at this point, because, while possible, it is not likely that another player holds 9-10. If a 5 or 10 falls, anyone with a 9 beats you. If a 9, anyone with a 10 beats you. In all of these cases, you have been counterfeited.

cya

(n) A chat term, "see ya."

deal

1. (v) Distribute the cards to the players. 2. (n) Pot, definition 2. "I lost with pocket aces on the last deal."

dealer button

(n phrase) See button.

dealer dialog

(n phrase) Dealer text.

dealer text

(n phrase) The dealer's running verbiage, displayed in the chat box, describing the action. At Full Tilt Poker, you can specify the level of this reporting, from minimal information to everything that happens.

dealt in

(n phrase) Having received cards from the dealer. "When you first sit down at a seven-card stud table, you get dealt in immediately."

dealer

(n) 1. In a brick-and mortar cardroom or a home game without a house person to run the game and deal the cards, the dealer is the person who physically distributes the cards. 2. In a game with a house person to run the game, the dealer is both the house person and the position from which the cards would be dealt if there were no house dealer. Although this sounds confusing, you can tell by context which is meant. To further avoid confusion, the term button (definition 2) is usually used for the deal position. 3. In an online cardroom, the software distributes the cards, so button is the preferred term. You will, however, sometimes hear the term dealer used somewhat anthropomorphically to refer to the software in its role as distributor of cards.

deal position

(n phrase) The position at the table from which the cards would be dealt if there were no house dealer.

deck

1. (n) The 52 cards (53 if the joker is used) from which poker (and other card games) is played, consisting of four suits (clubs, diamonds, hearts, spades), each with 13 ranks (A or ace, 2 or deuce, 3 or trey, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, T or 10, J or jack, Q or queen, K or king). See card. 2. The undealt portion of the cards. After players receive their hole cards in hold'em, for example, the cards that remain in the dealer's control are still referred to as the deck. "I had pocket aces and I was pretty sure John had an ace, but one more was still in the deck."

declaration

A home game variant in which players indicate at the showdown, in a high-low split game, whether they're going high or low—or both ways.

detachable chat

(n phrase) The ability to move the chat box anywhere on your screen. This is also called undocking.

dialog box

(n phrase) An interactive menu that appears when it is your turn to make a decision. For example, when you sit down at a game, the software prompts you to choose how much to buy in for. This it does in the form of a dialog box.

downcard

(n) A card dealt face down. See hole card.

double limit

(n phrase) Structured limit game with bets at one limit in early rounds, and bets at twice that limit in subsequent rounds. For example, in a $2/$4 hold'em game, all bets in the first two rounds are $2, and multiples of $2 when players raise; all bets in the last two rounds are $4, and multiples of $4 when players raise. The term double limit is often restricted to draw games, while structured limit is used for stud and hold'em-type games.

draw

1. (n) A particular hand you are trying to make, as, a flush draw, which is four cards to a flush. This usage is common in stud and hold’em-type games. 2. Specifically an unmade hand. “I raised him because I knew he was on a draw.” That is, I knew that at the moment, his hand did not beat mine, but that he was trying to make a straight or flush (which, presumably, would win if he did make it). 3. High draw poker. 4. The receiving of draw cards in draw poker. 5. (v) In draw poker, replace cards.

draw poker

(n phrase) 1. A form of poker in which players are dealt five cards face down, bet or fold based on those cards, those remaining (the active players) replace one or more cards (draw) or elect not to replace any (stand pat), and then participate in a second round of betting, after which the best of the remaining active hands wins all the money in the pot (or, in the case of a split-pot game, two hands each win half), which money is usually in the form of chips; the forms of draw poker in cardrooms are high draw poker, lowball, triple-draw lowball, high-low split, and, rarely, deuces wild. Triple-draw lowball is also found at some online cardrooms. In home or private games, many other variations exist. Also called five-card draw. 2. High draw poker, often called just draw.

Cadillac

(n) The no-limit hold'em of the automobile world.

call

1. (v) 1. Match a bet (rather than fold or raise). "I call." 2. (n) A calling bet. "When I bet, there was only one call."

called hand

(n phrase) 1. In a brick-and-mortar cardroom, a hand that someone bet and someone else called (or that someone called a bet with), as opposed to a hand that was bet and no one called. The term often comes up when a bet is made on the last round, called, and lost, and the bettor who lost the hand now wants to throw the cards away unshown (perhaps from embarrassment at being caught bluffing) at the showdown. Someone, often someone not involved in the hand, wants to see the losing cards, and cites the (often unwritten but nonetheless usually enforced) rule, "A called hand must be shown". (Some players, particularly those most used to private games, are under the mistaken impression that only the winner of a pot has the right to ask for a called hand to be shown.) The situation can also arise when someone bets, someone calls, and the bettor mucks his cards as acknowledgment that he was bluffing, and the caller undoubtedly had him beat. The winner of the hand often shows his cards, but not always, particularly in a fast-moving game. The hand that won the pot is still, however, a called hand, and must be shown if anyone asks. If a side pot is involved, even though a bet was made and not called (because the only remaining player was only in for the main pot), all hands must be shown at the showdown. 2. In an online cardroom, similarly, a hand that someone bet and someone else called (or that someone called a bet with), as opposed to a hand that was bet and no one called. Here, the situation is similar but more strictly interpreted. That is, any player who received a hand on that deal has a right to see a called hand. If a losing hand is not shown on the showdown, a player can request a hand history. At Full Tilt Poker, if you were dealt in on the previous hand, you can bring up the Last Hand History window to see all hands that were live at the showdown. If you were an observer or seated but not dealt in on the previous hand, when you bring up the Last Hand History window you see only those hands that were exposed at the showdown.

cashier

(n) 1. In a brick and mortar cardroom, the employee or facility that handles money transactions, such as cashing checks and buying and selling chips. Sometimes also called the cage. 2. In an online cardroom, the virtual equivalent. Players have accounts that they use to buy and replenish chips at the table and to which they transfer funds when leaving a table. The cashier is the interface for this virtual buying and selling of chips and also the facility through which players transfer funds to and from online repositories of virtual cash. At Full Tilt Poker, the cashier appears in the form of a dialog accessed by clicking on the CASHIER button in the lobby.

cap

1. (v) Cap the betting. After one player puts in the third bet, another might say, "I cap." 2. (n) The final permitted bet in any round of betting, that is, the fourth bet. "He put in the cap."

capped

1. (adv) Describing the situation in which someone has put in the fourth bet in a round. See cap the betting. "The betting was capped every round." 2. (adj) Describing a pot in which this has taken place. "We had a capped pot."

cap the betting

(v phrase) In one round, cause the betting to reach the maximum. In any one round of betting, there can be a maximum of one bet and three raises.

card

(n) 1. In a brick and mortar cardroom, one of 52 (or 53 if the joker is used) flat, rectangular objects, made usually of paper or plastic, with a uniform design on one side (the backs) and a representation of value (rank and suit) on the other; each card is either the joker, or one of the four suits (spades, hearts, diamonds, clubs) and 13 ranks (A, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, T, J, Q, K). A complete set of cards is called a deck. 2. In an online cardroom, the virtual representation, as a graphic, of one of these objects, often shown in somewhat stylized form.

cardroom

(n) 1. An establishment, usually open to the public, in which cards, usually poker, are played. 2. The online equivalent, that is, an online cardroom. 3. The section of a casino in which poker is played. 4. A room in a club devoted to card playing. For all meanings, sometimes referred to informally as just room.