A
Ace to five – Straights and flushes don’t count and the ace is used as a low card. The best hand is A2345.
Act – any action made by players when their turn comes. Act means either of: check, call, fold, open bet, and raise.
Action – Putting money into the pot.
Add-on – In tournament players are usually allowed to buy additional chips. This is called add-on.
Advertise – show a mediocre hand to give the impression that you play even with bad hands and usually play a weak game. It is a form of bluffing.
Aggressive – Style of play. Aggressive players frequently raise and re-raise.
All-in – Situation in which a player puts all his chips in a pot.
Angle – legal but slightly immoral moves meant to increase a player’s expectations.
Ante – small, forced bet paid by all the players at the table before each hand is dealt.

B
Bet – To bet is to put money into the pot, usually by opening as later action in a round is a raise or a re-raise.
Big Bet - In limit games in which the size of the maximum bet increases in later rounds, a big bet is the largest bet size. A small bet is the smallest bet size. So in a 5-10 hold'em game, small bets are $5 and big bets are $10. See structure and limit.
Blind Bet (or Blind) - A blind bet, or blind, is a forced bet that must be posted before you see any cards. Blinds are an alternative to antes for getting money in the pot initially. In hold'em the two players to the left of the dealer button are forced to place blind bets. "Big blind" and "small blind" are also used to refer to the players who posted these bets.
Bluff - A bet with a weak hand (typically a busted hand), usually intended to get other players to fold.
Board - The community cards in a flop game or the up cards in a stud game.
Bring In - To bring in the betting is to make the first bet on the first round of a hand (not including blind bets and antes).
Broadway – Straight, ace high.
Burn - Any time a card is discarded from the top of the deck it's called a burn card.
Bust – Running out of money.
Button - Plastic disc, used to mark a particular position at the table. The most common button is the dealer button.

C
Call - Match the current bet.
Check - If there has been no betting before you in a betting round, you may check that means calling a bet of $0.
Chip - Chips are small round discs used instead of money at the poker table.
Community Cards – Cards placed face up and shared by all the players in a hand.
Cut - After the cards are shuffled but before they are dealt, the deck is split in the middle and the halves reversed.

D
Deal - To give out the cards during a hand.
Dealer – person who deals the cards.
Draw – Receiving more cards with the hope of improving your hand.
Drop – Lose a sum of money.

E
Equity – The share of the pot for each player. Calculated based on the sum of money in the pot and each player’s chances of winning.

F
Five Card Draw - Each player receives five cards, then there is a round of betting, after which each player may draw a certain number of cards. After that there is a second round of betting and then the showdown.
Flop – First three cards that are dealt face up on the table in some community games that are played with 5 community cards.
Flush – Five card hand in which all the cards have the same suit.
Fold – Abandoning a poker hand and giving up on the possibility of winning the pot in the hand.
Forced Bet – Bet that some players are forced to pay. Also see Blind bet and Bring in Four of a Kind – Four cards of the same rank.
Full House – Poker hand with three cards of one rank and two cards of another rank.

H
Hand – a distinct poker game that includes dealing cards, betting, winning and pushing the pot. The hand is also the cards that players hold. In games in which players have more than 5 cards the hand is considered to be each player’s best five cards.
High-Low Split - Split games in which half the pot goes to the best hand (the high), half to the worst (the low).
Hole - First two down cards in seven card stud.
House – the management, the owners the cardroom in which poker is played.

K
Kicker - The highest unpaired card in poker hands that doesn't participate in a straight or flush.

L
Limit - Any game in which there is a fixed limit on how much players can bet or raise in any round.
Loose - Playing more hands and holding on to them longer.
Low – Poker games in which the worst hand wins the pot.
Lowball - Five card draw in which the lowest hand wins the whole pot.

N
No-limit – Any poker game in which there is no limit to the size of the bets and raises.

O
Odds – It is a ratio that usually combines the probability of a player making a hand to the probability of not making a hand.
Omaha – Flop game in which players are dealt four cards and players must create hands using two cards from the ones they were dealt and three community cards.
Open – To make the first bet in a round.
Out card – the card that improves the hand.

P
Pair - Two cards of the same rank.
Pass – Fold.
Passive play – Play characterized by reluctance to bet and raise. A passive player will only raise when he has a very good hand.
Pocket – Cards dealt face down the value of which only the player knows.
Position – Place at the table.
Pot – The money in the middle of the poker table that goes to the winner of the hand.
Pot-Limit – Game in which the maximum bet or raise is the size of the pot.
Pot Odds - Ratio of the amount of money in the pot to the amount of money it will cost players to call a bet.

Q
Qualifier - Requirement that a hand must meet in order to be eligible for part of the pot.

R
Raise – Action by which a player increases the amount of the bet a previous player made.
Razz - Seven card stud played for low only.
Read – TO form an idea about what hands the opponents make by paying attention to the way they play.
Re-buy – Buying additional chips if the ones initially bought are not enough.
Re-raise – Raises made after the first raise made in a round.
River – The last of the five community cards in flop games.
Round – Round of betting or round of hands.
Royal Straight Flush – Straight flush, ace high.

S
Seven Card Stud - Each player is dealt seven cards of their own: two down, then four up, and a final card down and there is a round of betting after the first up card and after each subsequent card dealt.
Showdown - if more than one player is still in the pot when the betting is done, showdown is the process of figuring out who wins.
Shuffle – Mixing the cards in order to make the order unpredictable.
Small Blind – Forced fixed bet placed at the beginning of a poker game.
Split Pot – Pot split between two players who have the same hand at the showdown.
Stud - Each player is dealt a number of non-shared cards and must use only those cards.
Suits - Clubs, diamonds, hearts, spades.

T
Tell – Behaviors that give away information about the current hand a player holds.
Texas Hold'em – Poker game in which each player gets two pocket cards and five community cards are dealt face-up on the table. Hands can be made with any 5 of the seven cards.
Three of a kind – Three cards of the same rank.
Tight – Playing few hands and folding early.
Turn – The fourth of five community cards dealt in flop games.
Two Pair – Hand consisting of two pairs of different ranks and an unpaired card.

U
Under the gun – The first player that acts after the big blind is placed.