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P
Paints Face or picture cards
(Jack, Queen and King).
Pair
Two cards of the same face or number value.
Pass
To fold.
Pay Off To
call on the final round of betting when you may or may not think you have
the best hand.
Picture Cards
Face cards (Jack, Queen and King).
Play Back
To raise or re-raise another player's bet.
Playing the Board In
flop games when your best five card hand is all five of the community
cards.
Pocket
The down cards or hole cards.
Pocket Rockets
A pair of Aces in the pocket or hole.
Position
Where a player is seated in relation to the dealer, therefore establishing
that player's place in the betting order.
Post
When you post a bet, you place your chips in the pot. (You must post the
Blinds.)
Pot
The money or chips in the center of a table that players try to win.
Pot Limit
This is a game where the maximum bet can equal the pot.
Prop
A person hired by the cardroom to work as a shill.
Push
When the dealer pushes the chips to the winning player at the end of a
hand. It's also when dealers rotate to other tables.
Put Down
To fold a hand.
Q
Quads
Four of a kind.
Qualifier In
High-Low games, it is a requirement the Low hand must meet to win the pot.
R
Rack
A tray that holds 100 poker chips in five stacks of twenty chips each.
Rail
The rim of a poker table or a barrier outside a poker area.
Railbird Someone
who hangs around a poker room who watches the games and/or is looking to
get into action.
Raise To
increase the previous bet.
Rake Chips
taken from the pot by the cardroom for compensation for hosting the game.
Rank The
value of each card and hand.
Rap
When a player knocks on the table indicating that he/she has checked.
Razz Seven
Card Stud where the lowest five cards win the pot.
Re-buy The
amount of money a player pays to add a fixed number of chips to his/her
stack in a tournament.
Re-raise To
raise a raise.
Ring Game
A "live" game that is not a tournament.
River
This is the last card given in all games. In Hold'em and Omaha, it is also
known as 5th street. In Stud games, it is also known as 7th street.
Round of Betting
This is when players have the opportunity to bet, check or raise. Each
round of
betting ends when the last bet or raise has been called.
Rounders
Guys who hustle for a living. This is also the name of a popular poker
movie starring
Matt Damon and Ed Norton.
Royal Flush
This is an Ace high straight (A-K-Q-J-10) of the same suit. It is the best
possible hand in poker.
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