Texas Holdem Terminology
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I
Ignorant End: The low end straight.
Implied Odds: The amount of money you expect to win if you make your hand versus the amount of money it will cost you to continue playing.
In: A player is 'in' if he or she has called all bets.
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In the Air: When the tournament director instructs the dealers to get the cards in the air, it means to start dealing.
In The Dark: To check or bet blind, without looking at your cards.
Inside Straight: Four cards requiring one in the middle to fill a straight.
Insurance: Selling the actual outcome of the hand for its mathematical equity.
Isolate: To raise with the intention of reaching a heads up between yourself and a single other player.
J
Jackpot Poker: A form of poker in which the cardroom offers a jackpot for particularly bad beats. Typically you must have aces full or better.
Jacks Or Better: A form of draw poker in which a player needs at least a pair of Jacks to start the betting.
Jam: To bet or raise the maximum.
Jammed Pot: The pot has been raised the maximum number of times, and may also be multi-way.
Joker: The fifty-third card in the deck, used as a wild card or a bug.
K
Kansas City Lowball: A form of lowball poker played for a deuce to seven low.
Keep Honest: To call an opponent on the river, even though you believe he has a better hand than you do.
Key Card: The one card that will make your hand.
Key Hand: In a tournament, the hand that proves to be a turning point, for better or worse.
Kibitzer: A non-playing spectator; a railbird.
Kick It: To raise.
Kicker: The highest unpaired side card.
Kill: A kill game is one in which a player may place an extra bet, causing the betting limits to go up for just that hand. The player posting the bet is the 'killer,' and the hand is considered a 'kill pot.' The player is said to have 'killed the pot' for the amount of the kill.
Knave: A Jack.
L
Late Position: A position on a round of betting in which you act after most of the other players have acted.
Lay Down: To reveal one's hand in a showdown.
Lay Down Your Hand: To fold.
Lay The Odds: To wager more money on a proposition than you hope to win.
Lead: To be the first to enter the pot after the blind.
Leak: To lose back part or all of one's winnings through other gambling habits.
Legitimate Hand: A strong hand that is not a bluff.
Limit Poker: A game with fixed minimum and maximum betting intervals.
Limp In: To enter the round by calling a bet rather than raising.
Limper: A player who enters the pot for the minimum bet.
Live Blind: When the player is allowed to raise even if no one else raises first; straddle.
Live Card: In stud games, a card that has not yet been seen in an opponent's hand and is presumed likely to be still in play.
Live Hand: A hand that is still eligible to win the pot.
Live One: An inexperienced, bad or loose player who apparently has plenty of money to lose; a rich sucker.
Lock: A hand that cannot lose; a cinch hand.
Long Odds: The odds for an event that has a relatively small chance of occurring.
Look: To call the final bet (before the showdown).
Loose: Playing more hands than the norm.
Loose Game: A game with a lot of players in most pots.
Lowball: A form of poker in which the lowest hand wins.
M
Main Pot: When a player goes all-in, that player is only eligible to win the main pot - the pot consisting of the bets they were able to match. Additional bets are placed in a side pot and are contested among the remaining players.
Make: To make the deck is to shuffle.
Make A Move: To try a bluff.
Maniac: A very aggressive player who plays hands that more conservative players would probably not consider.
Mark: A sucker.
Marker: An IOU.
Texas Holdem Terminology
Mechanic: A cheat who manipulates the deck.
Meet: To call.
Middle Pair: In flop games, a middle pair is made by pairing with the middle card on the flop.
Middle Position: A position on a round of betting somewhere in the middle.
Miss: To be unable to make your drawing hand when the final cards are dealt.
Monster: A hand that is almost certain to win.
Move In: To go all-in.
Texas Hold'em Terms And Definitions
Muck: To discard a hand; also the discard pile in which all cards are dead.