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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.
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.
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.
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.
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. Back to top
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