planeswalker

From planes + walker. Originated in the collectible card game Magic: The Gathering.

For quotations using this term, see Citations:planeswalker.

Like Rosalie, he acted as though he had no power. He believed the same was true for D'Las as it was for the planeswalker—he simply couldn't access the power on his own.

2011, Amber Wokaty, Galaxy Killers, Author House, →ISBN, page 187:

(fantasy) A wizard who can travel across planes of existence.


TAG

en-adj

TAG (comparative more TAG, superlative most TAG)

more TAG (comparative)
most TAG (superlative)

(poker) Tight (inclined to play only strong starting hands and fold otherwise) and aggressive (inclined to raise often).


go it blind

en-verb

go it blind (third-person singular simple present goes it blind, present participle going it blind, simple past went it blind, past participle gone it blind)

goes it blind (present singular third-person)
going it blind (participle present)
went it blind (past)
gone it blind (participle past)

(card games) To bet without having examined the cards.


loo table

A round table originally designed for playing the card game lanterloo.


Pope Joan

He could sing, and talk, and drink, and keep things stirring, and the gentlemen liked him; and he was, 'twas said, a wonderful fine player at whist, and piquet, and ombre, and all sorts of card-playing. So you see he could afford to play fair. The first time he came down, he fought three duels about a tipsy quarrel over a pool of Pope Joan.

1863, Sheridan Le Fanu, The House by the Churchyard:

The game of Pope Joan is played on a special circular board with divisions, and often lacquered in red and gold upon a black background. It was played early in the nineteenth century and several boards exist, mainly in museums and also in some of the stately homes of England. It was a popular game with the Prince of Wales, later Willliam IV.

1971, Gwen White, Antique Toys And Their Background, page 117:

(card games) A card game played on a round board with compartments.


great cassino

(card games) The ten of diamonds in the game of cassino.


little cassino

(card games) The two of spades in the game of cassino.


ajax

(poker slang) An ace and a jack as a starting hand in Texas hold 'em.


coat card

(archaic, card games) A face card, picture card or court card; the king, queen, or jack.


chump blocker

(collectible card games) A weak defender used to block an attack it will not survive from a stronger attacker which it will not destroy.


king card

If the ace and king of a suit have been played, the queen is the king card of the suit.

(card games) In whist, the best unplayed card of a suit.


chump block

chump block (third-person singular simple present chump blocks, present participle chump blocking, simple past and past participle chump blocked)

chump blocks (present singular third-person)
chump blocking (participle present)
chump blocked (participle past)
chump blocked (past)

This is a bad Pacifism, as it allows the creature to stay around and at least chump block for a turn.

1998 September 17, Mark Justice with Beth Moursund, Magic: The Gathering Advanced Strategy Guide: The Color-Illustrated Guide to Expert Magic, New York: Thunder's Mouth Press, →ISBN, page 49:

And, in the mid-late game, random 1-2 fighting guys get chucked out there just to get them out of hand and to chump block.

2001 June 14, Julian Lighton, “Re: [FIST] Netherworld 2: Spoiler and Commentary - Part 3 (Long)”, in rec.games.trading-cards.misc (Usenet), message-ID <oiUV6.66$9d.31806@newshog.newsread.com>:

The problem is that if you don't get your Bum's Rush in at stealth or before I manage to create a few chump block babies, then one of them blocks, goes to torpor, and then I just create two more next turn.

2004 March 22, Peter Oh, “Re: Toreador Anti - Legion Deck”, in rec.games.trading-cards.jyhad (Usenet), message-ID <aGG7c.2598$ze2.677@nwrddc01.gnilink.net>:

He puts out a Suq'ata Firewalker the next turn, perhaps to advance his own strategy or just to chump-block.

2006, Michael J. Flores, Deckade: 10 years of decks, thoughts, and theory!, To Be Continued LLC, →ISBN, page 121:

There are times when you simply have to chump block, since that's the only play that will allow you to survive an incoming attack. Then there are times when chump blocking is a foolish choice that will see you sacrifice a potentially crucial resource (a creature) to protect a resource that you have no shortage of (your life total).

2012 August 22, Steve Sadin, “Chump Blocking”, in Magic: The Gathering, retrieved 2014-05-17:

(collectible card games, intransitive) To block an attack from a powerful attacker with a weak defender that will neither survive the attack nor destroy the attacker.


Voltron

Name of a combining giant robot in the US animated television series Voltron: Defender of the Universe.

(collectible card games) A deck with a strategy of casting a single, powerful card.


sweep the deck

sweep the deck (third-person singular simple present sweeps the deck, present participle sweeping the deck, simple past and past participle swept the deck)

sweeps the deck (present singular third-person)
sweeping the deck (participle present)
swept the deck (participle past)
swept the deck (past)

(card games, idiomatic) To clear off all the stakes on the table by winning them.


wild-card

(sports, card games) Alternative form of wild card


deckbuilding

In Magic, a blue card so powerful that everyone played blue, and games hung on who drew that particular card first, and the other cards in the deck all went toward supporting that card, would turn a game of making choices in deckbuilding into a game with one choice […]

2012, George Skaff Elias, Richard Garfield, K. Robert Gutschera, Characteristics of Games, page 133:

The construction of a deck of playing cards in certain games where players can make decisions about which cards to include.


Four Corners

The quadripoint at the borders of Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona and Utah, and the region surrounding it.


string bet

(poker) Action where a player first calls, bets or raises a certain amount and then adds more. It can be used to gather weakness/strength tells from opponents before deciding how many chips to add into the pot. It is not allowed in most games. To prevent string betting, player's action is considered final as soon as the player orally states the amount they bet/raise, say for example "call" or the first chip touches the table in front of their stack/cards.

(poker) A raise where the chips are put into play in more than one movement. Such a raise is usually illegal and counts as a call.


string bet

string bet (third-person singular simple present string bets, present participle string betting, simple past and past participle string bet)

string bets (present singular third-person)
string betting (participle present)
string bet (participle past)
string bet (past)


bidding box

(bridge) A box holding cards with calls printed on them, allowing a player to bid without speaking.


arrow switch

(bridge) The action of changing the North direction during an event, typically for the last round of a Mitchell movement, so that the pairs who were North-South become East-West and vice versa. This allows a single winning pair to be determined.


Bath coup

Presumably named after the city of Bath, England.

(bridge) A coup where the declarer, holding AJx in a suit, ducks the left-hand opponent's lead of a king or queen.


flavor text

en-noun

flavor text (countable and uncountable, plural flavor texts)

In the old days of Magic the Gathering, the flavor text was almost all serious, sometimes even with quotes from Shakespeare or Edgar Allen Poe thrown in.

2008, Game Developer, Volume 15, Issues 7-11, unknown page

One reason why cards are now much more popular, and dice less, in tabletop games is that cards can include colorful, varied, interesting illustrations and brief “flavor text.”

2012, Lewis Pulsipher, Game Design: How to Create Video and Tabletop Games, Start to Finish, McFarland & Company, published 2012, →ISBN, page 129:

The metaphysical taxonomy of reality in magic systems occurs to varying degrees of depth, ranging from flavor text in small or large amounts (the backs of Magic: The Gathering cards exemplify short flavor text, while the codexes/codices in Dragon Age contain more elaborate philosophical ruminations) to deep integration with gameplay.

2014, Jeff Howard, Game Magic: A Designer's Guide to Magic Systems in Theory and Practice, CRC Press, published 2014, →ISBN, page 104:

(chiefly card games) Text printed on a card or within the rulebook of a tabletop game or a menu in a video game which does not affect the game's mechanics, but gives background information on characters, places, etc. to enhance the game's atmosphere.


Anna Kournikova

Anna Kournikova (plural Anna Kournikovas)

Named after Anna Kournikova (born 1981), Russian tennis player. Introduced by poker commentator Vince van Patten during a WPT tournament because it "looks great but never wins".

(poker, slang) In Texas hold 'em, the hole cards ace-king (unsuited).


bet out

en-verb

bet out (third-person singular simple present bets out, present participle betting out, simple past and past participle bet out)

bets out (present singular third-person)
betting out (participle present)
bet out (participle past)
bet out (past)

Early players folded, and Ann bet out with two queens.

(poker) To be the first in a round to put money in the pot.


double napoleon

en-noun

double napoleon (countable and uncountable, plural double napoleons)

From its value of twice the 20-franc napoleon.

(uncountable, card games) A form of solitaire.


suiter

Additionally your chances of going alone and getting all five tricks are rather better on a two-suited hand than a one-suiter.

2016, Card Games All-in-One For Dummies, page 73:

(card games, in combination) Something having a certain number of suits.


time bank

(poker) A player's allotment of additional time in online poker games.


established suit

established suit (plural established suits)

(bridge, whist) A plain suit in which a player (or side) could, except for trumping, take tricks with all of his or her remaining cards.


little slam

(bridge, whist) The winning of 12 out of the 13 tricks.


auction bridge

(card games) A precursor to the game of contract bridge.


fan-tan

Borrowed from Cantonese 番攤／番摊 (faan¹ taan¹, literally “repeated divisions”).

bor+

He came in an said Pack, we were booked for Macau. When we got there, I played fantan in the Lisboa and he crossed over into Zhongshan.

1984, William Gibson, Neuromancer (Sprawl; book 1), New York, N.Y.: Ace Books, →ISBN, page 85:

A Chinese gambling game in which coins or other small objects are placed upon a table, usually under a cup, and the players bet as to what remainder will be left when the sum of the counters is divided by four.

番攤

a specific gambling game where objects are counted in sets of four

A card game in which the cards are played in sequences upon the table, and the winner is the first player to have no cards left.


mugginsed

(card games) Having had points deducted for making a mistake which another player then pointed out.


Sancho Pedro

(card games) A variety of auction pitch in which the nine (Sancho) and five (Pedro) of trumps are added as counting cards at their pip value, and the ten of trumps counts game.


royal spade

(card games, usually in the plural) In auction bridge, a spade when spades are trumps under the condition that every trick over six taken by the successful bidder has a score value of 9.


Blucher

Named after Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher (1742-1819), Prussian general.

(card games) In the game of nap, a bid that results in the bidder winning sextuple, or losing treble, the amount staked.


California Jack

(card games) A card game similar to all fours.


angle shot

I'll always gamble, anytime, but he's taking so many angle shots at the table it's not even funny.

2008 June 25, John Phan, “WSOP: Bracelet Winner Q and A”, in CardPlayer:

Angle shots are used to gain an unfair advantage in the game-to obtain information that a player shouldn't legally have yet, or to manipulate opponents. What can make angle shots so frustrating is that they are nearly always impossible to prove.

2009 May 31, Barbara Connors, “Angle-Shooting: Dishonorable Discharge”, in PokerPlayer:

(slang, poker) An act performed in order to angle-shoot; a trick used to gain unfair advantage.


angle-shoot

en-verb

angle-shoot (third-person singular simple present angle-shoots, present participle angle-shooting, simple past and past participle angle-shot)

angle-shoots (present singular third-person)
angle-shooting (participle present)
angle-shot (participle past)
angle-shot (past)

The floor will rule one way or another; the point isn't so much to win the ruling as to put the spotlight on the offending player so he's less likely to angle-shoot on future hands.

2006, Randy Burgess, Ultimate Guide to Poker Tells: Devastate Opponents by Reading Body Language, →ISBN, page 149:

(poker, slang) To use a trick that is not explicitly prohibited by the rules, but which is used to gain unfair advantage.


angle-shoot

As MacPhee says, “if an angle-shoot is within the rules and plus-EV then do it!”

2010 April 22, Brett Collson, “Slowrolling: Disgraceful or Strategic?”, in Poker News Daily:

(slang, poker) Alternative form of angle shot


angle shoot

The change will also take away one potential angle shoot at the poker tables, as it will make it easier for players to confirm their opponent's stack sizes without wondering if cash is hidden on the tables, though this is almost certainly not the reason behind the change.

2015 March 16, Ed Scimia, “MGM Folds on Cash Play At US Poker Tables”, in Cardschat News - Worldwide Gambling News:


angle shooter

Technically, angle shooting is not cheating. Angle shooters don't break the rules-they just make it their personal mission to bend them as much as humanly possible.

(slang, poker) A player who uses unfair tricks to gain advantage; one who angle-shoots.


two-of

Eladamri's Call may help out with your deck in its current form, as would removing some of the one- and two-ofs for some more redundancy.

2001 February 6, Donald Shepherd, “Re: T2 Fires with Planeshift for review”, in rec.games.trading-cards.magic.strategy (Usenet), message-ID <95nnc1$2fg$1@nnrp1.deja.com>:

First note: IMO too many one-ofs and two-ofs.

2002 January 12, Erich Leibrock, “Re: Type 2 green weenie deck help needed”, in rec.games.trading-cards.magic.strategy (Usenet), message-ID <ZeZg8.98777$JZ.12806556@news20.bellglobal.com>:

(collectible card games) A card included in a deck twice.


one-of

Weak card. Might be good enough for a one-of in a mono-black deck, but you're running R/B.

2002 January 12, Adam Compton, “Re: Goblin/Zombie Horde”, in rec.games.trading-cards.magic.strategy (Usenet), message-ID <a1q7dt$9pf$1@news.service.uci.edu>:

One-ofs are usually no good unless you can tutor for them or are late-game goodies, so you should decide which to keep and which to exchange for more copies of the good ones.

2003 September 22, Gustavo Fischer, “Re: mirrodin and zombies...”, in rec.games.trading-cards.magic.strategy (Usenet), message-ID <bkpusc$4j7fq$2@ID-57982.news.uni-berlin.de>:

Kher Keep is a one-of with no drawback in this deck that creates blockers early on.

2007 May 22, mutantman, “Darksteel Reactor deck”, in rec.games.trading-cards.magic.strategy (Usenet), message-ID <1179902223.076767.202980@h2g2000hsg.googlegroups.com>:

But, even if you took it as a (one-of) staple card, what of the numerous other staples?

2008 September 23, suleci2 <suleci2@aol.com>, “Re: For G-d Sake, BAN Direct Intervention”, in rec.games.trading-cards.jyhad (Usenet), message-ID <34fdd65d-dacf-4a2b-99f2-abaecddcfb82@p31g2000prf.googlegroups.com>:

(collectible card games) A card included in a deck only once.


auction pitch

Pedro , Pedro Sancho , Dom Pedro , and Snoozer , are all varieties of Auction Pitch, in which certain counting cards are added , and secondary bids are allowed

1897, Robert Frederick Foster, Foster's Complete Hoyle: An Encyclopedia of All the Indoor Games Played at the Present Day:

A card game in which the players bid for the privilege of determining or "pitching" the trump suit.


monored

Monored decks are rarely viable because of their difficulties with enchantments.

1995 June 21, Guy T. Rice, “Re: THE END OF ALL RED DECKS?!”, in rec.games.trading-cards.magic.strategy (Usenet):

I personally faced 3 monored decks, and saw the Hammer in 4 different decks on Saturday.

1996 November 25, Lawrence Chancy, “Dallas Pro Tour Tourney Report”, in rec.games.trading-cards.magic.strategy (Usenet):

Hope I've been helpful - I'm a long time monored player.

1998 May 7, YoungBeard [username], “Re: T2 Sligh/Deadguy Red Deck for Critique”, in rec.games.trading-cards.magic.strategy (Usenet):

(Magic: The Gathering) Being a deck composed of only red or colorless cards.


monowhite

en-adj

monowhite (comparative more monowhite, superlative most monowhite)

more monowhite (comparative)
most monowhite (superlative)

One guy tried a griffen deck but desolation and army ants ate him alive and everyone put the monowhite decks away.

1997 February 24, Davewizard [username], “Re: The New Arena Season (or: MI/VI Constructed)”, in rec.games.trading-cards.magic.strategy (Usenet):

In short, Scent of Jasmine is more suited to a pure monowhite lifegain deck, while Gerrard's Wisdom is more suited to W/U decks.

1999 May 30, Ryan Li, “Destiny Analysis - Scents (long)”, in rec.games.trading-cards.magic.strategy (Usenet):

In addition I think a monowhite deck with Ivory Mask, Leonin Abunas, Ischron Scepter, and holy day might do the trick on ravager.

2004 May 22, Zelf Gale, “Re: Beating Ravager Affinity”, in rec.games.trading-cards.magic.strategy (Usenet):

(Magic: The Gathering) A deck composed of only white or colorless cards.


monoblue

Stasis, by itself, is an alright card... decent for stalling in a monoblue deck (just trust me on this one), and it gives a really good ability, shutting down all untapping.

1997 October 8, Paul Miller, “Re: Abeyance Neutered”, in rec.games.trading-cards.magic.strategy (Usenet):

still, scragnoth pretty much spells death for a monoblue player.

1998 March 13, Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa, “Re: It's time to Ban Perish”, in rec.games.trading-cards.magic.strategy (Usenet):

The deck I'm building is a monoblue counter/bouncer control deck.

2002 January 2, Avenging Angel [username], “Thoughts on current decks.”, in rec.games.trading-cards.magic.strategy (Usenet):

(Magic: The Gathering) Being a deck composed of only blue or colorless cards.


monogreen

I run a funnish monogreen Insects deck that uses Winter Blast and Dervishes as partners in crime.

1996 October 28, Albert Ko, “Re: Why Green Doesn't Really "Have" Creatures”, in rec.games.trading-cards.magic.strategy (Usenet):

Make it 1GGG and it becomes rather hard to cast for anyone but a monogreen player.

1999 August 17, Nathan Finch, “Re: Masques rumors”, in rec.games.trading-cards.magic.strategy (Usenet):

Why would you play Engineered Plague in a monogreen elf deck? :)

1999 November 10, Trevor Barrie, “Re: States Strategy”, in rec.games.trading-cards.magic.strategy (Usenet):

(Magic: The Gathering) Being a deck composed of only green or colorless cards.


monoblack

"The Black Problem" has two good, easy solutions-- the obvious one is Whirling Dervish, which no monoblack player can block, and can only be gotten rid of with Disks or Icys.

1996 April 16, Daniel Gray, “Re: Some Type II strategy”, in rec.games.trading-cards.magic.strategy (Usenet):

He was playing a monoblack weenie deck with 30+ creatures in it.

1997 February 10, Jesse Chounard, “Report: Pro Tour Paris PTQ”, in rec.games.trading-cards.magic.strategy (Usenet):

You can talk to him all day about how good high tide is in extended, or how good necropotence is in a monoblack deck, but he will still never play it.

1999 May 3, Eric Taylor, “Re: To all the Jamie W. lovers”, in rec.games.trading-cards.magic.strategy (Usenet):

(Magic: The Gathering) Being a deck composed of only black or colorless cards.


mana screw

Because he knows how to design his deck to avoid mana screw (or the opposite and usually equally deadly mana glut).

1997 May 22, Johnny Ace, “Re: My mana screw proposal: a defense”, in rec.games.trading-cards.magic.strategy (Usenet):

Also, I think that not enough shuffling in Magic tends to result in very poor hands, characterized by mana screw or mana flood.

1999 August 9, Ben Kidwell, “Re: Stat:Randomness Theory [Was Cheating S.O.Bs]”, in rec.games.trading-cards.magic.strategy (Usenet):

This is why we occasionally experience "mana screw" (too little mana) and "mana flood" (too much mana), even though the mana sources are randomly distributed throughout the deck.

2002 February 15, John Hwang, “Re: Traumatize/Haunting Echoes (was Type 2 deck)”, in rec.games.trading-cards.magic.strategy (Usenet):

(Magic: The Gathering) The condition of having an insufficient supply of (the correct color of) mana.


MTG

Magic: The Gathering
w:Magic: The Gathering

(fantasy) Initialism of Magic: The Gathering.

Marjorie Taylor Greene
w:Marjorie Taylor Greene

(politics, US politics) Initialism of Marjorie Taylor Greene.


suitedness

(card games) The quality of having a certain suit.


mana flood

en-noun

mana flood (countable and uncountable, plural mana floods)

If you do anything about the mana screw problem, you increase the probability of a mana flood even further.

1997 October 30, Warrl kyree Tale'sedrin [uername], “Re: Too many cards?”, in rec.games.trading-cards.magic.strategy (Usenet):

Include some cycling lands too and the threat of mana flood pretty much vanishes.

1999 November 10, Trevor Barrie, “Alternative green control deck”, in rec.games.trading-cards.magic.strategy (Usenet):

(Magic: The Gathering) The condition of having or drawing too many mana sources and insufficient spells.


mana shuffle

Once my opponents see that I actually shuffle the deck after the mana shuffle I will almost never have a problem.

1996 May 6, IHorizons [username], “Re: Mana Shuffling 'Cheating or Not?'”, in rec.games.trading-cards.magic.strategy (Usenet):

Now I can be kicked out of at tourney because of a mana shuffle?

1996 September 13, Garry O'Connorg, “New Floor Rules Cheating and shuffleing”, in rec.games.trading-cards.magic.misc (Usenet):

Actually, GreatLich, there ARE tournament rules for shuffling... If I remember right, they don't care if you do a mana shuffle, but the last three times (I think it is) half to be the kind of shuffling you do with playing cards... you know, one stack in each hand, and alternating bits from each stack falling.. I think it's called a "riffle shuffle"... look it up onWOTC's page :-)

2000 December 12, Erich Leibrock, “Re: Shuffeling?”, in rec.games.trading-cards.magic.rules (Usenet):

(Magic: The Gathering) The act of stacking one's deck to ensure even distribution of land cards.


mana weave

This will tend to break up the clumps without drawing attention to yourself with the mana weave.

1997 November 16, Roger Wink, “Re: Tournament Shuffling”, in rec.games.trading-cards.magic.misc (Usenet):

As a result I find the mana weave to be a fair means of randomizing a deck provided it is done face down, and followed by 1 or 2 riffle shuffles.

2000 December 7, James Lyvers, “Re: R: Shuffeling?”, in rec.games.trading-cards.magic.rules (Usenet):

If you are using a sufficently^([sic]) uncertain (I'm not going to say random)method of shuffling your deck, then the mana weave should make no differance^([sic]) to the final state of the deck before game play.

2002 March 9, Simon White, “Re: Doing the Shuffle”, in rec.games.trading-cards.magic.misc (Usenet):


mana glut

mana glut (countable and uncountable, plural mana gluts)

Funny, I have gone as low as 16 land and my deck still had huge problems with mana glut.

1998 May 31, Broccoli! [username], “Re: Why Sage owl is better than that Janky Impulse”, in rec.games.trading-cards.magic.strategy (Usenet):

And in my experience where 2 lands makes the difference between constant mana screw and constant mana glut in the deck, that compromise seems damn sweet.

2000 March 9, Glenn Olson, “Re: Q regarding 9-land green”, in rec.games.trading-cards.magic.strategy (Usenet):


color screw

color screw (countable and uncountable, plural color screws)

But with multis, and other mana sources, you can lessen the odds of a color screw.

1995 July 29, Chuck Cochems, “Re: Type I/II and Origins - an observation”, in rec.games.trading-cards.magic.misc (Usenet):

I'm so afraid of color screw, that I have 10 lands that produce both colors of mana and right now, its^([sic]) really hurting me.

1997 October 27, Jamie, “My Necro toruney report and tempest small report”, in rec.games.trading-cards.magic.strategy (Usenet):

Although I agree with you that playing three colours is good, the point of Karl was that he wanted to avoid color screw.

2001 July 3, dIMITRI, “Re: Drafting IBC”, in rec.games.trading-cards.magic.strategy (Usenet):

(Magic: The Gathering) The condition of having an insufficient supply of the correct color of mana.


mono-brown

en-adj

mono-brown (comparative more mono-brown, superlative most mono-brown)

more mono-brown (comparative)
most mono-brown (superlative)

From mono- + brown, from the brown border formerly used for artifact cards.

I was thinking that you could use the same engine to put Atogs and big artifact creatures in, similar to the mono-brown deck with a splash of blue.

1999 March 6, Michael Wong, “the new combo deck for April 1st”, in rec.games.trading-cards.magic.misc (Usenet):

This seems to be a common problem I have been encountering against mono-brown decks, oath of ghouls, living death decks.

1999 May 17, Nathan Murata, “help against darwins....”, in rec.games.trading-cards.magic.strategy (Usenet):

The situation that came up was me playing my control critters deck vs. a mono-brown deck and some others.

2001 September 18, Howling Fang [username], “Token ownership”, in rec.games.trading-cards.magic.rules (Usenet):

(Magic: The Gathering) Featuring or using mostly artifact cards.


kalooki

(card games) A form of contract rummy, popular in Jamaica.


gut-shot straight

en-noun

gut-shot straight (plural gut-shot straights)

Whenever you decide to draw to a gut-shot straight, you need to be sure that the pot will not be raised behind you.

2003, Matthew Hilger, Internet Texas Hold'em, →ISBN, page 190:

There is half the chance of hitting a gut-shot straight draw as making an open-ended straight draw and that is why the gut-shot draws should be discarded and the open-ended draws considered as a decent chance.

2008, Paul Mendelson, The Mammoth Book of Poker, →ISBN:

inside straight draw
inside straight draw

(poker slang) A straight obtained by an inside straight draw; a poker hand which is four cards to a straight, where only one rank can complete a straight, e.g. 3-4-6-7 requiring a five.


gut shot

If you raise, you're probably going to force players with second pair or a gut shot to fold, so your best option is to call.

2014, V.T., Playing Online Texas Hold ‘Em:


god draw

After sideboarding in 4 blasts and 3 primitive justices, you cannot and will not lose, unless they get the god draw of all god draws (which I've never actually seen).

1996 December 3, John Robertson, “Re: Red Burn/Hammer deck needs help vs. Turbo Stasis”, in rec.games.trading-cards.magic.strategy (Usenet):

With a god draw a lot of decks will have you dead 2nd turn.

1998 June 9, Ian, “Re: Pandemonium”, in rec.games.trading-cards.magic.strategy (Usenet):

Game one: Opponent gets the god draw and kills me by turn four.

2000 March 9, minkster [username], “PTQ Roanoke winners report”, in rec.games.trading-cards.magic.strategy (Usenet):

(collectible card games) A draw which is especially suited to a player's needs; an optimal draw.


multiland

Look at it this way- a two color deck can just have eight sources of another mana color by switching four basic lands of each of it's^([sic]) colors to multilands.

1995 September 4, Garry Handelman, “Re: Someone please discuss something interesting!!!”, in rec.games.trading-cards.magic.strategy (Usenet):

To pull off three colors successfully you have to have more than one multiland in your deck.

1995 October 23, n [username], “Re: B/U/W deck needs serious help!”, in rec.games.trading-cards.magic.strategy (Usenet):

This type of deck has to run lots of multilands to avoid colorscrew.

1997 January 1, Jim Hamp, “Re: How to defend against Type 1.5 Land destruction?”, in rec.games.trading-cards.magic.strategy (Usenet):

(Magic: The Gathering) A land card capable of producing more than one colour of mana.


god hand

My hand is a god hand, and he only has one land.

1997 March 2, Michael Card, “[PTQ Report] Vancouver, BC, Canada”, in rec.games.trading-cards.magic.strategy (Usenet):

With Hatred a second turn kill (with a god hand) is still possible if both player^([sic]) start the game with 100 life.

1998 December 10, Stewart L. Potter, “Re: how to fix magic”, in rec.games.trading-cards.magic.strategy (Usenet):

So, when I draw that god hand, I'll go buy the winning lottery ticket, and be struck by lightning, a plane crash and a motorcycle accident within 5 minutes, right? :)

1999 January 19, daoist [username], “Re: deadly combo at turn one”, in rec.games.trading-cards.magic.strategy (Usenet):

(collectible card games) A hand which is especially suited to a player's needs; an optimal hand.


Morton's fork

Said to have originated with the collecting of taxes by John Morton, Archbishop of Canterbury in the late 15th century, who held that a man living modestly must be saving money and could therefore afford taxes, whereas one living extravagantly was obviously rich and could still afford them.

(bridge) A coup in contract bridge that forces an opponent to choose between letting declarer establish extra tricks in the suit led, or losing the opportunity to win any trick in the suit led.


topdeck

en-verb

topdeck (third-person singular simple present topdecks, present participle topdecking, simple past and past participle topdecked)

topdecks (present singular third-person)
topdecking (participle present)
topdecked (participle past)
topdecked (past)

opp [...] was one turn short of death, when he topdecked wrath... i topdecked skizzik, but he had counter...

2002 January 7, Watman, “Re: [t2] deck critique - mono red (and counter-burn too)”, in rec.games.trading-cards.magic.strategy (Usenet), message-ID <a1dvht$mv9$3@news.tpi.pl>:

(collectible card games, transitive) To draw (a card) from one's deck and play it on the same turn.

I've countered, burned, destroyed pretty much everything he's played, but now I'm out of cards and so is he. So now it's a topdecking game.

1998 November 8, Steven Merritt, “Re: Is it really the Academy?”, in rec.games.trading-cards.magic.strategy (Usenet), message-ID <36461201.2C67@165.95.92.10>:

(collectible card games, intransitive) To draw cards from one's deck and play them immediately turn after turn because one has no other cards to play.


hand-for-hand

In a poker tournament consisting of multiple tables, the requirement that each next hand be dealt only after all tables have finished the current hand, to prevent players from stalling near an increase in the prize payouts, and/or when there must be a definitive player ranking.


build down

build down (third-person singular simple present builds down, present participle building down, simple past and past participle built down)

builds down (present singular third-person)
building down (participle present)
built down (participle past)
built down (past)

(card games) In solitaire card games, to place a card over another card of higher value (e.g. 4♦ over 5♣).


Flower Garden

(card games) A solitaire card game, starting with 36 cards (6 columns of 6 cards each) on the tableau. The sixteen leftover cards become the reserve, also called the bouquet.


Four Seasons

(card games) A solitaire card game, having five spaces for cards (the reserve) in the layout of a cross.


Baker's Dozen

(card games) A solitaire card game, starting with 13 piles of 4 cards each.


Pyramid

(card games) A solitaire card game where the cards are arranged as a triangle (a "pyramid") and the object is to get the cards from the bottom to the top.


Tower of Hanoy

(card games) A solitaire card game based on the Tower of Hanoi puzzle, starting with 3 columns of 3 cards, from A to 9. The object of the game is to build only one column with all the nine cards.


septleva

(card games, obsolete) In the game of faro, the situation where a player gains seven times the number he or she laid down.


casekeeper

(card games) An employee at a gambling establishment who assists the players and prevents dealer cheating by counting cards using an abacus-like device with counters on spindles.


carte anglaise

en-noun

carte anglaise (plural cartes anglaises)

Unadapted borrowing from French carte anglaise (literally “English card”).

ubor

(card games) The third card to be drawn by the dealer in the game of faro (after the soda and the banker's card), placed on the left of the shoe for the players.


high-card

Now that the fallacy of basing bids on high-card values only has been realized, experts are modifying their systems of valuation more and more, so as to count actual tricks and not merely high-card tricks (Quick Tricks or Honour Tricks).

2013, F. Courtenay, The Losing Trick Count - A Book of Bridge Technique:

(card games) Of or related to a high suit card.


monster hand

Pocket aces is a monster hand in no-limit hold-'em poker.

(poker) A powerful hand (group of cards of a player), one that will rarely be beaten.


cardistry

/ˈkɑːdɪstɹɪ/

The performance of card flourishing; visually impressive cuts, displays, fans, patterns and sequences with playing cards.


go set

en-verb

go set (third-person singular simple present goes set, present participle going set, simple past went set, past participle gone set)

goes set (present singular third-person)
going set (participle present)
went set (past)
gone set (participle past)

(card games) To fail to make bid, thereby earning a negative score.

Since Leon had no meld in our last canasta hand, he went set his red threes.

(card games, by extension) To earn a negative score, in any context.


pre-flop

Let's review the strategies for the pre-flop, flop, turn and river.

(poker) The period before the flop, particularly when players already have their hole cards.


pre-flop

pre-flop betting round

pre-flop raiser

(poker) Of or characteristic of the pre-flop.


pre-flop

raise pre-flop


triple barrel

(poker) The act of bluffing on the flop, turn and river in the same round.


triple barrel

triple barrel (third-person singular simple present triple barrels, present participle triple barreling or triple barrelling, simple past and past participle triple barreled or triple barrelled)

triple barrels (present singular third-person)
triple barreling (participle present)
triple barrelling (participle present)
triple barreled (participle past)
triple barreled (past)
triple barrelled (participle past)
triple barrelled (past)


rakeback

(poker) A rebate on the rake paid by a poker player.


top pair

My hand: K4. The table: 27K. I have top pair (KK).

(poker) A pair consisting of one hole card and the highest-ranking community card.


gap concept

(poker) The notion that a player should have higher standards to play against someone who has already bet (i.e., the player should play tighter, play fewer hands).


middle pair

My hand: 58. The table: 48T. I have middle pair (88).

(poker) A pair consisting of one hole card and a community card that is neither the highest-ranking (top pair) or the lowest-ranking (bottom pair).


bottom pair

My hand: K4. The table: 48T. I have bottom pair (44).

(poker) A pair consisting of one hole card and the lowest-ranking community card.


pokerclack

(poker) A tutting sound (with the tongue touching the front teeth) made by a poker player when seeing the hole cards. It is a deliberate exaggerated expression of sadness, considered a tell of having very good cards.


double gutshot

Example of double gutshot: My hole cards are 87. The board is A64T. With the right card on the river, I can make 8-high straight or T-high straight.

(poker) A drawing hand in which there are two gutshot possibilities, i.e., two opportunities at making a straight, either of which needs only one card.


WSOP

(poker) Any of the series of poker tournaments held annually in Las Vegas since 2005.


multitable

en-adj

multitable (comparative more multitable, superlative most multitable)

more multitable (comparative)
most multitable (superlative)

At this multitable tournament, 36 players will begin playing in four tables of nine players each.

Involving multiple tables (in various senses).

(poker, said of a poker tournament) Consisting of multiple tables.


multitable

en-verb

multitable (third-person singular simple present multitables, present participle multitabling, simple past and past participle multitabled)

multitables (present singular third-person)
multitabling (participle present)
multitabled (participle past)
multitabled (past)

(Internet poker) To play in multiple tables simultaneously.


effective stack size

en-noun

effective stack size (plural effective stack sizes)

Consider a heads-up no-limit game: if Player A has 40k chips and Player B has 70k chips, the effective stack size is 40k chips.

(poker) The maximum amount of chips in one's stack that is able to be wagered, after all the possible bets, raises and reraises.


main pot

Player A goes all-in with 300 chips. Player B raises, and goes all-in with 400 chips. Player C calls. Main pot = 900 chips (300 from each player). Side pot = 200 chips (the remaining 100 from players B and C).

(poker) The pot that contains the chips bet and raised by each player, up to the same amount wagered by the player all-in with the least amount of chips. Further bets and raises form the side pot or side pots.


side pot

(poker) A pot separated from the main pot, containing the chips bet and raised by players, up from the amount wagered by the player all-in with the fewest chips.


forced bet

(poker) The small blind, the big blind, or the ante.


Omaha high-low split

(poker) A variant of Omaha with high-low split (sharing the pot between the players with the highest and lowest hands).


high-low split

Omaha high-low split
Omaha high-low split

(poker) The rule, present in the game Omaha high-low split, of dividing the pot in half, between the player with the highest and lowest-ranking.


Huey, Dewey and Louie

After the nephews of Donald Duck in Disney cartoons.

Gentleman Johnny's Huey, Dewey and Louie are the next highest cards visible. The three twos look puny against light-fingered Tucker's kings, but Johnny's still in the pot.

2011, Warren Bull, Murder Manhattan Style, Untreed Reads, →ISBN, page 40:

(poker, slang) Three twos; a three of a kind of twos.


VPIP

Abbreviation of voluntarily placed (money) in the pot.

abbreviation of

If a player voluntarily puts money in the pot every two hands, their VPIP is 50%.

(poker) The percentage of hands where a player voluntarily placed money in the pot, if given the opportunity to do so.


M-ratio

M=(mbox stack)/(mbox smallblind+ mbox bigblind+ mbox totalantes)

A player in an eight-player game with blinds of $50/$100, an ante of $10, and a stack of $2,300 has an M-ratio of 10. It would take 10 orbits for their chips to deplete if they only fold each time.
M=(2300)/(50+100+(10×8))=(2300)/(230)=10

(poker) A measure of the health of one's stack: the stack divided by the sum of the small blind, the big blind and the antes of each player. The result (M) is the time (the number of orbits) it would take for one's chips to deplete if the player only passively places their forced bets and otherwise folds.


early position

(poker) The position of the first players to play the current hand, such as: UTG (under the gun), UTG+1, UTG+2.


late position

(poker) The position of the last players to play the current hand, usually not counting the blinds, such as: BTN (button), CO (cutoff).


middle position

(poker) The position of players between the early and the late position positions, such as: MP1, MP2, MP3.


rule of four

Coordinate term: rule of two

(poker) The rule of multiplying the number of outs by four to discover one's approximate chance to make one's hand on the turn or river. Compare rule of two.


rule of two

Coordinate term: rule of four

(poker) The rule of multiplying the number of outs by two to discover one's approximate chance to make one's hand on the river.


LAG

en-adj

LAG (comparative more LAG, superlative most LAG)

more LAG (comparative)
most LAG (superlative)

(poker) Loose (inclined to play many starting hands, including weak ones) and aggressive (inclined to raise often).


fold equity

en-noun

fold equity (usually uncountable, plural fold equities)

Alice holds A♣6♥. Brian holds 2♥2♦. Flop: 9♠7♣3♦. If there's no more betting, the pot equity at showdown is: Alice = 31.5%, Brian = 68.5%. But, if Alice bets and Brian is 70% likely to fold, then Alice's fold equity is 70% × 68.5% = 48.2925%. Total pot equity if Alice bets = 31.5% + 48.2925% = 79.7925%.

(poker) The portion of the pot one expects to win, on average, by a bet that induces opponents to fold, rather than by seeing the showdown.


cut signature

Jose Canseco Cut signature $7 Single-signature $40

1994, Mark K. Larson, The Complete Guide to Baseball Memorabilia, Iola, WI: Krause Publications, page 31:

(collectible card games) A card featuring an autograph cut from another document or signed on a separate piece of paper or cardboard

(collectible card games) An autograph produced for use on cards or for collecting


Black Lady

(card games) A combative variant of whist, similar to the game of hearts.


suck-out

(poker slang) Alternative form of suck out


in the tank

He went in the tank after his opponent put him all in.

(poker, slang) Contemplating a decision for a long time.


below the line

If they make 2 hearts they will score 60 points below the line but as this is the first hand of the game they will not have already made another part score.

2006, Barry Teare, Problem-Solving and Thinking Skills Resources for Able and Talented Children, page 118:

(bridge) Pertaining to points scored for tricks bid and won, which count towards game.


chemmy

We use him for eloping with heiresses, getting involved in drug scandals, and running illegal chemmy parties.

(UK, slang, card games) The card game called chemin de fer.


handplay

Combat sense: perhaps from Middle English *handpleie, from Old English handplega (“fighting”), equivalent to hand + play. Compare swordplay.

(card games) In the game of skat, the playing of one's hand without using the skat.


Old Frizzle

An ace of spades with a duty tax stamp similar to a banknote.


gtd

$100k gtd = at least 100,000 dollars are going to be split among the winners


BEWD

I wouldn't call that card "rare"- Konami packages one BEWD in each Seto Kaiba starter deck... That is a far cry from 'rare.'

2002 July 4, Edson plays Green Eyed Ctarl-Ctarl, “Re: YU-GI-OH CARDS”, in alt.fan.digimon (Usenet), message-ID <hlOU8.403520$cQ3.27251@sccrnsc01>:

Out of curiosity, I looked at some pricelists, and BEWD is usually one of the most expensive cards on them. Yes, these are rare BEWDs from the Blue Eyes White Dragon sets, […]

2002 December 18, Chris Mattern, “Re: Shonen Jump Yugioh card”, in rec.arts.anime.misc (Usenet), message-ID <uQqdnS5-EYKY2JyjXTWcqQ@comcast.com>:

After Duelist's Kingdom, Yuugi duels the granddaughter of his grandfather's friend, Arthur Hawkins, for the rights to Sugoroku's BEWD, which, if you remember, Seto Kaiba tore up.

2003 October 5, Mizu-chan (P. Frederickson), “Re: Yu-Gi-Oh cards site?”, in rec.arts.anime.games (Usenet), message-ID <3f8035cf_6@corp.newsgroups.com>:

There are two very collectible BEWD cards. This one, and the 1st Edition card from Legend of Blue Eyes White Dragon.

2005, Bill Gill, Pojo's Yu-Gi-Oh! Annual 2005, Triumph Books, →ISBN, page 83:

(fandom slang) Abbreviation of Blue-Eyes White Dragon (a trading card in the game of Yu-Gi-Oh!).


Flannery

Reduced Anglicized form of Irish Ó Flannabhra (“descendant of Flannabhra”), a personal name derived from flann (“blood red”) + abhra (“eyebrow”). The bridge convention was invented by American player William (Bill) L. Flannery.

der

(bridge) A convention using a 2♦ opening bid to show a hand of minimal opening bid strength (11-15 high card points) with exactly four spades and five (or sometimes six) hearts.


Yarborough

(bridge) A hand that contains no honors.


donkament

(poker, slang, derogatory) A poker tournament with a poor standard of play.


two-table

en-verb

two-table (third-person singular simple present two-tables, present participle two-tabling, simple past and past participle two-tabled)

two-tables (present singular third-person)
two-tabling (participle present)
two-tabled (participle past)
two-tabled (past)

(poker) To play at two tables simultaneously.


sheephead

When they retreated to the shade of a picnic table to swill lemonade or iced tea a cousin from the Dakotas showed them the finer points of sheephead, a card game of ancient vintage, not the actual beast's cranium. She picked it up right away.

2014, R. L. Sterup, Close to the Edge Down By the River:

(card games) Alternative form of sheepshead


calling station

en-noun

calling station (plural calling stations)

(poker, derogatory) A player who consistently calls bets and rarely (if ever) raises, regardless of the strength of their hand.


Moneymaker effect

The sudden growth in interest in poker after Chris Moneymaker won the 2003 World Series of Poker Main Event.


blocking bet

(poker) A small bet intended to discourage other players to place larger bets.


go nap

en-verb

go nap (third-person singular simple present goes nap, present participle going nap, simple past went nap, past participle gone nap)

goes nap (present singular third-person)
going nap (participle present)
went nap (past)
gone nap (participle past)

(card games) In the game of napoleon, to declare all five tricks success, rewarded by double payment all round.


dry pot

(poker) An empty side pot created when a player is all in and is called by at least two other players, but not raised. If subsequent betting occurs, the money will go to the dry pot.


Cadillac of poker

I play low limit hold'em, have become adept at reading most of the players and get frustrated when they hold 7-2 offsuit and beat me on the river. I always want to move all-in on these people, but who can you bluff with a 6 dollar bet? I agree with Brunson that no-limit is the Cadillac of poker games, but I want to learn how to play without losing my shirt.

1998 October 4, cnote, “Re: No Limit Hold'em”, in rec.gambling.poker (Usenet), message-ID <3617F4CD.735@ionet.net> <3617FB80.2A00@idt.net>:

If you've watched televised poker at all, you've no doubt heard no-limit hold 'em described as the "Cadillac of Poker."

2004, Two Plus Two Publishing LLC, Harrington on Hold 'em: Expert Strategy for No-limit Tournaments. Volume I: Strategic Play, Two Plus Two Publishing LLC, →ISBN, page 12:

I have stated time and time again, NL Holdem poker is not the best way to play this game. It is sold as being the Cadillac of Poker, when it really is a dump truck.

2004 May 26, Newgca, “GCA "Cadillac is a Dump Truck"”, in rec.gambling.poker (Usenet), message-ID <20040526021353.27047.00001740@mb-m19.aol.com>:

i blew my knee out rasslin so i'm gonna play some poker for a while to see how that goes. the cadillac of poker is my game. i've started out small. so far just been playing $5/$10 nl on bodog. […] what's the best book for learnin nl hold em games?

2006 April 23, Mucred Hennernessy, “book learnin for poker”, in rec.gambling.poker (Usenet), message-ID <jPE2g.130$821.52@fe06.lga>:

Prior to poker becoming widely televised, the movie Rounders (1998), starring Matt Damon and Edward Norton, gave moviegoers a romantic view of the game as a way of life. Texas hold 'em was the main game played during the movie and the no-limit variety was described, following Doyle Brunson, as the "Cadillac of Poker."

2014 August 20, Pepe Papon, “Re: 5 card, 7 card and 5 card draw!!”, in rec.gambling.poker (Usenet), message-ID <qtc8v9hdd94dhdl003m1fvemudr0o3uj2h@4ax.com>:

All of a sudden, Moneymaker proved to the world that the Cadillac of poker—the main event [no-limit Texas hold 'em] at the World Series of Poker—was winnable by a non-pro.

2016, Artur Katny, Ascendance: How to Unlock Your Inner Intelligence, Matrix Investments, →ISBN, page 72:


chelem

Borrowed from French chelem, from English slam.

If the grand chelem is made, the winner receives seventeen points from each adversary and the game continues; if twelve tricks are made, the winner receives the value of sixteen points.

1882, Laws and Regulations of Short Whist:

The authors would claim only that the 131 tables which summarise the results of their analyses give added precision to the bridge player's judgements when, for example, he considers how to play " le squouize " or whether to bid a " grand chelem ".

1956, The Mathematical Gazette, page 66:

The grand chelem is a contraot to take all the tricks, the petit chelem one to take all the tricks but two, in both cases after taking the talon and discarding.

1980, Michael A. E. Dummett, Sylvia Mann, The game of Tarot: from Ferrara to Salt Lake City, page 297:

(card games) The act or contract for winning all, or almost all, of the possible tricks.


MTT

en-noun

MTT (countable and uncountable, plural MTTs)

(poker) Initialism of Multi-Table Tournament.


pass the trash

(card games) The anaconda variant of poker.


miscaller

When the loser thinks he has the hand beat he turns over his hand only to find that the winner has miscalled his hand, and since "cards speak," the miscaller wins.

1983, David M. Hayano, Poker Faces: The Life and Work of Professional Card Players, page 59:

(poker) One who makes an incorrect call.


spit in the ocean

spit in the ocean (countable and uncountable)

(card games, uncountable) A variety of poker involving an extra dealt card shared by all players.


bring-in

(poker) An initial bet normally assigned on the first round of a stud poker game to the player whose upcards indicate the poorest hand.


snerts

I came to play snerts with them old ladies.

2009, Stan Jones, Village of the Ghost Bears, →ISBN:

Kiana came over to help clean and cook, and she and I would lure Go into the living room to play card games like snerts or three-way war, or we'd play trivia games or Uno.

2009, Mattox Roesch, Sometimes We're Always Real Same-Same, →ISBN, page 292:

(card games) A multi-player variation of patience in which each player has their own tableau but the foundations are in a common area between all the players.


Calamity Jane

Named after Calamity Jane (Martha Jane Canary or Cannary; 1852–1903), American frontierswoman.

(card games, slang) The queen of spades.


Indian rummy

(card games) A certain Indian variant of rummy, with 13 cards dealt to each player.


SMOrc

Abbreviation of Space Marine (name of a 2011 video game) + orc. Popularized by the 2015 YouTube video "SMOrc SONG - Face Never Trade" by DJ KARL THE DOG.

The use of SMOrc and similar emotes requires, and signifies, membership in the Twitch Hearthstone community.

2017, Colin Ford, Dan Gardner, Leah Elaine Horgan, Calvin Liu, a. m. tsaasan, Bonnie Nardi, Jordan Rickman, “Chat Speed OP PogChamp: Practices of Coherence in Massive Twitch Chat”, in CHI'17: Proceedings of the 2017 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems:


pair royal

Given a choice of pairing or making fifteen with the previously played card, prefer to peg 2 for the fifteen rather than make the pair and perhaps give your opponent a pair royal.

1979, David Parlett, The Penguin Book of Card Games (paperback), Penguin Books, →ISBN, page 343:

(card games) three of a kind in certain card games.


chest one's cards

en-verb

chest one's cards (third-person singular simple present chests one's cards, present participle chesting one's cards, simple past and past participle chested one's cards)

chests one's cards (present singular third-person)
chesting one's cards (participle present)
chested one's cards (participle past)
chested one's cards (past)

Another hand was dealt. Skookum chested his cards, looked down into them with one bright eye. The game went on.

1930, Lowry Charles Wimberly, Prairie Schooner - Volumes 4-5, page 231:

The request, "Chest your cards, please," or an equivalent, should be obeyed promptly.

1969, Conde nast publications, Vogue's book of etiquette and good manners, page 71:

Mark also loved to gamble, and wanted nothing more than to elope to Vegas. I did not. He found someone who did. There was one other thing I learned — I learned to chest my cards, because I was famous for flashing.

2003, Jake Austen, A Friendly Game of Poker: 52 Takes on the Neighborhood Game, →ISBN:

(card games) To hold one's hand close to one's chest so that other players cannot see the cards.


spider solitaire

en-noun

spider solitaire (countable and uncountable, plural spider solitaires)

Any of several variants of the solitaire (patience) card game that employs two packs of cards.


auto poker

(US) A game for passing the time during car journeys, in which the license plates of other vehicles are interpreted as hands of cards scored similarly to those in poker.


knock in

"Do you feel inclined to have a knock in for an hour?" said Charles, addressing Tom.
"I don't understand much of the game."
[…] He was seldom indeed without two good trumps, and therefore almost invariably loo'd those who stood.

1847, Henry Cockton, The Love Match, page 232:

(card games, archaic) The game of lanterloo.


Gay Gordons

If you're a Solitaire aficionado who knows more than one game, you'll be happy to know that AisleRiot Solitaire provides the following games: Agnes, Athena, […], Freecell, Gaps, Gay Gordons, Glenwood, Golf, […], Yukon, and Zebra.

2010, William von Hagen, Ubuntu Linux Bible, →ISBN:

A form of solitaire in which the goal is to remove all cards by creating pairs that add up to 11.


two-eyed jack

(card games, slang) Either card of the rank of jack commonly depicted in the frontal view of the jack of diamonds or jack of clubs.


limit bid

OK, you are the captain (partner opened with a limit bid).

2009, Eric v.d. Luft, How I Became a Life Master Playing the Weak No Trump, page 18:

When the responder made a limit bid, the opener may already be in a position to name the final contract.

2011, David Bird, Bridge Made Easy: Flash, page 5:

If you raise a partner's opening suit bid from one to two, it is also a limit bid, showing six to nine points.

2012, Harry Lampert, The Fun Way to Serious Bridge, page 62:

(bridge) A bid that describes the bidders hand fairly precisely (indicating a small range of high card points and some indication of shape.)


alertable

Bids marked in red on the convention card must be alerted. Cue-bids of an opponent's suit, however, are not alertable.

1991, Albert Hodges Morehead, Edmond Hoyle, The New Complete Hoyle, page 165:

ln general, natural bids are not Alertable.

1994, Audrey Grant, The Spade Series: An Introduction to Duplicate Bridge, page 165:

To alert those calls you may use the alert card in the bidding box or simply say "alert" when partner makes an alertable call.

2009, Jean J. Reaves, Conventional Wisdom Plus: A Comprehensive Guide to Modern Bridge Conventions:

(bridge) Requiring the partner of the person making a bid to alert the opponents that the bid's meaning involves a partnership understanding that is not readily understood.


non-alertable

To my dismay, the editorial in this month's Bridge World takes the opposite position, arguing that under the rules as written, alerting a non-alertable bid is a violation.

2018 May 24, Marty Harris, “Alert after non forcing bid”, in Bridge Winners:

(bridge) Not alertable; Not requiring the partner to alert as part of a partnership agreement.


mini-baccarat

(card games) A version of baccarat played at smaller tables for lower stakes, and having some differences in the rules.


puppy foot

From the resemblance of the club symbol to the pads of a dog's paw.

(card games, slang) A card in the suit of clubs.


summoning sickness

Many times creatures with summoning sickness will not get an opportunity to be used before they are destroyed.

1995, Charles Wolfe, Deep Magic: Advanced Strategies for Experienced Players of Magic: The Gathering, page 44:

The Factory may not be tapped to increase its own toughness if it suffers from summoning sickness.

1997, George H. Baxter, Baxter on Magic: A Guide to Proper Playing Techniques for Magic: The Gathering, page 22:

Perhaps the niftiest card in Duel Masters: Sempai Legends, Diamond Cutter enables all blockers to attack and cancels the effects of summoning sickness

2004, Mike Searle, Duel Masters: Sempai Legends: Prima Official Game Guide:

(collectible card games, originally and chiefly Magic: The Gathering) The inability of a creature to attack or use certain abilities during the turn when it comes into play.


go face

en-verb

go face (third-person singular simple present goes face, present participle going face, simple past went face, past participle gone face)

goes face (present singular third-person)
going face (participle present)
went face (past)
gone face (participle past)

Aggro decks often have a singular goal in mind, and that is to hit the opponent (“go face”) and kill their hero.

[2015 December 11, Ben Russell, “Types of Decks in Hearthstone – All Four Deck Types”, in The Gazette Review:

If they play Fandral and you have an easy way to kill it, do so, but otherwise simply keep going face to end the game quickly.

2016 June 19, Stephen Draper, “Pirate Warrior Guide”, in Esports Edition:

All of [the Charge card's] power level has to be balanced around "what if they go face with this?" so it becomes uninteresting to use in any other way.

2018 March 21, Tim Clark, quoting Dean Ayala, “Hearthstone's Iksar on The Witchwood, how Corridor Creeper got missed, and the mysterious best ladder player ever”, in PC Gamer:

It costs one more mana, but it comes with an extra two Attack, two Health, and, most importantly, the ability to go face.

2019 November 25, Jerome Heath, “Deranged Netherwing joins the Warlock class in Hearthstone’s Descent of Dragons expansion”, in Dot Esports:

(intransitive, Hearthstone) To attack or target the opponent directly, rather than their minions.


double chicane

(bridge) The situation where a player and his/her partner both hold hands without trumps.


beat my neighbour out of doors

en-noun

beat my neighbour out of doors (uncountable)

(card games) Synonym of beggar-my-neighbor


beat your neighbour out of doors

beat your neighbour out of doors (uncountable)


HCP

HCP (countable and uncountable, plural HCPs)


dumby

(card games) Archaic form of dummy (“hand shown to be played from by another player”).


set mine

en-verb

set mine (third-person singular simple present set mines, present participle set mining, simple past and past participle set mined)

set mines (present singular third-person)
set mining (participle present)
set mined (participle past)
set mined (past)

It is most profitable to set mine when you and your opponents have deep stacks.

(poker, Texas hold-em) To enter a hand with a low pair in hopes of flopping a set, i.e. three of a kind.


rookie card

(collectible card games) A sports card that is the first to feature an athlete after that athlete has participated in the highest level of competition within his or her sport.


luckbox

(poker, slang, derogatory) A player whose successes are the result of good luck.


dealer's choice

en-noun

dealer's choice (plural dealer's choices)

(card games) A game in which the dealer decides what variant to play and/or what stakes are to be bet.


pig's eye

(card games, slang, obsolete) The ace of diamonds.


overplay one's hand

en-verb

overplay one's hand (third-person singular simple present overplays one's hand, present participle overplaying one's hand, simple past and past participle overplayed one's hand)

overplays one's hand (present singular third-person)
overplaying one's hand (participle present)
overplayed one's hand (participle past)
overplayed one's hand (past)

(card games) To bet too much or play too aggressively based on one's excessive optimism in the quality of their cards.


stop-and-go

They'll also hit you with unexpected check-raises in unlikely situations and maybe even throw stop-and-gos at you from the blind.

2006, John Vorhaus, Killer Poker Online 2, page 149:

The stop-and-go is a play in which you call a raise from the big blind, and then push on any flop. In my opinion, the stop-and-go is another case of fancy play syndrome. I honestly can't remember the last time I used this play […]

Jonathan Little, Secrets of Professional Tournament Poker (volume 1)

(poker) A combination of moves in which, before the flop is dealt, the player calls on an opponent's raise, and then after the flop is dealt, goes all in, regardless of whether the flop works with their hand.


backraise

backraise (third-person singular simple present backraises, present participle backraising, simple past and past participle backraised)

backraises (present singular third-person)
backraising (participle present)
backraised (participle past)
backraised (past)

(poker) To raise after calling in the same round


downbet

downbet (third-person singular simple present downbets, present participle downbetting, simple past and past participle downbet or downbetted)

downbets (present singular third-person)
downbetting (participle present)
downbet (participle past)
downbet (past)
downbetted (participle past)
downbetted (past)

(poker) To bet a smaller amount than in the previous round of bets


banking game

(card games, gambling) A gambling game in which one or more punters play against a banker, who controls the game.


acepot

A form of jackpot poker in which a pair of aces (or better) is needed to open


shift the cut

shift the cut (third-person singular simple present shifts the cut, present participle shifting the cut, simple past and past participle shifted the cut)

shifts the cut (present singular third-person)
shifting the cut (participle present)
shifted the cut (participle past)
shifted the cut (past)

In the average game where the players keep their hands, and arms also, on the table there is little opportunity to shift the cut.

1902, S. W. Erdnase, Artifice, Ruse and Subterfuge at the Card Table: A Treatise on the Science and Art of Manipulating Cards:

The cards are slightly crimped, just enough to indicate to the cheater's sensitive fingers exactly where to shift the cut. This move cannot be made without a cover.

To surreptitiously restore a deck of cards to their original sequence after having cut the deck.


netdeck

Do you? Or do you just copy the latest netdeck and get your ass whupped?

1998, Tolun, “Rarity, is it really still neccessary?^([sic])”, in rec.games.trading-cards.magic.strategy (Usenet):

(slang, collectible card games, derogatory) A decklist copied from the Internet.


netdeck

netdeck (third-person singular simple present netdecks, present participle netdecking, simple past and past participle netdecked)

netdecks (present singular third-person)
netdecking (participle present)
netdecked (participle past)
netdecked (past)

I think we need to be able to reward the players who have turned up and put as much effort as any of us into their decks (probably more, if they aren't netdecking), but who aren't likely to ever graze the Top-8,[…]

2000, David Sutcliffe, “More thoughts on reviving Magic”, in uk.games.trading-cards.misc (Usenet):

(slang, collectible card games, derogatory) To use decklists copied from the Internet.


one turn kill

(collectible card games) A method of winning in a first round of the game. Especially used in card games where players take turns until all players finishes their turn to complete a round. Closely related to the concept of a one-hit kill in video games.


As-Nas

A variety of playing cards used to play the game.


heartsette

(card games) An early variant of the game of hearts, having a set of cards called the widow that must be taken by the player winning the first trick.


Klaberjass

(card games) A certain trick-taking card game in which the jack and nine of trumps earn the highest scores.


quintille

A form of ombre (card game) for five players


Hob Collingwood

(card games, obsolete, UK, North Country) The four of hearts, considered an unlucky card.


skin the lamb

(obsolete, card games) The game of lansquenet.


Irish loo

(card games) A form of lanterloo with no dummy and in which players are permitted to exchange their cards.


Jacoby transfer

en-noun

Jacoby transfer (plural Jacoby transfers)

Popularized by a 1956 article in The Bridge World by Oswald Jacoby.

(bridge) A convention in most bridge bidding systems initiated by responder following partner's no-trump opening bid that forces opener to rebid in the suit ranked just above that bid by responder.


Earl of Cork

(Ireland, slang, obsolete, card games) The ace of diamonds.


case the deck

en-verb

case the deck (third-person singular simple present cases the deck, present participle casing the deck, simple past and past participle cased the deck)

cases the deck (present singular third-person)
casing the deck (participle present)
cased the deck (participle past)
cased the deck (past)

(card games, gambling) To memorize which cards have been played thus far.


hole carding

(card games) The (licit or illicit) obtaining of knowledge of cards that are supposed to be hidden from view.


mechanic's grip

en-noun

mechanic's grip (plural mechanic's grips)

(card games) A way to hold a deck of playing cards in the hand, facilitating card tricks and cheating.


must-move

(poker) Describing a game or table at which the players are committed to move to another game if a seat opens up in that game.


card removal

(poker) The hands which the cards the player is holding prevent other players from holding.


Namyats

Reversed spelling of Stayman, the surname of Victor Mitchell's bridge partner, Samuel Stayman.

(bridge) A conventional agreement to open hands with a long major suit that are too strong for a direct preemptive opening with a 'two-under' transfer bid. When the long suit is in hearts, opener bids 4♣, and when it is in spades, opener bids 4♦.


HUM

highly unusual method
w:highly unusual method

(bridge) Initialism of highly unusual method: any of a class of contract bridge bidding systems that require advance preparation to contend with, and are usually restricted to the highest levels of tournament play.


brown sticker

(bridge) Designating a category of contract bridge conventional agreements that are difficult to defend against, and thus only permitted at high levels of tournament play.


Muiderberg

Named after the Dutch village that was home to its inventors, Onno Janssens and Willem Boegem.

(bridge) A bidding convention, a two-level preemptive opening based on a two-suiter with precisely a five-card major and a minor suit (four-card or longer). The 2♥ opening denotes five hearts and an unknown minor suit, whilst 2♠ denotes five spades and an unknown minor suit.


Grace's card

(Ireland, card games) The six of hearts.


winkle squeeze

(bridge) A squeeze in which a trick is offered to the defenders but whichever wins the trick is then endplayed.


bridge whist

A variety of whist with the additional rules that the players would take turns as dummy and that the trump suit would be deliberately chosen (including the option not to have one) on each deal rather than random


dead hand

dead hand (countable and uncountable, plural dead hands)

(card games) A hand that is dealt but not used during a card game.


beat Jack out of doors

(card games) Synonym of beggar-my-neighbor


poker die

A die bearing representations of playing cards on its sides, rather than numbers of pips; used in certain games to generate a poker hand.


winning hand

On the face of it, "Condor" has quite a winning hand. It offers a fast transit that no road vehicle can touch for door-to-door speed.

1960 January, G. Freeman Allen, “"Condor"—British Railways' fastest freight train”, in Trains Illustrated, page 45:

A handful of cards held by a player that beats all others in a card game.


spadilla

(card games) The queen of clubs, in certain games.


Shasta Sam

(card games) A variant of the card game California Jack in which the stock of undealt cards is kept face-down.


idiot end

Idiot end example: a player forms a straight with the hole card 5♣ and community cards 6♥7♦8♠9♦. This can be beaten by an opponent holding any 10 card.

(poker, derogatory) A straight or straight flush hand formed by combining one or more low hole cards with the community cards, which is vulnerable to be beaten by an opponent using one or more higher hole cards to form a better hand of the same type.


spot card

(card games, US) A playing card which is not a picture card; a card of low value.


flag-flying

(bridge) Bidding more or less rashly in order to liven up the game.


four flush

(poker) A hand that is one card short of being a full flush.


keep the flag flying

en-verb

keep the flag flying (third-person singular simple present keeps the flag flying, present participle keeping the flag flying, simple past and past participle kept the flag flying)

keeps the flag flying (present singular third-person)
keeping the flag flying (participle present)
kept the flag flying (participle past)
kept the flag flying (past)

In spite of Y's double and in spite of the fact that the spade suit is not of the slightest use to him, as A cannot get any discards on it, A bids two hearts not only to keep the flag flying and prevent Z from going game but with high hopes that Y's double is a bluff.

1911, Advanced Auction Bridge, page 158:

[…] all I know is that to keep the flag flying is an accepted part of bridge, […]

1929, The Sketch: A Journal of Art and Actuality, volume 147, page 96:

(bridge) To bid more or less rashly in order to liven up the game.


boardcard

There is a betting round, and the dealer burns and turns a final boardcard.[…]At Texas holdem, each player receives two cards to start, and at the showdown may play both individual cards and three boardcards, called “playing the board.”

1984, Louisiana Administrative Code; Title 42: Louisiana Gaming, page 71:

Texas Hold ’Em and Omaha Poker / These poker games involve cards dealt to the players as well as boardcards that can be mutually used to improve hands. Players are dealt two downcards in Texas Hold ’Em, followed by a series of betting rounds. With each betting round, a new boardcard is added.

1997, Vincent H. Eade, Raymond H. Eade, Introduction to the Casino Entertainment Industry, Prentice Hall, →ISBN, page 136:

Three boardcards are turned simultaneously and another round of betting occurs. The next two boardcards are turned one at a time, with a round of betting after each.

2007, Proceedings of the Twenty-Second AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AAAI Press, →ISBN, page 490:

(poker) One of a set of cards that are dealt face up, from which a certain number of cards may be (or must be, depending on the game) used to create each player's final hand.


come hand

This has several bad implications. For one, you'll lose the ability to steal pots when you make a small pair on the next card. When you sometimes bet come hands, your opponents know that you often can have real betting hands as well.

(poker) A hand of cards that is not yet complete but has the potential to become a powerful hand when further cards are dealt or shown.


approach-forcing

Coined by Ely Culbertson in the early 1930's to describe the bidding system that he invented.

[…] the approach-forcing system and other less widely known systems offer a helping hand to the beginner […]

1934, Literary Digest, volume 118, number 11, page 38:

My acquaintance with trick values, "approach-forcing," the pitfalls of no-trump, the conventions and the various "systems" has come by word of mouth or by painful experience at the card table.

1937 March, Silas Bent, “Should we abolish bridge? Yessir!”, in The Rotarian, page 10:

(bridge) A bidding system in which the responder does not support a partner's bid suit without 4 card support or 3 cards plus a Queen or higher, never passes an opening 1 bid while holding one and a half honor tricks or more, always responds with an indication of hand strength, and in which a 2 opener or jump bid is considered forcing to game. No Trump is used as a negative response when forced to bid.


royal straight flush

en-noun

royal straight flush (plural royal straight flushes)


sit under

en-verb

sit under (third-person singular simple present sits under, present participle sitting under, simple past and past participle sat under)

sits under (present singular third-person)
sitting under (participle present)
sat under (participle past)
sat under (past)

(card games) To be on the right side of a player.


one-eyed king

(card games, slang) The king of diamonds in a deck of playing cards.


nineteen hand

So called because 19 is one of the few scores between 0 and 29 that cannot actually be achieved.

(cribbage, humorous) A hand of cards that scores no points.


crazy eight

(card games) Alternative form of crazy eights


nut straight

(poker) The best possible straight available (it can't be beaten by any other straight, though it can still be beaten by a better non-straight hand).


nut full house

(poker) The best possible full house available.


nut flush

(poker) The best possible flush available.


500 rum

(card games) A variant of rummy in which each player scores the value of the sets or cards they meld.


poverty poker

(card games) A variety of poker in which players can only lose a certain maximum amount, after which they can continue to play regardless of the loss.


weakie

And now we enter the real chess arena, where, haughty about ratings, everybody has only one thought in mind: to win — to pile up plaudits against the county grader's autumnal assessment. And to this end we all hope for a weaker opponent, but in the tournaments there are no outright weakies.

2010, John Healy, Coffeehouse Chess Tactics: An Astonishing Trip Into the World of Competitive Chess, Alkmaar, Netherlands: New In Chess, page 17:

(especially chess and poker, rare) An unskilled player.


inside straight

en-noun

inside straight (plural inside straights)

inside straight draw
inside straight draw#English


boathouse rummy

(card games) A variant of rummy in which players must draw additional cards in certain circumstances.


Life Master

(bridge) A player who has been awarded 300 or more masterpoints in certain types of tournament by the American Contract Bridge League.


BRM

(poker) Abbreviation of Bankroll Management.


open-ender

open ended straight draw
open ended straight draw#English

(poker) Synonym of open ended straight draw


German whist

(card games) A variation of whist for two players, probably of British origin.


ace-high

an ace-high straight flush

(card games) Of a hand, in which an ace is the highest-ranking card.


knock rummy

(card games) A variant of rummy in which a player may signal (through knocking or a specific kind of discard) that they have a valid hand.


seven-card stud

(poker) A version of stud poker where each individual receives seven cards, three face down and four face up.


Chinese bezique

(card games) A variant of bezique played with six decks.


straight poker

(card games) The oldest form of the game of poker, in which a complete hand is dealt to each player, and players bet in one round, with raising and re-raising allowed.


riffle shuffle

(card games) A technique of shuffling a deck of playing cards by first separating the deck into two parts.


Minnesota whist

(card games) A simplified version of whist in which there are no trumps and the goal is to take seven of the thirteen tricks.


costly colours

Other games were cribbage, all fours, ruff and honours, French ruff, five cards, costly colours, bon ace, putt, plain dealing, Queen Nazareen, pennech, post and pair, bankafalat, beast.

1882, John Ashton, Social Life in the Reign of Queen Anne, page 104:

An English card game for two players, similar to cribbage and particularly popular in Shropshire.


outchip

en-verb

outchip (third-person singular simple present outchips, present participle outchipping, simple past and past participle outchipped)

outchips (present singular third-person)
outchipping (participle present)
outchipped (participle past)
outchipped (past)

If someone before you comes in with a CSI of 22, you should continue to act as a CSI of 15. However, if it's folded to you on the button, you outchip both of your remaining opponents.

2007, Lee Nelson, Tysen Streib, Kim Lee, Kill Everyone: Advanced Strategies for No-Limit Hold 'Em Poker Tournaments and Sit-n-Go's, Las Vegas, N.V.: Huntington Press, →ISBN, page 68:

(poker, rare) To have more (poker chips) than.


pangeni

… fargo, craps, draw poker, studhorse poker, pangeni or pangene, twenty-one …

(obsolete, card games) Alternative spelling of panguingue.


Vienna coup

First published by James Clay (1804-1873), who had observed it being executed in the days of whist by "the greatest player in Vienna" — identity unknown.

(bridge) An unblocking technique in contract bridge made in preparation for a squeeze play.


one-outer

It is even more aggravating if you are a serious professional poker player who has just invested several hours in patiently awaiting his good hand of the day, only to have it cracked and smashed to bits by some loudmouth drunken slob who never even bothered to look at his cards, raised everything, and in the end sucked out a one-outer to beat you.

2014, Victor H. Royer, Powerful Profits From Poker:

(poker) A hand that wins after receiving the only possible remaining card that could transform it into the best hand.


AFq

aggression frequency
aggression frequency#English

(poker) Initialism of aggression frequency.


TPTK

(poker) Initialism of top pair top kicker.


schafskopf

en-noun

schafskopf (countable and uncountable, plural schafskopfs)

From German Schafskopf (literally “sheep's head”).

bor

(card games, uncountable) Synonym of sheepshead (“card game”)


French ruff

(obsolete, card games) Synonym of triomphe


oudler

(card games) In French tarot card games, any of the three most valuable trump cards.


deckbuilder

Michael Mikaelian will be taking a break from this column to spend time with his lovely new wife Shanna. Starting next month, master Star Wars CCG deckbuilder Woj (fill-in-the-blanks) Jankowski will be taking over for him.

1999 May, Duelist, volume 6, number 5/37, Renton, Wash.: Wizards of the Coast, Inc., →ISSN, page 80:

Another major benefit of having teammates is access to their ideas. You may be an excellent player but a mediocre deckbuilder, while one of your friends is an excellent deckbuilder but a substandard player.

2002 July/August, Mary Van Tyne, “Teamwork pays off in Magic”, in Scrye, number 52, page 44, column 1:

After all, there are many ways to succeed in the Magic: The Gathering game. Which path will you choose? Innovative deckbuilder? Storyline expert? Art aficionado? Most sage mage? Savvy collector?

2007, Lorwyn: Player’s Guide, Renton, Wash.: Wizards of the Coast, Inc., page 14:

Although Matt did not play the most mainstream decks, he always had a gameplan on how to beat the top tournament decks. Matt’s identity as a renegade deckbuilder has also inspired me to adopt a similar approach over the years.

2016 May 5, James Hsu, Magic: The Addiction: My 20-Year Gaming Journey, Charleston, S.C.: [CreateSpace], →ISBN, page 102:

One who constructs a deck of playing cards in certain games where players can make decisions about which cards to include.

GENRE / Deckbuilder […] It’s not necessarily the engine most would jump to when thinking of a deckbuilder, but Monster Train is indeed built using Unity. […] There can never be a guarantee that something will be good, of course, but Shiny Shoe appears to be making all the right moves in ensuring its deckbuilder has all the ingredients necessary to both stand out in an ever-more crowded field, and to actually be pretty good.

2020 April 9, “Monster Train: Bringing a twist to your standard deckbuilding card game”, in Ryan Lambie, editor, Wireframe, number 36, Cambridge, Cambs.: Raspberry Pi (Trading) Ltd, →ISSN, pages 10–11:

Dedicated collectible card games and deckbuilders have enjoyed huge success recently, as we’ve seen with CCGs Hearthstone and Magic: The Gathering, along with the excellent deckbuilder Slay The Spire.

2021 April, Edge, number 356, Bath, Somerset: Future Publishing Limited, →ISSN, page 57:

Nadir: A Grimdark Deckbuilder

2022 December, The Games Machine, number 395, Milan: Aktia srl, →ISSN, page 18:

A card game or board game where construction of a deck of cards is a main element of gameplay.

This is the recommended finish and no other finish or treatment is necessary although some deckbuilders will want to stain their new deck to match the house or other garden structures.

1975 May 4, “Barbecue deck gets summer off the ground”, in Independent Press-Telegram, volume 23, number 41, Long Beach, Calif., page H-7:

Traditionally, deckbuilders have always installed boards with the bark side facing up, presuming that if the boards cup from exposure to moisture the cupping will be directed against the joist, preventing the surface of the deck from becoming uneven.

1998, Jim Barrett et al., Landscape Structures & Decks, Minnetonka, Minn.: Handyman Club of America, →ISBN, page 134:

By the way, can you figure out the opportunity cost of building the deck yourself? It would be $18,000 (60 hours × $300). So you would save yourself $16,800 (the $18,000 that you earned – the $1,200 you paid the deckbuilder).

2005, Stephen L. Slavin, “The Export-Import Sector”, in Economics, 7th edition, New York, N.Y.: McGraw-Hill/Irwin, →ISBN, page 168:

Some deckbuilders cut strips of ½-inch-thick exterior plywood to the same dimension as the beam members and sandwich the plywood between the boards.

2016, Black+Decker, The Complete Outdoor Builder: From Arbors to Walkways, 150 DIY Projects, Minneapolis, Minn.: Cool Springs Press, Quarto Publishing Group USA Inc., →ISBN, page 191:

One who constructs a deck (raised flat surface that can be walked on).


full of

Queens full of nines — three queens and two nines.

The strongest possible full house is aces full of kings — three aces and two kings.

Full house. Eights full of aces. A higher full house. Aces full of sixes.

2006 November 14, Casino Royale, spoken by Dealer (Andreas Daniel):

(poker) Used to designate a type of full house; the three of a kind is "full of" the pair.


solo whist

A trick-taking card game for four players in which players can bid to make eight tricks in trumps with any partner, or a solo contract playing against the other three players.


stone bubble

(poker) The point in a poker tournament where after one more player is eliminated all players will be guaranteed prize money (but the eliminated player receives no prize money).


stone bubble

en-verb

stone bubble (third-person singular simple present stone bubbles, present participle stone bubbling, simple past and past participle stone bubbled)

stone bubbles (present singular third-person)
stone bubbling (participle present)
stone bubbled (participle past)
stone bubbled (past)

(poker) To be the last player eliminated in a poker tournament to receive no prize money, with all remaining players guaranteed to receive a prize.


Yugituber

Myutants, the new World Premiere Theme, have a solid chunk of their cards revealed courtesy of yugituber Ruggles.

2020 October 21, Deadborder, “[PHRA-EN] Myutants”, in YGOrganization, archived from the original on 2020-11-01:

With Yugituber Reveal Openings now out, it’s time to find out just what’s in the upcoming Yu-Gi-Oh! Speed Duel GX: Duel Academy Box.

2022 March 11, Tinker, “[Speed Duel GX Box] The 8 Decklists”, in YGOrganization, archived from the original on 2022-05-26:

Yu-Gi-Tubers provide a constant stream of Yu-Gi-Oh! content, including analysis of new cards and archetypes, combo tutorials, and banlist breakdowns.

2022 September 11, Drew Heckman, “Why Yu-Gi-Oh!'s Fan-Made Community Is an Essential Resource for New Players”, in CBR, archived from the original on 2022-09-11:

(fandom slang) A YouTuber who makes videos about Yu-Gi-Oh!


penneech

(obsolete) An old English card game for two players with hands of seven cards, and the trump suit changing with each trick.


sit over

sit over (third-person singular simple present sits over, present participle sitting over, simple past and past participle sat over)

sits over (present singular third-person)
sitting over (participle present)
sat over (participle past)
sat over (past)

(card games) To be on the left side of a player.


bumble puppy

Templeton isn't the sort of chap to play bumble-puppy bridge with a girl like that unless he's getting something out of it.

1947, W. Somerset Maugham, Creatures of Circumstance:

(card games) A simplified form of whist; whist or bridge played unskilfully.


no trumps

(bridge) A bid or contract without any suit designated as trumps.

(bridge) A play without any designated trump suit.


Russian Bank

(card games) A type of card game similar to solitaire.