capot

From French capot. Doublet of kaput and capote.

There are three chances in this game, viz., the repique, pique, and capot[…]The Capot is , when either of the Players make every Trick , for which he is to count forty ; instead of which he counts but ten , when he only gets the Majority of the Tricks, which is called , the Cards

1744, Edmond Hoyle, A Short Treatise on the Game of Piquet:

A curious score was made in a game of piquet with one of the ladies. [...] In the fifth hand she made a piquet and capot, scoring 121 to 0, and in the sixth hand, being the minor, she made a repiquet, taking all but the last trick, counting 111 to 3, totalling 270, and rubiconing her opponent at 99, with a win of 469 points.

1902 November, Walter Del Mar, “London to Colombo”, in Around the World through Japan, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC, pages 3–4:

(card games) A winning of all the tricks in the game of piquet, counting for forty points.


repique

(card games) In piquet, a bonus of 60 points awarded to a player who scores 30 points during the declaration phase, prior to the opponent scoring anything.


repique

en-verb

repique (third-person singular simple present repiques, present participle repiquing, simple past and past participle repiqued)

repiques (present singular third-person)
repiquing (participle present)
repiqued (participle past)
repiqued (past)

(card games, transitive) To score a repique against.


court card

Unlike the numbered cards, these represent people of the kind that might be found at a royal court.

1999: Simon Blackburn, Think: A compelling introduction to philosophy, chapter 6: Reasoning, section 5: Plausible Reasonings, page 212 (Oxford University Press, paperback, →ISBN
There are fifty-two outcomes possible when we turn up a card, and if we do it from a freshly and fairly shuffled pack, each possibility has an equal chance. Probabilistic reasoning can then go forward: we can solve, for instance, for whether most draws of seven cards involve two court cards, or whatever.

(card games) A king, queen, or jack or knave card in a standard deck of playing cards.


free ride

(poker) A hand in which a player can remain without betting further money.


whangdoodle

whangdoodles (plural)
whang-doodle (alternative)

Of American origin circa 1856. Popularized by appearing in a sermon parody attributed to William P. Brannan as "Where the lion roareth and the whangdoodle mourneth for her first-born," published in The Harp of a Thousand Strings: Or, Laughter for a Lifetime (1858).

It is sometimes agreed in advance that after a hand of certain rank, such as Four of a Kind or a Full House, is shown, a Whangdoodle or Jackpot must be played[…]

1940, Clement Wood, Gloria Goddard, The Complete Book of Games, page 296:

(poker) A ruling in which the opening stake limits are doubled for the next play after the appearance of a very good hand.


nontrump

(chiefly attributive, card games) Any card that is not a trump.


bouillotte

(card games) A rapidly-played variety of brelan or gleek (a card game resembling poker)


two of a kind

(card games) A combination of two cards of the same rank.

(card games) A hand in which the best combination is two of a kind.


on tilt

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(poker) Playing badly, usually overaggressively because of losing hands.


Klondike

Klondike Gold Rush
Klondike River
Klondike, Yukon

From Klondike, a region in the Yukon territory of Canada that saw a gold rush, named after the Klondike River. A corruption of Hän Tr'ondëk (“hammerstone water”) or Gwich'in throndiuk (“hammer-water”).

(card games) A particular solitaire card game, requiring ordering randomly ordered cards according to rank.


his nob

From nob, mimicking a form of address like Your Highness.

his knob (alternative)
his nobs (alternative)
His Nobs (alternative)
his nibs (alternative)
His Nibs (alternative)

Cribbage is a most virtuous and respectable game, and yet scarcely, one would think, possessing in itself sufficient attractions to keep a young gentleman in his twentieth year tied to the board, and going through the quaint calculation night after night of "fifteen two, fifteen four, two for his nob, and one for his heels."

1860, Thomas Hughes, “Tom Brown at Oxford”, in Macmillan's magazine, volume 1:

(card games, chiefly cribbage) a jack; a knave


fleurettes

She commenced her conversation with the King and his companion by saying, "Pray, do not suspend your fleurettes on my account; next to being in love myself, I like to see other people in love. I shall be a charming confidante.....Christina drew to the card-table, and, lolling upon it with her usual indifference, began to watch the progress of the game, which was now resumed."

1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Francesca Carrara. […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, pages 188 and 221:

(card games) A card game from the seventeenth century.


ante in

ante in (third-person singular simple present antes in, present participle anteing in, simple past and past participle anted in)

antes in (present singular third-person)
anteing in (participle present)
anted in (participle past)
anted in (past)


stand pat

stand pat (third-person singular simple present stands pat, present participle standing pat, simple past and past participle stood pat)

stands pat (present singular third-person)
standing pat (participle present)
stood pat (participle past)
stood pat (past)

Probably originally a poker phrase, with "pat" equaling "optimal", meaning that drawing more cards is unnecessary. Later the phrase came to be employed in other spheres. "Stand pat" was actively used in U.S. political campaigns of the 1900s, quickly gaining a sense of "being reactionary, resistant to dramatic changes in policy". Moreover, a noun, standpatter, was coined to denote such politicians.

With a mixed hand and the highest card the curse of Scotland, I've seen that man stand pat in a game with four millionaire mining men.

1920, Peter B. Kyne, chapter IV, in The Understanding Heart:

(intransitive, poker) To play one's hand without drawing any more cards.


lammer

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(poker) A voucher, issued to a tournament winner, that waives the entry fee or buy-in for a larger tournament.


five of a kind

(card games) five cards of the same rank, often only possible if one or more wild cards are being used.


cold deck

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From the metaphor that the deck (of cards) is cold, in the sense "heartless, emotionless".

(poker) A hand where two or more players have very strong hands and one or more of them loses a lot of chips despite the strength of the hand(s) involved.


play the board

play the board (third-person singular simple present plays the board, present participle playing the board, simple past and past participle played the board)

plays the board (present singular third-person)
playing the board (participle present)
played the board (participle past)
played the board (past)

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(poker) To have as one's best hand the communal cards on the board. A player in such a situation can only achieve a split pot, since all the other players can also play the board.


split pot

(poker) A hand where two or more players have hands of equal value, and the chips in the pot are split equally between them.


runner-runner

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Seat 8 has eight outs twice (the four nines and four remaining aces), plus another 4% for the runner-runner flush draw

2009, Jonathan Gelling, Poker Tips that Pay: Expert Strategy Guide for Winning No Limit Texas Hold Em, page 300:

(poker) Describing a situation where the last two community cards make a winning hand for a player who was previously behind.


limp in

limp in (third-person singular simple present limps in, present participle limping in, simple past and past participle limped in)

limps in (present singular third-person)
limping in (participle present)
limped in (participle past)
limped in (past)

(poker) Before the flop, to call as opposed to raising.


flat call

flat call (third-person singular simple present flat calls, present participle flat calling, simple past and past participle flat called)

flat calls (present singular third-person)
flat calling (participle present)
flat called (participle past)
flat called (past)

(poker) To call a raise, as opposed to folding or reraising.


flat call

(poker) An instance of flat calling; a call.


smooth call

smooth call (third-person singular simple present smooth calls, present participle smooth calling, simple past and past participle smooth called)

smooth calls (present singular third-person)
smooth calling (participle present)
smooth called (participle past)
smooth called (past)

I flopped the nut flush but just smooth called when the guy bet in front of me - I didn't want to scare anybody out

2000, Lee Jones, Winning low-limit hold'em, page 189:

(poker) To call a raise, as opposed to folding or reraising, often to disguise the strength of one's hand.


postflop

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crazy eights

We played crazy eights, war, fifty-two card pickup. Rudy flipped the whole deck across the table at me and the cards sailed to the floor, kings, queens, deuces.

2004, Karen Salyer McElmurray, Strange Birds in the Tree of Heaven:

(card games) A card game in which players try to rid themselves of their cards by playing a matching rank or suit on the previous card played, having to draw an additional card if unable to do this; a player who plays an eight can dictate the suit to be played next.

seiska

similar card game, seven instead of eight


deck out

deck out (third-person singular simple present decks out, present participle decking out, simple past and past participle decked out)

decks out (present singular third-person)
decking out (participle present)
decked out (participle past)
decked out (past)

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(intransitive, card games) To forfeit by running out of cards in a deck.


yarborough

After the second Earl of Yarborough (b. 1809), who supposedly bet 1,000 to 1 that such a hand would not occur.

(card games) A hand, in bridge or whist, that has no card with a value greater than nine (and no aces), though in some circles it is no card above a ten.


cooncan

Tea Cake and Janie playing checkers; playing coon-can; playing Florida flip on the store porch all afternoon as if nobody else was there.

1937, Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Amistad, published 2013, page 110:

(card games) A card game originally from Mexico, similar to rummy where the object is to form sequences.


overtrump

overtrump (third-person singular simple present overtrumps, present participle overtrumping, simple past and past participle overtrumped)

overtrumps (present singular third-person)
overtrumping (participle present)
overtrumped (participle past)
overtrumped (past)

(card games) To play a higher trump card than the previous one in a trick.


overcaller

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The no-trump overcaller completes the transfer, and his partner will bid again when strong.

2007 May 19, Phillip Alder, “The Cavendish Wasn’t the Only Game in Town”, in New York Times:


offsuit

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off-suit (alternative)
off suit (alternative)

He has jack-ten offsuit in the big blind

(card games, chiefly poker) Of two or more cards, not of the same suit.


draw dead

draw dead (third-person singular simple present draws dead, present participle drawing dead, simple past drew dead, past participle drawn dead)

draws dead (present singular third-person)
drawing dead (participle present)
drew dead (past)
drawn dead (participle past)

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Player A has Q8. Player B has J10. Table: J2J8. Player A made a pair, but he is drawing dead.

(poker) To play a drawing hand that is inevitably going to lose, no matter what the remaining community cards are.


community card

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(poker, chiefly in the plural) Any of the cards which appear on the board and can be a part of any player's hand.


pagat

Ultimately from Italian bagatto (“magician”).

(card games) The first trump card in a Tarock deck.


check-call

check-call (third-person singular simple present check-calls, present participle check-calling, simple past and past participle check-called)

check-calls (present singular third-person)
check-calling (participle present)
check-called (participle past)
check-called (past)

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(poker) To check and then call a bet by another player in the same betting round.


check-call

(poker) A call made by a player who checked previously in the same betting round.


GTO

(poker) Initialism of Game Theory Optimal.


grandfather's clock

en-noun

grandfather's clock (countable and uncountable, plural grandfather's clocks)

(uncountable, card games) A form of patience in which cards are laid out in an arrangement resembling a clock face.


draw live

en-verb

draw live (third-person singular simple present draws live, present participle drawing live, simple past drew live, past participle drawn live)

draws live (present singular third-person)
drawing live (participle present)
drew live (past)
drawn live (participle past)

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(poker, of a player) After the flop or turn, to be able to win a particular hand, depending on the remaining community cards.


underpair

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(poker) A pocket pair of a lower rank than all of the community cards on the board.


seven-up

(card games) A card game similar to all fours, won by scoring seven points.


outhold

outhold (third-person singular simple present outholds, present participle outholding, simple past outheld, past participle outheld or (obsolete) outholden)

outholds (present singular third-person)
outholding (participle present)
outheld (past)
outheld (participle past)
outholden (obsolete participle past)

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From Middle English outholden, equivalent to out- + hold. Cognate with Scots outhald (“to outhold”).

(poker) To hold longer than another player.


misbid

misbid (third-person singular simple present misbids, present participle misbidding, simple past misbid or misbad or misbade, past participle misbidden)

misbids (present singular third-person)
misbidding (participle present)
misbid (past)
misbad (past)
misbade (past)
misbidden (participle past)

From the fusion of Middle English misbidden (to mistreat; equivalent to mis- + bid) and Middle English misbeden (“to mistreat; abuse; outrage; offend; insult”), from Old English misbēodan (“to ill-use, injure, do wrong to, announce wrongly”), equivalent to mis- + bid (“to offer, declare”).

inh

After apologizing profusely for his errors on the first two hands, he misbid the last hand and they ended up in fifth place.

2004, Jim Priebe, Takeout Double: A Bridge Mystery:

(ambitransitive, card games) To bid incorrectly; bid higher or lower than actual.


stack off

en-verb

stack off (third-person singular simple present stacks off, present participle stacking off, simple past and past participle stacked off)

stacks off (present singular third-person)
stacking off (participle present)
stacked off (participle past)
stacked off (past)

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Only thing notable here is when I got crushed trying to take Barry's BB (I was SB). Raised him a couple thousand with K9s, then he went allin. I should have folded, as I needed to call about T7000 more, for about a T13500 pot, but without really thinking I stacked off on him. He had KQ, and I couldn't suck out. Next round, I raised him again, and he went allin on an ugly flop, so I lost a bunch more.

1995, zorak, “From Nonplused to Nihilistic (BARGE '95 TripReport)”, in rec.gambling.misc (Usenet):

(poker slang, of two or more players) To play an all in pot; to commit all of one's chips to a pot.


UTG

Initialism of under the gun. From the fact that being UTG (i.e., the first to play) is often considered a strategically disadvantageous position.

The UTG player.

(poker) Sitting to the left of the big blind (BB), thus being the first to play in many varieties of poker, including Texas hold 'em and Omaha.


UTG

Playing UTG.


UTG

UTG raises 3 big blinds.


hero call

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(poker slang) a call, usually on the river, made with a weak hand.


crying call

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(poker slang) A call made by a player with a weak hand because he or she already has a large amount of money in the pot.


color up

color up (third-person singular simple present colors up, present participle coloring up, simple past and past participle colored up)

colors up (present singular third-person)
coloring up (participle present)
colored up (participle past)
colored up (past)
colour up (alternative)

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(poker) To exchange a high number of low-value chips (of one color) for a lower number of higher value (of a different color), but keeping the same overall value.


ITM

(finance, poker slang) Initialism of in the money.


unraised

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(poker) Having not been raised pre-flop.


undertrump

undertrump (third-person singular simple present undertrumps, present participle undertrumping, simple past and past participle undertrumped)

undertrumps (present singular third-person)
undertrumping (participle present)
undertrumped (participle past)
undertrumped (past)

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(card games) To play a lower trump card than the previous one in a trick.


suck out

suck out (third-person singular simple present sucks out, present participle sucking out, simple past and past participle sucked out)

sucks out (present singular third-person)
sucking out (participle present)
sucked out (participle past)
sucked out (past)
suck-out (alternative)

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Poker is not, nor should it be, a passionless, colorless, characterless game; there's too much at stake: money and reputation, perhaps foremost. Miraculous suck-out victories and tragic suck-out beats will always engender a response, good and bad, classy and tacky.

2008, Lee Robert Schreiber, Poker as Life: 101 Lessons from the World's Greatest Game, page 126:

(poker slang) To win a hand, usually on a showdown, by hitting a card on the turn or river to make a better hand than one's opponent, even though one had a significantly inferior hand on the flop.


suck out

suck outs (plural)
suck-out (alternative)

(poker slang) An instance of winning a hand by sucking out.


slow roll

slow roll (third-person singular simple present slow rolls, present participle slow rolling, simple past and past participle slow rolled)

slow rolls (present singular third-person)
slow rolling (participle present)
slow rolled (participle past)
slow rolled (past)
slow-roll (alternative)
slowroll (alternative)

(poker slang) To make a long pause before calling an all-in bet with a strong, usually very strong, hand.

(poker slang) To make a long pause before revealing one's winning hand.


slow roll

slow rolls (plural)
slow-roll (alternative)
slowroll (alternative)

Saw a very strange slow roll last night in a $20/$40 game. A guy raises with KK and another player calls, all-in, with 99. Flop and turn are rainbow rags. Then, for reasons known only to him and God, the dealer decides to get cute with the river card. He peeks at the corner, pauses dramatically, looks at both players, then turns up a 9 on the river. I've seen a lot of players slow roll but it's unusual to see a dealer do it. A lively discussion followed.

2007, Irish Mike, “A strange slow roll”, in rec.gambling.poker (Usenet):

(poker slang) An instance of slow rolling


mournival

mournivals (plural)
murnival (alternative)

Perhaps from French mornifle (“a card game”).

Before George, there's not enough to rig out a Mournival of VVhores: they'l think me grown a meer Curmudgeon. Mercy on me, how will this glorious Trade be carri'd on, with ſuch a miſerable Stock!

1677 (date written), John Dryden, The Kind Keeper; or, Mr. Limberham: A Comedy: […], London: […] R[ichard] Bentley, and M[ary] Magnes, […], published 1680, →OCLC, Act IV, scene i, page 37:

(card games, obsolete) In the game of gleek, and other card games, a set of four cards of the same face value.


one-eyed jack

The game is seven card stud. After the queen, one-eyed jacks and low card in the hole are wild.

1989 June 26, “The Emissary” (2:05), in Star Trek: The Next Generation, season 2, episode 20, spoken by Data (Brent Spiner):

(card games, slang) Either the jack of spades or jack of hearts, on which the jack is commonly depicted in profile.


man with the ax

So called because, while the other three king cards are commonly depicted with swords, the king of diamonds is depicted with an ax.

The game is seven card high/low with a buy on the last card. And just to make it more interesting, the man with the ax takes all.

1989 February 13, “The Measure of a Man” (2:41), in Star Trek: The Next Generation, season 2, episode 9, spoken by Dr. Katherine Pulaski (Diana Muldaur):

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

kirvesmies

nickname for the king of diamonds — see also king of diamonds


high/low

(poker) Alternative spelling of high-low.


Hollywooding

From Hollywood + -ing, referring to the products of its film industry.

(poker, slang) Intentional stalling to give the impression that one is making a difficult decision.


bluffy

en-adj

bluffy (comparative more bluffy, superlative most bluffy)

more bluffy (comparative)
most bluffy (superlative)

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The check-raise looks very bluffy (although you know better than to check-raise bluff on these types of boards against stubborn opponents).

2010, Tri Nguyen, Aaron Davis, The Poker Blueprint:


deal in

en-verb

deal in (third-person singular simple present deals in, present participle dealing in, simple past and past participle dealt in)

deals in (present singular third-person)
dealing in (participle present)
dealt in (participle past)
dealt in (past)

(transitive, card games, with in as adverbial particle) To deal cards to someone entering a game; to enter someone into a game by dealing cards to that person.


deal out

deal out (third-person singular simple present deals out, present participle dealing out, simple past and past participle dealt out)

deals out (present singular third-person)
dealing out (participle present)
dealt out (participle past)
dealt out (past)

Deal me out of this round: I have to make a phone call.

(transitive, card games) not to deal cards to someone who is leaving a game.


high-low

(poker) Describing a game in which the high hand and the low hand win.


high-low

en-noun

high-low (countable and uncountable, plural high-lows)

(uncountable, card games) A card game where a player has to guess if the next card will be higher or lower than the one shown.


donk bet

(poker slang) An opening bet made out of position by a pre-flop caller after the flop.


donk bet

en-verb

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

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


insta-call

insta-calls (plural)
instacall (alternative)

(poker) A call made right after the last player bets or raises.


insta-call

insta-call (third-person singular simple present insta-calls, present participle insta-calling, simple past and past participle insta-called)

insta-calls (present singular third-person)
insta-calling (participle present)
insta-called (participle past)
insta-called (past)
instacall (alternative)

(poker) To call right after the last player bets or raises.


double straddle

en-noun

double straddle (plural double straddles)

(poker) A blind bet pre-flop after a player as straddled which is twice the value of the player's straddle.


double straddle

en-verb

double straddle (third-person singular simple present double straddles, present participle double straddling, simple past and past participle double straddled)

double straddles (present singular third-person)
double straddling (participle present)
double straddled (participle past)
double straddled (past)


swabber

(card games) Four privileged cards, formerly used in betting in whist.


chirping chips

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As I got the pile in front of Oakley, I prayed he would just take the chips and shut up. But nope, in poker there is a thing called chirping chips. Whenever a player wins a big pot, especially by luck, they tend to try to justify it to everyone.

(poker slang) Chips that a player has won that make him or her more talkative at the table.


gimp hand

Gimp, because of the perceived weakness of the hand compare to ace-ten, the hand that ranks directly above it.

(poker) An ace and a nine as a starting hand.


check-fold

check-fold (third-person singular simple present check-folds, present participle check-folding, simple past and past participle check-folded)

check-folds (present singular third-person)
check-folding (participle present)
check-folded (participle past)
check-folded (past)

(poker) To check and then fold to a bet by another player in the same betting round.


check-fold

(poker) An instance of checking then folding to a subsequent bet.


blocker bet

(poker slang) A relatively small bet, chiefly on the river, designed to discourage a player yet to act in the betting round from raising.


WPT

(informal, poker) A World Poker Tour event.


bluff catcher

On such a coordinated board, queens are basically a bluff catcher.

(poker slang) A hand which can beat a bluff but not any hand better than a bluff.


turn-up

I'll bet $10 that the next turn-up is an ace.

(card games) The next card taken from the top of a pack of cards and displayed.


necro

necro (third-person singular simple present necroes or necros, present participle necroing, simple past and past participle necroed)

necroes (present singular third-person)
necros (present singular third-person)
necroing (participle present)
necroed (participle past)
necroed (past)

“I killed and necroed a couple guards practically every time I went out. My boys have the south gate manned, and they'll be stepping aside any minute now.”

2018, Xavier P. Hunter, House Rules: a LitRPG novel, Magical Scrivener Press, →ISBN:

(Internet, video games and card games slang) To practice necromancy; to bring back from the dead.


dog

en-noun

dog (countable and uncountable, plural dogs)

dogs (plural)
darg (alternative dialectal)
dawg (alternative dialectal)
dug (alternative dialectal)
doggie (alternative childish)
doggy (alternative childish)
doggy woggy (alternative childish)
doggo (alternative childish)

Australian Kriol: dog

Bislama: dog

Gullah: dog

Sranan Tongo: dagu

Tok Pisin: dok

Torres Strait Creole: dog

desc

→ American Sign Language: Kop@Inside-PalmForward 1o@Inside

→ Dutch: dog

→ Esperanto: dogo

Ido: dogo

→ French: dogue

→ German: Dogge

→ Italian: dogo

→ English: dogo

→ Portuguese: dogue

→ Russian: дог (dog)

→ Spanish: dogo

→ Volapük: dog, doeg

Inherited from Middle English dogge (akin to Scots dug), from Old English dogga, docga, of uncertain origin.
The original meaning seems to have been a common dog, as opposed to a well-bred one, or something like 'cur', and perhaps later came to be used for stocky dogs. Possibly a pet-form diminutive with suffix -ga (compare frocga (“frog”), *picga (“pig”)), appended to a base *dog-, *doc- of unclear origin and meaning. One possibility is Old English dox (“dark, swarthy”) (compare frocga from frox). Another proposal is that it derives from Proto-West Germanic *dugan (“to be suitable”), the origin of Old English dugan (“to be good, worthy, useful”), English dow, Dutch deugen, German taugen. The theory goes that it could have been an epithet for dogs, commonly used by children, meaning "good/useful animal". Another is that it is related to *docce (“stock, muscle”), from Proto-West Germanic *dokkā (“round mass, ball, muscle, doll”), whence English dock (“stumpy tail”).
In 14th-century England, hound (from Old English hund) was the general word for all domestic canines, and dog referred to a subtype resembling the modern mastiff and bulldog. By the 16th century, dog had become the general word, and hound had begun to refer only to breeds used for hunting. In the 16th century, the word dog was adopted by several continental European languages as their word for mastiff.
Despite similarities in forms and meaning, not related to Mbabaram dog.

hond

morally reprehensible person — see also scoundrel

it is easy to find a stick to beat a dog

on the Internet nobody knows you're a dog

the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog


broadway

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(poker slang) A straight from ace to ten in Texas hold 'em.


codille

The Knave of Diamonds tries his wily Arts,
and wins (oh shameful Chance!) the Queen of Hearts
At this, the Blood the Virgin's Cheek forsook,
A livid Paleness spreads o'er all her Look;
She sees, and trembles at th' approaching Ill,
Just in the Jaws of Ruin, and Codille.

1712-17, Alexander Pope, The Rape of the Lock (London: Chiswick Press. 1925. p. 33-34)

(obsolete, card games) The winning of the majority of tricks in the game of ombre.


durak

(card games) A traditional Russian card game in which players attempt to shed all of their cards.


declared abundance

(card games) An undertaking to take all thirteen tricks with no trump suit.


royal abundance

(card games) An undertaking to take all thirteen tricks with the suit of the face-up card as trump.


dead money

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(poker slang) Chips that a player who has since folded has put into the pot.


prial

(card games) Alternative form of pair royal.


Virginia reel

(card games) A solitaire card game using two mixed decks of playing cards, and in which the foundations are built up by suit in intervals of three.


trickless

a trickless suit


wastepile

(card games) The discard pile; the area where the cards from the stock go when they are brought into play.


worry back

en-verb

worry back (third-person singular simple present worries back, present participle worrying back, simple past and past participle worried back)

worries back (present singular third-person)
worrying back (participle present)
worried back (participle past)
worried back (past)

(card games) In a patience or solitaire game, to return a card from a foundation to the tableau.


downcard

(card games) A card that is dealt face down.


conquian

Perhaps from Spanish con quién, "with whom"; perhaps from the Chinese game Kon Khin, a variation of the earlier game Khanhoo.

(card games) A card game, an ancestor of rummy.


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).


thirteener

thirteeners (plural)
Thirteener (alternative)

From thirteen + -er (suffix denoting people characterized by something, or people or things to which certain measurements or numbers apply).

affix

oner · twoer · fiver · sixer · Sevener · niner · tenner · elevener · twelver · fourteener · fifteener · sixteener · hundreder · thousander · twenty-five-thousander

At last they were all chosen [for the watch] but me; and it was the chief mate's next turn to choose; though there could be little choosing in my case since I was a thirteener, and must, whether or not, go over to the next column, like the odd figure you carry along when you do a sum in addition.

1849, Herman Melville, “He is Put into the Larboard Watch; Gets Sea-sick; and Relates Some Other of His Experiences”, in Redburn: His First Voyage. […], 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC, page 56:

[T]he following description of a thorough-going College Whist-player is too good to lose. […] How he used to bring out forgotten thirteeners at the end of the hand! And how the majesty of your kings and queens was forced to bow down before his dirty little sixes and sevens!

1870 December 23, “Hash”, in The Harvard Advocate, volume X, number VI, Cambridge, Mass.: Students of Harvard College, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 89, column 1:

When you hold the best trump and partner the next best, and right-hand adversary holds the only other trump, you may force partner by leading a thirteener, if necessary, so as to divide your trumps; and he should, when he holds a high trump, always play it on your thirteener, unless it is evident that you cannot hold the best trump.

1895, Fisher Ames, “The Card to Lead”, in A Practical Guide to Whist by the Latest Scientific Methods […], 7th edition, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, page 37:

(card games, especially bridge) The last playing card of a suit left after the other twelve have been played.

maan viimeinen kortti

(card games, especially bridge) last playing card of a suit left after the other twelve have been played


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.


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.


big 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.


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.


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.


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)


flavor text

en-noun

flavor text (countable and uncountable, plural flavor texts)

flavor texts (plural)
flavour text (alternative)

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)

double napoleons (plural)
Double Napoleon (alternative)
double Napoleon (alternative)

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

time banks (plural)
timebank (alternative)

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


auction bridge

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


mugginsed

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


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.


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.


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-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)
angle shoot (alternative)

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

angle-shoots (plural)
angle shoot (alternative)

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 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 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.


suitedness

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


kalooki

kalookie (alternative)
kaluki (alternative)

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


gut shot

gut shots (plural)
gutshot (alternative)

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:


gut-shot straight

en-noun

gut-shot straight (plural gut-shot straights)

gut-shot straights (plural)
gut shot straight (alternative)
gutshot straight (alternative)

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.


build down

en-verb

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♣).


Four Seasons

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


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.


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.


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.


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.


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

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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.


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

pre-flops (plural)
preflop (alternative)

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

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(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

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(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.


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.


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).


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).


pokerclack

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(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)

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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.


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.


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).


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.


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.


VPIP

Abbreviation of voluntarily placed (money) in the pot.

abbrev

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.


early position

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


middle position

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


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).


rule of four

(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

(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.


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.


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.


gtd

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


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)

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


blocking bet

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(poker) A small bet intended to discourage other players from placing 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.


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

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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.


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, literal) To hold one's hand close to one's chest so that other players cannot see the cards.


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.


oicho-kabu

/ˌɔɪ.t͡ʃoʊˈkɑː.buː/

Borrowed from Japanese おいちょかぶ (oicho-kabu). Compound of オイチョ (oicho, “the 8 card”) + カブ (kabu, “the 9 card”), borrowed from Portuguese oito (“eight”) and Portuguese cabo (“end”, for being the highest card) respectively.

der

Couldn't we play with hanafuda instead? I asked. I had a decent amount of experience with oichokabu or koi koi thanks to playing with my mom's family in the countryside.

2013, Nagaru Tanigawa, translated by Paul Tuttle Starr, The Surprise of Haruhi Suzumiya, Yen Press, →ISBN:

(card games) A traditional Japanese gambling game similar to baccarat and the Korean game seotda, played with kabufuda or hanafuda cards, where the goal is to achieve a hand scoring as close to 9 points as possible


two-eyed jack

(card games, slang) Either the jack of diamonds or jack of clubs, on which the jack is commonly depicted from the front, with both eyes visible.


mini-baccarat

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


puppy foot

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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.


beat your neighbour out of doors

en-noun

beat your neighbour out of doors (uncountable)

(card games) Synonym of beggar-my-neighbor.


beat my neighbour out of doors

beat my neighbour out of doors (uncountable)


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)
setmine (alternative)

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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.


luckbox

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(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)

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(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)

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(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.


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.


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.


Earl of Cork

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


case the deck

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.


Grace's card

(Ireland, card games) The six of hearts.


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.


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

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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.


four flush

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


boardcard

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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.


royal straight flush

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.


crazy eight

(card games) Alternative form of crazy eights.


nut straight

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


nut flush

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(poker) The best possible flush available.


nut full house

(poker) The best possible full house 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

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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)

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inside straight draw
inside straight draw#English

(poker) Ellipsis of inside straight draw.


boathouse rum

(card games) Synonym of boathouse rummy.


boathouse rummy

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


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.


six-pack bezique

(card games) Synonym of Chinese bezique.


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.


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.


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)

schafskopfs (plural)
schafkopf (alternative)

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

bor

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


French ruff

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:

(obsolete, card games) Synonym of triomphe.


oudler

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


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.


stone bubble

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(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.


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

bumble-puppy (alternative)
bumblepuppy (alternative)

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.


Russian Bank

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


LGS

(gaming, card games) Initialism of local game store.


long whist

(card games) A game for four players in two partnerships, where a game is won by scoring nine or ten odd tricks.


short whist

(card games) A variation of the game whist that uses a five-point game limit and in which two partnerships of four players compete to win the most tricks.


Slippery Sam

(card games, gambling) A gambling game for at least three players that involves beating the dealer's card with a higher card.


royal casino

(card games) A variant of the game of casino, with different values for the court cards.


I doubt it

(card games) Synonym of bullshit (“a card game where the goal is to have no cards remaining in a hand, often by telling lies”).


small-card

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


snip-snap-snorum

snip-snap-snorem (alternative)
snipsnapsnorum (alternative)

(card games) A game in which players attempt to match the previously played card with a card from their own hands.


Tommy come tickle me

(card games) A card-matching game similar to snip-snap-snorum.


booster pack

(card games) An expansion deck of a trading card game.


oichokabu

Couldn't we play with hanafuda instead? I asked. I had a decent amount of experience with oichokabu or koi koi thanks to playing with my mom's family in the countryside.

(card games) Alternative form of oicho-kabu.