Poker Glossary
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A Priori Odds - The probability that an event will occur.
A-C Player - The Advanced Concept Player.
A-game - The highest stake game in the house.
Ace To Five - In a low game .The ace to five means straights and flushes don't count and the ace can be used as a low card.
Aces Up - A pair of aces with one other pair.
Act - To check, call, fold, open bet, and raise when it's your turn.
Action - The betting.
Action Spot - The table area where the betting is occurring.
Active Player - A player competing for a pot.
Add-on - When a tournaments allows players to purchase additional chips.
Add-them-up Lowball - Draw poker where the hand with the lowest point total wins.
Advanced Concepts of Poker - The concepts used by the good poker player to win maximum money from opponents.
Advanced-Concept Player - A player whose style is based on the Advanced Concepts of Poker. (A-C Player).
Advertise - To have a bluff called in order to encourage opponents to call later.
Age - First position to the left of the dealer (A, Able, or Edge).
Agent - A confederate or collusion partner in cheating.
Aggressive - A playing style characterized by frequent raising and re-raising.
Alien Card - A card not belonging to the deck in play.
Alive Card - See Live Card.
All Blue, or All Pink - A flush.
All the Way - Cincinnati with a progressive bet.
All-In - The betting by a player of all his money on the table.
Alternate Straight - A sequence of every other card, such as two, four, six, eight, ten (Dutch Straight, Skipper, Skip Straight).
Ambique - A French card game that influenced the draw variation of poker.
American Brag - A game where the raiser shows the first caller his hand and the worst hand folds.
Anaconda - A seven-card game with bets made on five rolled-up cards.
Announce - To declare high, low, or the moon in high-low poker.
Announced Bet - A verbal bet made by a player before putting his money in the pot.
Ante - Money put in the pot before dealing.
Arkansas Flush - A four flush.
Around the Comer Straight - A sequence running from the highest to the lowest values, such as queen, king, ace, two, three.
Assigned Bettor - The player who bets first.
Australian Poker - Draw poker with a blind opening.
Automatic Bluff - A lowball situation that almost always requires a bluff.
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