Poker Glossary
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Baby - A small card, usually a five or less.
Back Door - A hand made back door is one made using both of the last two cards, as in Texas Hold’Em.
Back-in - To win by default or unexpectedly.
Back-to-back - A pair on the first two cards dealt in stud (Backed Up).
Backer - A nonplayer who finances an active player.
Backraise - A reraise. To make a minimum raise to avoid a larger raise.
Bad Beat - You must lose to qualify for the Bad-Beat bonus. It typically occurs when you lose in a situation where you're the big favorite. It could also be when an on/off line casino offers bonuses for particular types of Bad-Beats.
Bait - A small bet that encourages a raise.
Bank - Where the money from purchased chips is kept.
Bank Night - High-low five-card stud with two twists.
Banker - The person responsible for selling and cashing chips.
Bankroll - The total amount of money one is willing to risk. It can also mean that you provide the money for someone else to gamble.
Barn - A full house.
Barracuda - A tough player.
Baseball - A stud game involving nines and threes as wild cards.
Beans - Chips.
Bear - A tight player.
Beat the Board (Table) - To have a hand better than all others showing.
Beat Your Neighbor - A five-card game that requires each player in turn to expose his cards until his hand beats the board.
Bedsprings - Similar to Cincinnati except ten cards are dealt face-up for use in everyone's hand.
Behind - When you don’t have the best hand before the last cards have been dealt.
Belly Hit - When a draw fills an inside straight (Gut Shot).
Belly Strippers - Cards with slightly trimmed edges that taper from a wider center to the ends (Humps).
Belly-Buster Straight - An inside straight.
Best Flush - A game in which only flushes win the pot.
Bet Into - To bet before another player who apparently has a better hand.
Bet or Get - A rule that one must either bet or fold with no checking allowed (Bet or Drop, Passout).
Bet the Limit - To bet the maximum amount allowed.
Bet the Pot - To bet an amount equal to the pot.
Bet the Raise - The maximum bet being twice that of the previous bet or raise.
Betting Interval - The period from the first bet to the last call in any given round.
Betting Pace - The degree, extent, and aggressiveness of bets and raises.
Betting Ratios - The differences in maximum bets allowed with each round of betting.
Betting Stakes - The dollar limits of all bets and raises permitted.
Betty Hutton - Seven-card stud with nines and fives wild.
Bicycle - A straight to the five . . . ace, two, three, four, five (Wheel).
Bid - To declare for high or low in split-pot poker.
Big Bill - A hundred dollars or a thousand dollars.
Big Blind - The final and largest blind bet.
Big Bobtail - A four-card straight flush.
Big Cat - Five unpaired cards from the king to the eight.
Big Dog - (1) Five unpaired cards from ace to nine. (2) A big underdog.
Big Full - The highest possible full house.
Big One - A thousand dollars.
Big Slick - In Hold’Em it’s an ace and a king as your hole cards.
Big Squeeze - Six-card high-low stud with one twist.
Big Tiger - See Big Cat.
Bill - A dollar or a hundred dollars.
Bird Dog - One who gets players for a game.
Black - The color of $100 chips.
Blank - A card that doesn't look like it's going to help anyone.
Blaze - A five-card hand containing five picture cards.
Blaze Full - A full house in picture cards.
Bleed - To slowly bleed money from a game or a player.
Bleeder - A tight, winning player.
Blind - A mandatory or forced bet before the deal by the first player to the dealer's left.
Blind Bet - To bet before looking at one's hand,
Blind Low - Five-card stud bet blind all the way to the last bet.
Blind Open - An opening bet made without looking at one's cards.
Blind Shuffle - A cheater's shuffle used to stack cards or to leave stacked cards undisturbed after shuffling (False Shuffle).
Blind Tiger - Draw poker with a blind open and a blind raise (Open Blind and Straddle).
Block System - An ante, open, and first raise automatically done in the blind by the dealer.
Blood Poker - A higher-stake poker game played primarily for money rather than for social reasons.
Blow Back - A raise after previously calling or checking.
Bluff - The attempt to win a pot by making better hands fold.
Blur Intensity - The lightness or darkness of printing visible on partially flashed cards, indicating a high or a low card.
Board - (1) The poker table. (2) All face-up cards in stud or hold 'em.
Bobtail Flush or Straight - A four-card flush or a four-card, open-end straight.
Bolt - To fold.
Bone - A white chip, the lowest denomination chip.
Bonus - A fixed sum established by house rules that is paid by each player to the holder of a very high-value hand such as a straight flush (Premium, Royalty, Penalties).
Book - A three-card draw.
Boost - To raise.
Border Work - Markings added by cheaters to the printed borderlines of cards to identify their value.
Bottom Deal - To deal cards off the bottom of the deck when cheating.
Bottom Pair - When you pair the lowest card if there are three cards of different ranks on the flop in any flop game.
Bouillotte - A French card game that influenced the open-card stud variation in poker.
Bounty - Some tournaments offer small amounts of cash to anyone who knocks out another player in the tournament.
Boxed Card - A card turned the wrong way in a deck.
Boy - A jack.
Brag - The betting expression in the English game of Bragg.
Bragg - An English three-card game that influenced the use of the full fifty-two-card deck in poker.
Braggers - Jacks and nines as wild cards. Or the ace of diamonds, the jack of clubs, and the nine of diamonds as wild cards.
Brandeln - A card game similar to Commerce.
Breakers - Openers.
Breathe - To pass the first opportunities to bet.
Brelen - (1) A French card game that influenced the use of straights and flushes in poker. (2) Three of a kind.
Brelen Carre - Four of a kind.
Brief - A single stripper card in a deck used to facilitate illegal cuts.
Bring In - To bring in the betting is to make the first bet on the first round of a hand (not including blind bets and antes). A player who does this is said to \bring it in.\" In seven-card stud, often the lowest card on the board is forced to bring it in. The bet so placed is called the bring-in."
Broadway - A straight with the ace as the high card.
Brush - A card room employee responsible for managing the seating list.
Buck - (1) A marker used to designate the dealer. (2) A marker or a knife used to designate the player permitted to deal a special hand, usually a hand with a dealer advantage such as draw. (3) A dollar.
Buddy Poker - To avoid betting against a friend or a partner.
Buffalo - To fool opponents.
Bug - (1) The joker used in high-hand poker as an ace or as a wild card for filling straights and flushes. A wild card in lowball. Can be used in high-low as both a high card and a low card in the same hand (Joker). (2) A device fastened beneath the poker table by a cheater to hold out a card or cards.
Bull - A player who raises frequently.
Bull Montana - Five-card stud with betting, then jacks required to open the final bet.
Bull or Bullet - An ace.
Bull the Game - To bluff or bet aggressively.
Bump - A raise.
Buried Card - A card randomly inserted in the deck.
Burn - (1) A full house. (2) To lose a hand. (3) Deal a burn card.
Burned, Burnt, or Burn Card - (1) An exposed card put face-up on the bottom of the deck (2) A card dealt face down into the discards.
Busted Hand - (1) A worthless hand (Bust). (2) A hand that failed to fill a straight or a flush on the draw.
Busy Card - Any card that completes a hand.
Butcher Boy - An open-hand form of poker where four of a kind is needed to win.
Button - (1) A marker used to signify a theoretical dealer when there is a house dealer. (2) A second or third pair.
Buy - (1) To call bets in order to draw cards. (2) To bluff someone out.
Buy In - The stack of chips that a player buys at the start of a game.
By Me - An expression meaning to pass or check.
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