Poker Glossary
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Walk - To be away from the table long enough to miss one or more hands.
Walk the Table - The automatic winning of the entire pot with a certain specific card or hand.
Wash - To Shuffle.
Waving - Coiling or crimping cards by a cheater so the wavy card can be spotted in an opponent's hand or in the deck.
Weak - Play characterized by a readiness to fold and a reluctance to raise.
Weary Willie - See Elimination.
Wedges - Certain tapered or shaved cards that can be pulled from a deck when needed by the cheater.
Welcher - A player who fails to pay a debt.
Whangedoodle - A round of jackpots played after a big hand such as four of a kind.
Wheel - See Bicycle.
Whipsaw - To bet and raise aggressively on both sides of a calling player. (Squeezed Player).
Whiskey Poker - Draw poker with widow cards that can be exchanged from one's hand.
White - The most common color for $1 chips.
Whore - A queen.
Widow - (1) A card or cards common to all hands (Spit Card). (2) The money cut from pots (Kitty).
Wild Annie - See Double-Barreled Shotgun.
Wild Card - A card changeable to any value or suit desired by its holder.
Wild Game - (1) A game using wild cards. (2) A highly spirited or fast-paced game.
Wild Widow - A card turned up for use as a wild card (with all similar cards being wild) in every player's hand (Spit Card).
Window - The card exposed or flashed at the end of a player's closed hand.
Window Dressing - A card purposely flashed from one's closed hand.
Wing - To have a winning streak.
Wired (Back-to-Back) - A pair, trips, or four of a kind dealt consecutively or back-to-back in a hand ... usually in a stud hand starting with the first card.
Woolworth - A game in which all fives and tens are wild.
World Series of Poker - A Hold 'em tournament with a $10,000 buy-in held every May at Binion's Horseshoe Casino in Las Vegas.
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