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Action
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Player's turn to bet, raise, or fold
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All-in
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Committing all your chips in a poker hand
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Backdoor
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A draw requiring two connectors or same suited cards to complete
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Bad Beat
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An unlucky loss against the odds
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Bankroll
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Amount of money a player sets aside for poker
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Big blind
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Mandatory bet before cards are dealt (by player after two seats after button)
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Boat
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Full house
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Blind
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Mandatory bet placed before cards are dealt
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Bluff
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Bet or raise without the best hand in order to induce an opponent's fold
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Board
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Shared or community cards
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Bubble
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Player eliminated before the money in a tournament
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Burn
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The card the dealer discards before dealing community cards
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Button
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Seat where the dealer is sitting
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Call
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Bet the amount of another player's bet
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Check
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Choosing not to bet but stay in the hand
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Chip
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A token used in poker to represent cash, with different colored chips representing different cash values.
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Continuation bet
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A bet made post-flop by player who bet first pre-flop
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Drawing dead
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When a player cannot win the hand, regardless of community cards to come
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Fish
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An inexperienced or bad player
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Fifth street
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The final community card, or river, dealt out
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Flop
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The first three community cards dealt
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Flush
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A hand consisting of five cards all the same suit
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Fold
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Throwing away your hand
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Fourth Street
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The turn card
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Full house
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A hand consisting of three-of-a-kind plus a pair
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Freeroll
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A free tournament with no buy-in and a pre-determined prizepool to be won
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Freezeout
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A game without a re-buy option
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Gutshot
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Uncompleted straight requiring one card
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Heads-up
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A poker game between two players only
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Kicker
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A highest unpaired card in a hand used to break ties
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Limp
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To call the big blind pre-flop
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Loose
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A reckless or aggressive player
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Monster
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A very strong hand
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MTT
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A multi-table tournament
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Muck
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To fold a hand without revealing hole cards
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Nuts
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The best possible hand
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Offsuit
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Hole cards of different suits
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Outs
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The cards remaining in the pack that can complete a winning hand
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Overpair
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Holding a pocket pair higher than any possible using community cards
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Play the board
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Using all community cards to create hand
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Pocket pair
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A pair in your starting hand
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Position
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A player's turn in betting order
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Quads
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Four of a kind
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Rags
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Terrible opening hand, like 7-2 offsuit
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Rainbow
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A flop consisting of cards of different suits
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Raise
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To bet more than the previous bet
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Rake
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A percentage of pot taken by cardroom
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River
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The fifth and final community card
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Satellite
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A tournament awarding entry into a larger tournament
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Set
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Three of a kind including a pair in the hole
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Showdown
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Two or more players revealing cards to decide a winning hand
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Side pot
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Extra pots contested after a multiple all-in
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Sit and Go
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A tournament that starts once all seats are filled (normally a single-table tournament)
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Small blind
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Mandatory small bet before cards are dealt (made by player seated after button)
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Straight
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A hand consisting of connecting cards
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Split pot
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An equally divided pot for tied hands
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Tilt
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A loss control of your emotions in a poker game, meaning you become aggressive and angry (due to a bad beat).
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Top pair
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A pair including a hole card and the highest community card
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Trips
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Three of a kind including only one hole card
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Turn
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The fourth community card
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Under the gun
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The first player to act before the flop