Slang

Poker is a very social game, and as such encourages discussion during and after a game. Over the hundred or more years that it has been played, slang has developed to describe situations and things in the poker world. Sometimes, the slang is shorthand for a complex situation that would normally take many words to describe; at other times, it's merely for the fun of having special words.

Some poker slang includes:


 * Boat: full house
 * Burn: to discard a card
 * Calling station: a player who tends to call most bets, often with fairly weak hands
 * Chop: a variety of meanings; but usually, to split a pot
 * Color Up: to exchange many lower denomination chips for one or a few chips of higher denomination
 * Full Boat: full house
 * Muck: the pile of discarded cards, usually kept by the dealer's hand
 * Nut Flush: the best possible flush (usually, ace-high flush)
 * Nut Straight: the best possible straight (see also Nuts)
 * Nuts: the best poker hand possible
 * One eyed jacks: the jack of hearts and the jack of spades
 * Runner-runner: needing two specific cards in the next two rounds in order to make your intended hand
 * Quads: four-of-a-kind
 * Rock: a tight player that plays only the best possible hands
 * Set: three-of-a-kind, especially with two of the three being downcards
 * Suicide King: the king of hearts
 * Trips: three-of-a-kind