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
