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Playover Box: A clear plastic box
used to cover and protect the chips of an absent player when someone plays
over that seat.
Pocket:
Your unique cards that only you can see. For instance, "He
had pocket sixes" (a pair of sixes), or "I had ace-king in the pocket."
Position:
The relation of a player’s seat to the blinds or the button, or the order
of acting on a betting round or deal.
Post: To put in a blind
bet, generally required when you first sit down in a card room game. You
may also be required to post a blind if you change seats at the table in a
way that moves you away from the blinds.
Pot-Limit:
The betting structure of a game in which you are allowed to bet up to the
amount of the pot.
Pot Odds: The amount of
money in the pot compared to the amount you must put in the pot to
continue playing. For example, suppose there is $60 in the pot. Somebody
bets $6, so the pot now contains $66. It costs you $6 to call, so your pot
odds are 11:1. If your chance of having the best hand is at least one out
of twelve, you should call. Pot odds also apply to draws. For instance,
suppose you have a draw to the nut flush with one card left to come. In
this case, you are about a 4:1 underdog to make your flush. If it costs
you $8 to call the bet, then there must be about $32 in the pot (including
the most recent bet) to make your call correct.
Potting Out:
Agreeing with another player to take money out of a pot, often to buy
food, cigarettes, or drinks, or to make side bets.
Price: The pot odds you are
getting for a draw or call. Example: "The pot was laying me a high enough
price, so I stayed in with my gutshot straight draw."
Proposition Bets:
Side bets between players that are not related to the outcome of the hand.
Protected Hand:
A hand of cards that the player is physically holding, or has topped with
a chip or some other object to prevent a fouled hand.
Push:
When a new dealer replaces an existing dealer at a particular table.
Pushing Bets:
The situation in which two or more players make an agreement to return
bets to each other when one of them wins a pot in which the other or
others play. Also called saving bets.
Quads: Four of a kind.
Rack: A
container in which chips are stored while being transported, or the tray
in front of the dealer, used to hold chips and cards.
Ragged: A flop (or board)
that doesn't appear to help anybody very much. A flop that came down
Jd-6h-2c would look ragged.
Rags:
Cards generally not worth playing. RAISE: To increase the amount of a
previous wager. This increase must meet certain specifications, depending
on the game, to reopen the betting and count toward a limit on the number
of raises allowed.
Rainbow: A flop that
contains three different suits, thus no flush can be made on the turn. Can
also mean a complete five card board that has no more than two of any
suit, thus no flush is possible.
Ring Game: A regular
poker
game as opposed to a tournament. Also referred to as a "live" game since
actual money is in play instead of tournament chips.
River:
The final card dealt.
Rock: A player who plays
very tight, not very creatively. He raises only with the best hands. A
real rock is fairly predictable - if he raises you on the end, you can
throw away just about anything but the nuts.
Runner: Typically said
"runner-runner" to describe a hand which was made only by catching the
correct cards on both the turn and the river - "He made a runner-runner
flush to beat my trips." Also called Backdoor.
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