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Partypoker has created a glossary for all the words that you will hear around the poker table and read in poker forums. Find out some names for your hole cards, find out the origin of some of the terms, and find out who uses these terms most often.


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Paints - Face or picture cards (Jack, Queen and King).

Pair - Two cards of the same face or number value.

Pass - To fold.

Pay Off - To call on the final round of betting when you may or may not think you have the best hand.

Picture Cards - Face cards (Jack, Queen and King).

Play Back - To raise or re-raise another player's bet.

Playing the Board - In flop games when your best five card hand is all five of the community cards.

Pocket - The down cards or hole cards.

PocketCards - The two cards dealt to you at the beginning of a Hold 'Em hand that no one else is entitled to see.

Pocket Rockets - A pair of Aces in the pocket or hole.

Position - Where a player is seated in relation to the dealer, therefore establishing that player's place in the betting order.

Post - When you post a bet, you place your chips in the pot. (You must post the Blinds.)

Pot - The money or chips in the center of a table that players try to win.

Pot Limit - This is a game where the maximum bet can equal the pot.

Prop - A person hired by the cardroom to work as a shill.

Push - When the dealer pushes the chips to the winning player at the end of a hand. It's also when dealers rotate to other tables.

Put Down - To fold a hand.

Quads - Four of a kind.

Qualifier - In High-Low games, it is a requirement the Low hand must meet to win the pot.


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