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Sandbag: To check a strong hand with the intention of raising or re-raising. Satellite: A small-stakes tournament whose winner obtains cheap entry into a bigger tournament.
Scare Card: An up card that looks as though it might have made a strong hand.
School: The players in a regular game.
Scoop: To win the entire pot.
Scooting: Passing chips to another player after winning a pot; horsing.
Seat Charge: In public cardrooms, an hourly fee for playing poker.
Seating List: In most cardrooms, if there is no seat available for you when you arrive, you can put your name on a list to be seated when a seat opens up.
Second Pair: In flop games, pairing the second highest card on board.
See: To call.
Semi-Bluff: To bet with a hand which isn't the best hand, but which has a reasonable chance of improving.
Set: Three of a kind; trips (usually applies to a pair in hand and a matching card on board).
Set You In: To bet as much as your opponent has left in front of him.
Seventh Street: The final betting round on the last card in Seven-Card Stud.
Shill: A cardroom employee, often an off-duty dealer, who plays with house money to make up a game.
Shootout: A tournament format in which a single player ends up with the entire prize money, or in which play continues at each table until only one player remains.
Short Odds: The odds for an event that has a good chance of occurring.
Short-Stacked: Having only a small number of chips left.
Show One, Show All: A rule that says if a player shows their cards to anyone at the table they can be asked to show everyone else.
Showdown: The point at the end of the final round of betting when all the remaining player's cards are turned up to see which player has won the pot.
Side Card: An unmatched card which may determine the winner between two otherwise equal hands.
Side Pot: A separate pot contested by other players when one player is all-in.
Sixth Street: In Seven-Card Stud, the fourth round of betting on the sixth card.
Skin: To fix the cards; cheat.
Slow Play: Disguising the value of a strong hand by underbetting, to trick an opponent.
Slowroll: To reveal one's hand slowly at showdown, one card at a time, to heighten the drama.
Small Blind: The smaller of the two compulsory bets in flop games, made by the player in the first postion to the dealer's left.
Smooth: The best possible low hand with a particular high card.
Smooth Call: To call rather than raise an opponent's bet.
Snap Off: To beat another player, often a bluffer, and usually without a powerful hand.
Speed: The level of aggressiveness with which you play. Fast play is more aggressive, slow play is more passive.
Splash Around: To play more loosely than you should.
Splash The Pot: To throw your chips into the pot, instead of placing them in front of you. This makes it difficult for the dealer to determine the amount you bet.
Split: A tie.
Spread: When a cardroom starts a table for a particular game, it is said to spread that game. If you want to know what games are played in a particular place, you can ask what they spread.
Spread Limit: Betting limits in which there is a fixed minimum and maximum bet for each betting round.
Squeeze: To look slowly at the extremities of your hole cards, without removing them from the table, to worry your opponents and heighten the drama.
Stack: The pile of chips in front of a player.
Stand Pat: To decline an opportunity to draw cards.
Stand-Off: A tie, in which the players divide the pot equally.
Stay: To remain in a hand with a call rather than a raise.
Steal: A bluff in late position, attempting to steal the pot from a table of apparently weak hands.
Steaming: Playing poorly and wildly, often because the player is emotionally upset.
Steel Wheel: In lowball, a straight flush, five high (Ace-2-3-4-5).
Straddle: To make a blind raise before the deal; big blind.
Straight: Five consecutive cards of mixed suits.
Straight Flush: Five consecutive cards of the same suit.
Streak: A run of good or bad cards.
String Bet: An illegal bet in which a player puts some chips in the pot, then reaches back to his stack for more, without having first verbally stated the full amount of his bet.
Structure: The limits set upon the ante, forced bets and subsequent bets and raises in any given game.
Stuck: Slang for losing, often a substantial amount of money.
Stud: Any form of poker in which the first card or cards are dealt down, or in the hole, followed by several open, or face up, cards.
Suck Out: To win a hand by hitting a very weak draw, often with poor pot odds.
Suited: Cards of the same suit.
Sweat: To watch a player from the rail.
Sweeten: The Pot Slang for raise.
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Table: Refers to the poker table itself, or the collective players in the game. Table Cop: A player who calls with the intention of keeping other players honest.
Table Stakes: A poker game in which a player cannot bet more than the money he has on the table.
Table Talk: Any discussion at the table of the hand currently underway, especially by players not involved in the pot, and especially any talk that might affect play.
Take Off A Card: To call a single bet in order to see one more card.
Take Off The Gloves: To use an aggressive betting strategy to bully opponents.
Take The Odds: To wager less money on a proposition than you hope to win.
Tap City: To go broke.
Tap Out: To bet all one's chips.
Tapped Out: Broke, busted.
Tell: A player's nervous habit or mannerism which might reveal his hand.
Texas Hold 'Em: A form of poker in which players use five community cards in combination with their two hole cards to form the best five-card hand. Also called hold 'em.
Third Pair: In flop games, pairing the third highest card on board.
Third Street: In Seven-Card Stud, the first round of betting on the first three cards.
Three Flush: Three cards of the same suit, requiring two more to make a flush.
Three Of A Kind: Three cards of the same denomination, with two side cards; trips.
Throwing A Party: When several loose or amateur players are making significant monetary contributions to the pot.
Tight: A conservative player who only plays strong hands, or playing on fewer hands than the norm.
Tight Game: A game with a small number of players in most pots.
Tilt: See on tilt.
To Go: An amount "to go" is the amount it takes to enter the pot.
Toke: A tip to the dealer.
Top Pair: In flop games, pairing the highest card on board.
Trey: A three.
Triplets: Three of a kind.
Trips: Slang for triplets; three of a kind.
Turn: In flop games, the fourth street card.
Two Flush: Two cards of the same suit, requiring three more to make a flush.
Two Pair: A hand with two pairs and a kicker.
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