Poker glossary

Add-on: In a tournament, a chance for everyone still in to take more chips, usually at the first break.
All in: Putting every chip you have into the pot.
Ante: A small amount every player puts in before the deal. A big blind ante is put in by the big blind for the whole table.
Big blind: The bigger of the two forced bets, put in by the second player left of the button. It sets the stakes. More.
Board: The face-up cards in the middle that everyone shares: the flop, the turn and the river.
Bomb pot: A hand where everyone antes and the flop comes straight out, sometimes on two or three boards. More.
Bounty: A prize in chips for knocking a player out of a tournament, or for winning with 7-2 in the 7-2 game.
Bubble: The last place before the prizes in a tournament. The player who goes out there is the bubble.
Button: The dealer button. The player on it acts last after the flop, and the blinds are the two players to its left.
Buy-in: The chips you sit down with in a cash game, between the table's smallest and biggest.
Call: Matching the biggest bet so far.
Cash game: A game where you play with the chips in front of you and can come and go, as opposed to a tournament. More.
Check: Passing without betting, when nobody has bet yet in the round.
Co-host: A player the host names to share the host's controls.
Colour up: Swapping a tournament's small chips for bigger ones once the blinds outgrow them.
Draw: A hand that needs more cards to become good, such as four cards to a flush.
Final table: The last table of a tournament with more than one table.
Flop: The first three board cards, dealt together.
Fold: Giving up your hand and the chips you've already put in.
Freezeout: A tournament with no rebuys: when your chips are gone, you're out.
Hand for hand: On the bubble, every table plays one hand at a time so nobody can stall into the prizes.
Heads-up: Two players left in a hand, or at a table.
Hole cards: Your own face-down cards. Two in Hold'em, four in Omaha.
Kicker: A card that isn't part of your hand's pair or set but breaks a tie. More.
Late entry: Joining a tournament after it has started, until a set level.
Ledger: The record of every buy-in and result in chips, with the fewest transfers to settle up. More.
Limp: Calling the big blind before the flop instead of raising.
Muck: The pile of folded cards. To muck is to fold or throw away your hand without showing it.
Nit: A player who only plays the very best hands. Also a side game. More.
No limit: Betting where you can bet anything up to all your chips. More.
Nuts: The best possible hand on the board as it stands.
Outs: The cards still in the deck that would make your hand.
Pot: All the chips bet in a hand, won by the best hand or the last player left.
Pot fold: A side game where everyone antes, gets four to six cards, and pays the pot to see the turn and river. More.
Pot limit: Betting where the biggest bet is the size of the pot after you call. More.
Position: Where you sit relative to the button. Acting later is a better position.
Pre-flop: The first round of betting, before the flop.
Rabbit hunt: Seeing the board cards that would have come after a hand ends early. More.
Raise: Betting more than the biggest bet so far.
Rebuy: In a tournament, buying the starting chips again after running out, or running low.
River: The fifth and last board card.
Run it twice: Dealing the rest of the board more than once when everyone left is all in. More.
Set: Three of a kind made with a pair in your hand and one card on the board.
Showdown: When the players left show their cards to see who wins.
Side pot: A separate pot for the chips a player who is all in can't match. More.
Small blind: The smaller of the two forced bets, put in by the player left of the button.
Stack: The chips in front of a player.
Straddle: A blind raise of twice the big blind by the player under the gun, before the cards. More.
Suited: Two cards of the same suit, such as A♥ K♥.
Tilt: Playing badly because you're frustrated after losing a hand.
Time bank: Extra seconds on top of your time to act, for the big decisions.
Trips: Three of a kind made with a pair on the board and one card in your hand.
Turn: The fourth board card.
Under the gun: The first player to act before the flop, left of the big blind.
Wheel: The lowest straight: A-2-3-4-5.
Wrap: In Omaha, a straight draw with many outs, made from several of your four cards.

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