Poker Terms

Basics

Hole cards: The cards that a player is dealt

Pocket pair: Paired hole cards

Flop: The first 3 cards on the board

Turn: The 4th card on the board

River: The 5th card on the board

Preflop: The betting round that takes place before the flop is dealt

postflop: any action after the flop is dealt

Dealer button: That little button that indicates which player is currently the dealer

Position

UTG or Under the gun: The first person to act preflop, seated just after the big blind

EP or early position: depending on how many players there is at the table, it can be only the player UTG and up to UTG and the 2 next players

MP or Middle position: a few players after early position

LP or late position: At a table with 3 or more players, the dealer button is always considered late position, if there are more players, then 1 or 2 players before him are also considered late position

CO or cut-off: The position of the player that act just before the dealer button

Having position over X: acting after X on any betting round postflop

General

Out: An out is a card that would make your hand a winner (ex: if you have 9T, your opponent has AA and flop is 782, any of the four 6 or J are all outs since they give you a straight and would make your hand the winner)

Tilt: Playing bad after a bad beat

Bad Beat: A series of hands where your opponents gets lucky often and beat your strong hands

Draw: A hand that is missing somthing to get a straight or a flush. Must be on the flop or on the turn, you can't have a draw on the river since there are no more cards coming (ex: you have 78 and flop is 6TA, that gives you a straight draw)

Open ended straight draw or double gutshot straight draw or inside straight draw or flush draw: see DRAW_LINK

Slowplay: Having a strong hand but waiting for future betting round to bet in an attempt to get more money into the pot (ex: your opponent raised preflop, you called with 22 and flop comes 2AJ, you decide to only check and hope that your opponent will bet the flop and the turn in order to reraise him on the turn)

SH or Shorthanded: When there is 6 or less players at the table

FR or Full Ring: Players usually refer as full ring a table with 9 or 10 players

HU or heads up: Only 2 players (it's a general term, a head up table would be a table that only allow 2 players to sit, heads up on the flop would mean that everyone folded before the flop except 2 players)

Fish: A weak player, easy to beat

Shark: A strong player

Boat: A full house

The nuts: The best possible hand on the current board (ex: if the board is 566AK, someone having 66 in his hands (4 of a kind) would have the nuts)

Set: When you have a pocket pair and get 3 of a kind (ex: you have 33 and flop comes 39K)

Tripps: When you don't have a pocket pair but get 3 of kind (ex: you have 56 and flop comes 66K), it must be a pair on the board that matches one of your hole card (56 flop KKK isin't tripps)

str8: straight

SNG or sit n go: A small tournament, usually with 10 players, but it can be more or less. Sit n go are not scheduled tournament, there are available all day and starts as soon as there are enough players