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(n) 1. A weak player. 2. Short for after the rabbit or follow the rabbit. A form of draw, usually lowball, in which a player gets a bonus from the other players for winning two pots in a row. For example, in a $4-to-go no-limit lowball game, each player puts up $20, which goes into a kitty. Whoever wins the two pots in a row gets the kitty. This tends to stimulate action, because when a player wins a pot, she is likely to loosen her requirements for the next pot to try to get the kitty. She may kill the next pot to try to increase her chances of winning the next pot and to keep out the two-card draws.

(v) After the deal is over, search through the undealt cards to see what you would have made if you had stayed in the pot. Not permitted in most establishments, and frowned on in the rest.

(n) Searching through the undealt cards, as described under rabbithunt.

1 (n) The situation that occurs in a tournament at the point at which the limits are increased and the denomination of chips used at the lower limits is no longer needed for the current limits. First all chips are exchanged for the higher-denomination chips (colored up; see color up); then the odd chips are taken off in a procedure known as the race for the odd chips, or simply the race. After the conversion, the dealer or other person making the chip exchange shuffles the deck and deals each player that has odd chips, in order, one card face up for each odd chip. Whoever gets the highest card, with ties settled by suits in bridge order, gets all the odd chips. At whatever point the ace of spades appears, no further cards need be dealt, and whoever gets that card "wins" the odd chips; otherwise the cards are dealt until each player has one card for each chip. Those chips are then also colored up and the higher-denomination chips given to the winner. Any remaining odd chips are usually just removed from play. For example, at the $10-$20 limit, $5 chips are used. When the limit changes to $25-$50, $25 chips will be used. A house employee comes around to color up all even multiples of $25. At this point, every player has zero, one, two, three, or four $5 chips. Each player puts those chips up in front of him and is dealt one card for each chip. The player who gets the highest card wins all the $5 chips, which are then colored up to quarters. Say Emilie has four odd $5 chips, Chloe has two, Lee has one, Martin has three, Peter has none, Eva has two, Joe has none, Mike has none, and Adrian has four. The dealer shuffles the deck, and starts dealing cards face up, first four to Emilie, two to Chloe, one to Lee, three to Martin, none to Peter, two to Eva, none to Joe and Mike, and four to Adrian. The ace of spades never appears, so the cards are dealt till Adrian has four. When the cards are all out, no aces appeared. Emilie got the king of diamonds and Chloe the king of clubs; Emilie gets all 12 chips, which are exchanged for two $25 chips; the other two odd $5 chips are taken out of play. It is possible to be knocked out of a tournament at the race if you have less than five chips total. 2. (v) Participate in a race.

(adv phrase) Dumped out of a tournament due to having lost one's remaining small denomination chips during a race.

(adv phrase) raced off.

(n, v phrase) race.

(n) blind stud.

(v phrase) race (definition 2).

(v phrase) race (definition 2).

(n) The queen of diamonds. Probably comes from the Bible.

1. (n) chip rack (definition 1). 2. 100 chips. "I'm stuck three racks." 3. (v) Place chips in a rack. 4. Win; usually followed by up. "He's been racking up the game" means he's been winning a lot. Comes from meaning 3.

(v phrase) rack (definition 4); usually followed by the game.

1. (n) Any poor hand. 2. In hold 'em, a card in the flop that probably doesn't help players who started with good cards; usually used in the plural. If you start with A K, and the flop is 2 6 8, you might say, "The dealer flopped three rags." For this definition, also called blank. 3. (adj) Describing a rough lowball hand; always followed by the rank of the high card in the hand; as, for example, a rag 8, which would be an 8-7, probably an 8-7-6.

(adj) 1. In hold 'em, describing a flop (or board) that doesn't appear to help anyone. A flop of J 7 3 would be termed ragged. 2. Same as rag (definition 3). "I've got a ragged 8."

(n) See rag (definition 2).

(n) 1. A barrier separating the games from the onlookers and those waiting to be seated; so called because the barrier often is an actual wooden railing. In casinos, the rail often is a velvet rope. 2. An imaginary or figurative zone for the same purpose, that is, separating the area in which the poker games are as opposed to the area in which the nonplaying onlookers hang around. 3. Part of the phrase on the rail.

(n) Someone who hangs on the rail, often implying someone too broke to get into a game, or someone who just busted out of a game; often someone looking for someone more fortunate to hit up for a loan or stake. Also see kibitzer.

(n phrase) Deck of cards. Also called California bible.

(n phrase; onomatopoetic) 1. The two pair hand jacks and 6s. (Say it rhythmically with this emphasis: jacks and sixes, jacks and sixes, jacks and sixes. Sounds a bit like a train, doesn't it?) 2. In hold 'em, J-6 as one's first two cards.

(adj) Describing a flop in hold 'em of three different suits, usually preceded by the ranks of the cards, as, "the flop came 2-8-K rainbow."

(n phrase) A hand containing cards from each of the four suits. Compare with all red, all blue, etc.

1. (v) Increase the bet. In a limit game, this means add a bet equal to the betting limit; in a no-limit game, this means increase by anything equal to or greater than the previous bet or raise. Also jack, jack it, jack it up, or jack up. 2. (n) The act of increasing the bet. 3. The money, in the form of chips or cash, that constitutes this bet.

1. (v phrase) reraise. 2. (n) The act of raising a raise.

1. (v phrase) Raise without having seen your cards. 2. (n phrase, v phrase) Same as open blind, raise blind. 3. Same as open blind, raise blind, reraise blind.

(n phrase) A pot in which there has been a raise.

(v phrase) See come.

(v phrase) Drive someone out of a pot by betting more than he is willing to call. In a no-limit lowball game you might hear, "I had a bicycle with the joker to draw to, but he raised me out when he put his whole stack in."

(n) Someone who raises. "Check to the raiser."

(v phrase; imitative) "I'm raising."

1. (v) Take a percentage of the pot, usually by the house as its means of making money on the game. Sometimes called snatch. 2. Get someone out of a game; so called because the signal is often a finger run up the person's spine. This is sometimes used by a floor person to unobtrusively request a thief to cash in. 3. (n) The money taken as described in definition 1, or the house's cut taken in some other form (as, for example, time). In a nonrake game, you might hear a loser sarcastically say, "Hurry up and deal; you're slowing down the rake." Sometimes called take or takeoff, juice, vig. 4. The percentage of a pot represented by the rake. A Vegas casino might advertise, "Lowest rake in town." If a new player asks, "What's the rake?", he wants to know what percentage is taken by the house from each pot.

(n phrase) A game in which the house makes its money by raking, as opposed to taking time. Sometimes called snatch game.

(n) rake (definition 3).

(v phrase) rake (definition 1).

(n phrase) rake game.

(n) Cards trimmed or shaved slightly so that they can be detected by feel. Also see belly strippers, end strippers, glazed card, high belly strippers, humps, low belly strippers, strippers, side strippers.

(v phrase) Bet and raise frequently and aggressively.

(n) Fast-action player, one who bets and raises frequently and aggressively.

(v phrase) Betting and raising frequently and aggressively; describing a lively game. "You oughta get in the 3-6; they're rammin' and jammin'."

(n) All one's chips; usually preceded by bet the. When a player goes all in, someone may say, "He's betting the ranch." Also, the farm.

(n) 1. roodles. 2. Less commonly, progressive progressive.

(n) 1. The denomination of a card, as deuce or 10. 2. rank of hands.

(n phrase) Card with numbers, that is, 2 through 10. Also see plain, face card, etc.

(n phrase) The list of cards, from high to low, or low to high, to determine what beats what, as (from high to low) A (ace), K (king), Q (queen), J (jack), T (10), 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, trey (3), deuce (2). In ace-to-five lowball (and many high-low split games), the list goes, from low to high, A, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, J, Q, K.

(n phrase) The hierarchy of the hands of poker, listed from best to worst, or worst to best. Royal flush, lower straight flush, four of a kind, and so on, is one such list.

1. (v) In draw poker, at the time to draw cards, indicate that one is pat. So called because a player, if he has a pat hand, often raps on the table with his knuckles when it is his turn to announce his draw. 2. In any form of poker, at the time for making a bet, indicate that one declines to bet; check. 3. In a game in which gypsy bets are permitted, when it is the blind's turn to act, decline to raise, indicated by rapping on the table with one's cards or knuckles. 4. In a game in which a player must post a blind to get a hand earlier than waiting for the blind to come around (which blind then acts as the player's opening bet), when it is that player's legal turn to act, decline to raise, indicated in similar fashion. 5. When one is offered the deck by the dealer, after shuffling, to cut, rap on the deck to indicate one is declining the option of cutting the cards. For definitions 1 and 2, also knuckle or knock. For 5, sometimes, tap. 6. (n) Standing pat (see stand pat). "He gave it the rap" means he stood pat.

(v phrase) 1. stand pat, that is, at the point when one is supposed to draw, tap the table with one's cards or rap on the table with one's knuckles as an indication that one will not draw any cards. 2. Extended figuratively, draw no cards (but without necessarily actually performing the act of tapping the table with one's cards or rapping with one's knuckles). "How many cards did John take, dealer?" "He rapped pat."

(n phrase) In hold 'em, 3-8 as one's first two cards. Has something to do with certain measurements.

(n; imitative) rush. "He's on a rash."

(v) During a playing session, surreptitiously remove chips from play. This is not strictly cheating, just not fair to the other players who do not have an opportunity to win as much as they might otherwise. It is not permitted in public cardrooms to remove chips from the table without cashing out. Players rathole chips because they don't want to chance losing them back, or because they want to hide their winnings from someone who has staked them or someone they owe money to. Compare with go south, salt away.

(n) One who ratholes (see rathole) chips.

(v phrase) reach for one's chips. For example, the first player passes, and before the second can bet, the first dumps his cards, saying, "All you had to do was rattle your chips."

(n) 1. Seven-card (sometimes, rarely, six-card) lowball stud. 2. Gardena razz.

1. (v) In a stud game, make a conclusion about another player's holdings based on that player's exposed cards, or, in any game, make such a conclusion based on the player's actions, remarks, betting patterns, etc. Compare with put (as in put someone on a hand). 2. (n) Such a conclusion or indication. "I got a read on him and called his all-in bet."

(v phrase) Make a move toward one's chips, presumably with the intention of betting. Usually said by someone about another betting in a situation in which the first has no intention of calling. For example, the first player passes, and before the second can bet, the first dumps his cards, saying, "All you had to do was reach for your chips." Also rattle one's chips.

(n) readers.

(n) 1. marked cards, particularly those marked with special luminous ink that can be seen only by someone wearing special glasses or contact lenses sensitive to a particular portion of the spectrum. Also known as luminous readers. 2. pink eye.

(v phrase) Divine that someone is bluffing. After being caught bluffing, someone might say, "You've been reading my mail."

(v phrase) Prepare for a cheating move.

1. (v) In many tournaments, players are allowed to buy in again if they go broke or if their chip accumulation falls below a certain level, usually only during a predetermined amount of time, say the first hour of play. To do so is to rebuy. Also see add on . 2. (n) The chips represented by performing the preceding action. "The tournament has one rebuy and an add-on." Also see add-on . 3. The act of rebuying, or the point in a tournament at which players can rebuy.

(n phrase) A tournament in which players are permitted to rebuy, as opposed to a freeze-out tournament.

(n) On the Internet, a Usenet newsgroup devoted in large part to discussions of poker. The rec is short for recreational. Often called rgp. Also see ba-poker.

1. (adj, adv) Part of the phrase all red. 2. (n) nickel (definition 1).

1. (v) Deal again, usually as occasioned by a misdeal. 2. (n) The situation in which the cards must be dealt. "Do I owe an ante?" "No, it's a redeal."

(n) nickel (definition 1).

(n phrase) An old card game whose name has been usurped as another name for acey-deucey (definition 3).

(n, v) 1. Be in the situation in which the second-best hand draws out on the better hand (that is, catches a card that makes it the better hand at that point) on the next-to-last card in a stud or hold 'em game, and is itself redrawn out on by the previous better hand on the last card. 2. Make one hand (in a community card or flop game) and have a draw for a better hand. For example, in hold 'em you start with 8 9, and the flop is 2 Τ J. You made a flush, and now you can redraw for a straight flush. Also see extra outs . 3. In a draw game with multiple draws, draw once again.

(n) face card.

(n phrase) A blind that a player in a traveling blind game puts in to get a hand after missing the blinds in a game in which players must come in on the blind. Compare with post.

(n) shiner.

(n) Where a cold deck (supposedly) comes from. "He brought one out from the refrigerator" means he brought in a cooler (cold deck).

(n) Habitual player in a home game, or frequent player in a particular cardroom.

(vt) Fold a hand, usually implying a good hand when you think it is beat. For example, in hold `em, you have three 7s, but after the fourth heart just appeared on the board, Transparent Tommy, who has been calling all the way, now bets out. You might say, "I knew he made the flush. I hated to do it, but I had to release a set."

(n) 1. A form of draw poker, found only in home games, in which all face cards are wild. 2. face card; so called because a face card is sometimes called a paint. This usage is usually restricted to lowball.

(v) Bet the same amount as on the preceding round of betting.

(n) 1. twist. 2. In a draw game, a card substituted for a card in one's hand, that is, the draw card. "Dealer, I need a replacement."

(v) Bet in such a way as to indicate a particular hand. In high draw, to raise before the draw and then draw no cards is to represent a pat hand. To raise and then draw two cards is to represent trips (three of a kind). The player who represents a given hand may or may not actually have that hand; often the connotation of this term is that the player does not.

(n) The conception players have of your play. For example, if you play conservatively, you may have a reputation as a tight player.

1. (v) Raise a raise. 2. In particular, raise the player who first raised you. 3. (n) The act of reraising, also called a backraise.

(n phrase) open blind, raise blind, reraise blind.

(n phrase; humorous) Where a player has to go after suffering a heavy loss.

(n) overblind (definition 2). In a traveling blind game with four blinds, the restraddle is put in by the player three positions to the left of the dealer.

(n) expectation.

(n phrase) Reverse suit order according to the game of bridge, that is, clubs, diamonds, hearts, spades. Reverse bridge order comes into play when breaking a tie for low card in determining who has the low-card forced bet in seven-card stud, or who starts the deal on the first hand at a lowball or razz table.

(n phrase) A tell that means the opposite of what one might expect. A common tell is acting weak when holding a strong hand; a reverse tell might be acting strong when holding a strong hand.

(n) rec.gambling.poker.

(n) rec.gambling.poker.

(n) A subscriber to rec.gambling.poker.

(n phrase) 1. shoe clerk. "Let's raise and get the ribbon clerks out." 2. A small-stakes gambler.

(adj) 1. Pertaining to a packet (portion of a deck) containing an overabundance of high cards, 10s and up. 2. When part of the phrase too rich for my blood, pertaining to a bet, expensive. The player who says this generally means, "I fold."

(n phrase) Shifting Sands.

(n) See free ride.

(v phrase) Get a free ride.

(v phrase) Bicycle cards.

(v phrase) Go light. See lights.

1. (v) shuffle (definition 1). "Riffle them pasteboards." 2. (n) shuffle (definition 3). "Give 'em a riffle." 3. riffle shuffle.

(n phrase) A method of stacking the deck by culling (selecting and pulling out) a few cards from the deck, arranging them in a desired sequence, and then keeping that sequence intact using a cheating riffle shuffle. See run up a hand.

(n phrase) A particular kind of shuffle, performed with the deck separated into two approximately equal packets, whose corners touch, the thumbs against the edges closest to the dealer, and then lifted against the edges, which separates the cards enough for them to interlace. This is how professional dealers shuffle; amateurs may use an overhand shuffle.

(n phrase) A method of stacking the deck using a riffle shuffle.

1. (n) Any cheating method. 2. A cheating device, such as a holdout machine or a gaffed roulette wheel. 3. (v) Prearrange the outcome of an event upon which people bet, such as stack a deck.

(n phrase) An honest gambling establishment, particularly one in which thieves are not tolerated; the opposite of a flat shop.

(n phrase) Exactly the correct pot odds. For example, if the odds against your making a particular hand are 4-to-1, and the pot offers 4-to-1 on the current call you must make, you're getting the right price.

(n phrase) Good situation. "Been losing all day till I got into this game. Looks like I finally found the right spot."

(n phrase) A situation that pertains only in private or home games in which each player has the right to make at least one bet or raise per round no matter how many raises there have been during that round.

(n) A player who purports to be a beginner, but in actuality is an expert. Such a player is sometimes brought into an established private game by one of the regulars for the purpose of taking off some of the money, which the ringer will later split with the regular.

(n phrase) 1. A game with several players (generally seven or more), as opposed to a short game. The term often refers to a completely full game. 2. Any nontournament game.

(v phrase) Part of the phrase ring in a deck.

(v phrase) See ring in a deck.

(v phrase) bring in a deck. Sometimes spelled wring in.

(adj) Pertaining to a deck that was cut, then (dishonestly) replaced in the same order. Also see hop the cut.

1. (n) river card. 2. (vt) Catch a card on the river (in, usually, hold 'em, although sometimes the term is used in seven-card stud) that beats a hand that up till that point was leading, probably by a large margin. "He rivered me."

(n phrase) river gambler.

(n phrase) 1. The seventh card in seven-card stud; seventh street. 2. The fifth community card in hold 'em; fifth street.

(n phrase) Originally a gambler who plied his trade on steamboats up and down the Mississippi and its tributaries, usually playing poker and often cheating, and later extended to mean any card thief.

(n phrase) Gambling that took place on steamboats up and down the Mississippi and its tributaries, in the mid-1800s, usually at poker and faro, and often involving cheating.

(n) In high poker, 2-4-6-8-10 of assorted suits. This is a random "garbage hand" having no value. Compare with Scotch straight.

(n phrase) A thief who cheats for one or more other players, with no benefit to himself, sometimes robbing other thieves and returning their ill-gotten gains to the victims, but sometimes for the purpose of taking attention away from himself.

(n) An extremely tight player, one who takes few chances. Also called hardrock.

(n phrase) The nuts; usually preceded by a.

(v phrase) Describing a game full of rocks (see rock), that is, a tight game with little action. "Don't bother with the 20-40; it's all rocked up" means don't get into that game because it's very tight and no one is giving any money away.

(n) ace; usually used in the plural. Often part of the phrase pocket rockets.

(n phrase) A table full of rocks (see rock).

(adj) tight. "Boy is this a rocky game!" "Watch out for Old Mike; he's the rockiest player in the joint." Compare with rocked up.

(n) Name for a tight player.

(n) A game or tournament format in which three forms of poker are played in rotation, usually either half an hour of each or one round of each. The games are razz, Omaha/8, and seven-card stud high-low. Also see half-and-half game, H.O.E, H.O.R.S.E, H.O.R.S.E.L, H.O.S.E.

1. (n) Winning streak. "Stay out of Slim's way; he's on a roll." 2. The act of exposing one's cards at the showdown, particularly as part of the phrase slow roll. 3. (v) Deal; usually followed by them. "Roll 'em" is a request to the dealer to please distribute the cards. 4. Turn one's face-down cards up, one at a time, generally with a betting round following each exposure, often as part of games such as no peeky and Anaconda. 5. Turn one of one's face-down cards up, as in Mexican stud.

(adv phrase) Having three of a kind as one's first three cards in seven-card stud. If John has a king showing on the first round, and he is rolled up, he has three kings already.

(adj phrase) Pertaining to the situation in which one is rolled up; always followed by the rank of the card. In the previous definition, John would be described as having rolled-up kings.

(v phrase) Slip discards on top of the pack, a cheating move.

(v phrase) Expose one's cards in the manner described under roll-your-own.

(n phrase) Any of various stud games (such as Anaconda), in which players turn their face-down cards up, one at a time, after having prearranged them in the manner in which they wish the cards to appear, generally with a betting round following each exposure.

(n) In private or home games, a hand or round in which the stakes are temporarily increased, usually after a "big" hand is shown down. For example, in a $5-limit game, if aces full or better appears in a showdown, the next hand or the entire next round might be played at $10-limit. Also, rangdoodles, wangdoodles.

(n phrase) 1. The showdown hand that occasions a round or hand of roodles. 2. The round or hand described under roodles.

(n phrase) A betting scheme in which each round of betting starts with the next player clockwise. Typically, the player to the left of the dealer starts the first betting round, the player to his left starts the second round, and so on.

(n) The clockwise progression of betting, or of successive deals.

(n phrase) A game or tournament format in which several different games are played in rotation, usually either half an hour of each or one round of each. Examples include H.O.R.S.E and H.O.S.E.

(n) Substance used for marking the backs of cards. Also see cosmetics, daub.

1. (adj) In lowball, pertaining to the upper spectrum of a class of hands, that is, those topped by two or three cards in sequence. For example, 8-7-6-2-A is a rough 8, while 8-5-3-2-A is a smooth 8. Also, rag. 2. Any not-very-good lowball hand, usually with respect to the particular situation. For example, you call Susie's all-in raise to draw one card. While you are looking at the card you caught, usually Susie would just turn over her cards, so you can see what it is that you have to beat. Instead she just says, "Rough," which implies that almost anything you make will win. Depending on the player, her hand is probably a 10 or even worse, although some needle artists (see needle artist) say this about a straight 7 or even a straight 6.

(v phrase) Change the tempo or temperament of a game by increasing the stakes beyond what are customary.

1. (n) Once around the table, that is, one turn of dealing by each player. 2. round of betting. 3. Once around the table with a similar action, in turn from each player on each deal. For example, if each player, when he or she deals, overblinds (see overblind) the pot, that is called a round from home. 4. Drinks for the table. After winning a big pot, Slick calls to the cocktail waitress, "Serving wench! A round for my friends." 5. (v) dent.

(n) player (definition 3). Some people say rounder and hustler are synonymous, but that's not usually true for all connotations. Others say the same for rounder and thief, but that's even less universally accepted.

(n) rounds.

(n) Performing a cheating maneuver consisting of marking the back of a card with a fingernail or by bending a corner. Also known as denting.

(n phrase) See round (definition 3).

(n phrase) In a draw poker game, one round of a particular opening requirement, as a round of jacks, one round in which jacks or better is dealt. A round of queens, would be one round of queens or better, and so on.

1. (n phrase) One opportunity to bet from each active player. If there are no raises, there is only one round of betting. If there are raises, there is more than one round of betting. 2. One sequence of equalization of bets, that is, the period in which all bets and raises are accounted for; the point from the start of betting until all players have put the same amount into the pot (with the exception of anyone going all in, running out of chips before completing the betting). In draw games, there are two rounds (unless everyone but one bettor folds for a bet on the first round) of betting: one before the draw, and one after. In stud games, there is usually one betting round after the dealing of each upcard, plus a final round on the last card. Sometimes shortened to round.

(n phrase) See round of ...

(n phrase) Any game, particularly poker, in which gamblers wager among themselves (as opposed to betting against the house or any other banker).

(n phrase) around-the-corner straight.

(n) A deck of cards marked on their backs, for easy detection, by feel, by a cheater. Also see nail, peg, and, unfortunately, lots of other vocabulary entries, because thieves have many terms for their methods.

(n) straight flush.

(n) royal flush. "I've got a royal."

(n phrase) The nuts; usually preceded by the. This hand is considered by some to be slightly better than the Royal Brazilians or the Brass Brazilians.

(n phrase) The nuts; usually preceded by the.

(n phrase) A special name given a straight flush topped by an ace, that is, five cards in sequence, 10, J, Q, K, A, all in one suit. In the 52-card deck, when playing without wild cards, this is the highest-ranking poker hand. This hand ranks just above a king-high straight flush. Sometimes called quint major.

(n phrase) In lowball, a 6-4.

(n phrase) A royal flush, a term usually used only by amateurs or those otherwise unfamiliar with poker.

(n) premium.

(n) premium.

(n phrase) shuffle the spots off. "Don't rub the spots off of 'em."

(n phrase) carpet joint.

(n phrase) The written regulations (poker rules) of a particular cardroom on the conduct of a poker game. Poker rules are not standard, although most rule books contain many similar rules. Some rules, such as what hand beats what, are fairly standard, particularly in public cardrooms, while others, such as what constitutes a legitimate bet or raise and the manner in which betting must be made, vary widely. The smart player familiarizes herself with the rule book of a particular establishment before first sitting down to play.

(n phrase) Regulations on the conduct of a poker game, such as what hand beats what, the manner in which bets are made, how each permitted game is played, and so on. Also known as the laws of poker. Compare with poker rules, which are the rules specific to a given cardroom, club, or casino.

(n) decision.

(v) Catch a thief in the act of manipulating the cards.

(n) 1. rush. 2. straight (definition 1).

(v phrase) Make a planned bluff, usually one involving bets in several rounds.

(v phrase) See run through.

(v phrase) "Deal the cards." When the action in any but the last round gets to the player in last position, he might say this when choosing not to bet.

(v phrase) While shuffling, maintain the original order of the cards; that is, perform a false shuffle.

(n) In hold 'em, a flush or straight card that arrives on the fourth or fifth card, appearing for someone who, on the flop, had only three to that particular hand. For example, Loose Larry starts with hole cards of 6-7, unsuited. The flop is A-A-8. The 9 that appears on the turn (see turn card) is a runner.

(n) In hold 'em, flush or straight cards that arrive on the fourth and fifth cards, appearing for someone who, on the flop, had only three to that particular hand. For example, Loose Larry starts with hole cards 2 7. The flop is A K 8. The J 5 that appear on the turn (see turn card) and river are called runner-runner. Larry probably beats Salty Sam, who started with A A and bet it all the way. Sam says, "How can I beat this game? I start with pocket rockets, it's capped before the flop, I flop a set, I'm betting all the way, the live one stays with deuce-seven suited and of course catches runner-runner, while I'm just praying to pair the board, because I know what's gonna happen when I see two hearts and him hanging on." Also called perfect-perfect.

(n phrase) In hold 'em or seven-card stud, a pair made by the appearance of two matching cards in a row that do not match any already on the board. Compare with runner-runner.

(n phrase) drawing snow.

(v phrase) Attempt a bluff. "I tried to run one, but the tightest player at the table got lucky and showed me the Royal Brass Brazilians."

(v phrase) Take advantage of another player, particularly by bluffing. If, in a no-limit game, one player keeps looking at bets too large for him to call, he might ask the person making all those bets, "Are you trying to run over me?"

(v phrase) Bet aggressively, intimidating the other players.

(n) A no-pair hand of mixed suits.

(v phrase) Double a small stack by beating someone with a large stack; sometimes part of the phrase run a stack through. "Big John had $10,000 in front of him, and he was stuck about twice that much. Sally came in with $100, ran it through him three times, and then took the $800 to the window." Also see double through.

(v phrase) Perform a cheating maneuver in which one selects cards from the discards, and arranges these prior to some form of false shuffling such that they will be distributed where the thief wants them to go (usually with one good hand, sometimes more, the best of which will go to the dealer or his confederate). Compare with riffle cull.

(n) 1. winning streak, that is, the winning of several hands in a row, usually implying with good hands. 2. As part of the phrase, on a rush, in the middle of a winning streak.