Ace Rag - ace with any low card.

Action - lots of betting, calling and raising in a game.

Aggressive - betting or raising a lot with good hands.

All-In - to push all your chips in and bet all you have.

Ante - small compulsory bet.

Bad Beat - to lose a big hand when you where very short odds to win.

Big Blind - larger compulsory bet preflop, two places from the dealer.

Big Slick - Ace and King hole cards.

Blinds - compulsory bets to get the game going.

Bluff - to bet and represent a large hand, when you don't have it.

Board Cards - community cards on the table.

Boat - another name for a full house.

Brick and Mortar - live card room or casino, as apposed to online.

Bullets - another name for ace, ace hole cards.

Burn - when dealing the board cards, one card is thrown into the muck, pre flop, pre turn and pre river.

Button - position of the dealer, dealer button.

Call - to match a bet or raise.

Calling Station - a player that calls a lot, rarely raises and likes to see the board cards.

Cap - a term used when there is a limit to how many raises can be made in one betting round.

Chase - calls bets when behind in order to see if you hit your cards and catch up to make a winning hand.

Check - if there are no bets before you, or you are big blind, you can use this, means no bet.

Check-Raise - to not bet on one round of betting, but with the intention to re-raise a possible bet.

Community Cards - cards that can be used by any player.

Connected - cards of consecutive denomination.

Cowboys - king, king hole cards.

Dead Money - a player who has paid entry but has no chance of winning a tourney.

Down Card - a hole card, that no one can see.

Drawing Dead - when there is no possible outs to win the hand.

Family Pot - when all or most players call.

Fifth Street - the river, or fifth board card.

Fish - a bad player who loses lots of cash.

Fixed-Limit - a game style, where bets or raises are fixed to a certain amount.

Fold - to lay down your hand.

Fourth Street - the turn, or fourth board card.

Free Card - when top hand doesn't bet, it's allowing other players a free card.

Freeroll - free to enter.

Gutshot - needing the middle card of the five needed to make a straight, known as inside straight draw, also a very good poker room in London.

Heads Up - when there are only 2 players playing or left.

Hole Card - cards dealt to you that no one else can see.

Hooks - jack, jack hole cards.

Implied Odds - your pot odds accounting for any future bets made.

Kicker - the highest spare card that is unrelated to the hand ranking.

Limit Poker - a game style, where bets or raises are fixed to a certain amount.

Limp In - to just call with a big hand.

Loose - to call bets or raises with weak hands.

Maniac - a player that bets and raises a lot with most hands.

Muck - to fold without showing, and the area of the table where the unused cards are.

No Limit - a game style, when there is no limit to the amount you can bet, you can bet or raise your entire stack if you wish.

Nuts - the best possible hand.

Offsuit - cards of different suit.

Outs - cards that can hit to help you win the pot.

Overbet the Pot - to make the bet too big to make the other players odds justify a call.

Overpair - a higher pair of hole cards than on the board.

Pair - two cards of the same denomination.

Passive - a player that doesn't make many bets or raises.

Play Money - not real money.

Pocket Pair - two hole cards of the same denomination.

Pocket Rockets - ace, ace hole cards.

Position - where you sit at the table compared to where the dealer button is.

Pot Limit - a game style, you can only ever bet what is already in the pot as a maximum.

Pot Odds - the amount of the money you could win, compared to the price of the bet or call.

Preflop - before the first three board cards are dealt.

Quads - another name for four of a kind.

Rainbow - mixture of suits with three or four cards.

Raise - to make a bigger bet after an earlier bet.

Rake - a cut taken by sites, clubs or casinos in ring and cash games.

River - the fifth board card, or fifth street.

Rock - a player that is tight and conservative.

Scare Card - when a card turns up on the board, which could make someone a very strong hand.

Semi-Bluff - to bet and represent a large hand, when you have an average hand or a hand which may not be in front at the moment which will be in front if you hit the right card.

Set - another name for three of a kind.

Sidepot - a section of the pot which is to be contested over with remaining players when someone is all in.

Slowplay - to have a very good hand but don't bet with it, hoping to trap players.

Small Blind - smaller compulsory bet preflop, one place to the left of the dealer.

Stack - your chips in total.

Suited - cards of the same suit.

Tight - a description for a player that plays few & good hands.

Tilt - to get upset over previous hand and let it effect your other hands, would be "on tilt".

Trips - another name for three of a kind.

Turn - the fourth board card, or fourth street.

Under the Gun - the player left of big blind, first to act with the option to call or bet.

Underpair - a pair hole cards of the same denomination, with at least one card higher on the board.

Wired Pair - two cards of the same denomination hole cards, also known as pocket pair.