1) Losing. 2) With regard to a reference position at the table, acting after (usually immediately after). If the deal is one position to your left, you are behind the deal. If a player is sitting to your left, he acts behind you.
Usage: Like in sentence "Are you behind or ahead?"

1) Describing a situation in which a player is far ahead of a game and thus playing only premium hands. 2) (of a poker player) playing conservatively because he is winning and wants to protect his gains.
Usage: Like in sentence "He was playing behind a log."

A draw and/or catch to an Inside Straight.
Usage: Like in sentence "Harry hit his 4-out belly buster on the river."

To place chips into the pot.
Usage: Saying "It's three bets up to you" means, if you come into the pot, you have to put in three betting units." If you were in a $2-limit game, you would have to put $6 in the pot to play (or $8-four bets-if you raised); If you were in a $200-limit game, you would have to put $600 in the pot to play.

Make a bet without looking at one's cards.
Usage: This occurs most frequently in lowball, in which a player draws one or more cards and, on the second round of betting, bets before receiving the card or cards. This is done usually for the purpose of stimulating action, but sometimes to discourage an opponent from raising. Sometimes players claim to bet blind but have actually seen their draw card or cards; doing this is considered bad form, and gives the claimant a bad reputation. The term is also heard in seven-card stud, with a player betting before receiving the river card, or in hold'em before the river card is dealt.

Bet a hand with the intention of getting called by one or more lesser hands, as opposed to getting the others to fold. Usually implies betting a hand that has only a slight edge, and one that a conservative player would likely check with. Also value bet.

To announce a bet before cards are dealt or looking at your hand.
Usage: Like in sentence "Phil announced a $5000 bet in the dark before the flop cards were dealt".

To wrest the initiative from a player who bet strongly the previous round, by betting instead of checking.
Usage: As in: "I bet into him and he folded."

The odds you get as a result of evaluating the number of callers to a raise.
Usage: Like in sentence "With a 1 in 5 chance of hitting it, and knowing all six of these guys are gonna call my bet, my bet odds are good too."

To bet the maximum amount allowed.
Usage: Like in sentence "Next time you see those light posts on slot machines, just think of craps - and how to bet the limit!"

To bet an amount of chips approximately equal to the amount of chips in the pot.
Usage: In Pot Limit games, this is the maximum bet; however, the pot size in Pot-Limit games is calculated in an unintuitive way: all the money in the pot, plus (if you have been raised) the amount you would bet if you reraised. Also known as Pot-Sized Bet.

The dollar limits of all bets and raises permitted.
Usage: Like in sentences: "Monthly betting stakes up 53%, averaged £2.5 million per month, in comparison to comparative period for the acquired businesses in 2000." Or "Most games can withstand a tenfold to hundred fold increase in the betting stakes."

1) The lowest possible holding (5,4,3,2,1) in lowball and high-low poker. 2) Ubiquitous design on the back of cards in the USA, produced at the rate of 30,000 a day by the US Playing Card Company; hence "The Bicycle Club" in Bell Gardens, near Los Angeles, California
Usage: Like in sentence "The turn gave me a bicycle, and I still had the nut flush draw."

A designated amount that is placed by the player sitting in the second position, clockwise from the dealer, before any cards are dealt. (Players joining a game in progress must post a Big Blind, but may do so from any position.) In World Poker Tour (tournament play) this amount increases after each timed round.

An open-ended 4-card straight flush.
Usage: A nonstandard hand sometimes given value in a private or home game, four cards to a straight flush. The hand ranks just below four of a kind. If the fifth card makes a pair, the hand beats any unpaired bobtail.