Glossary of terms used on this site dealing with poker
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| Term | Definition |
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| Widow |
1) A card or cards common to all hands (Spit Card). 2) The money cut from pots (Kitty). |
| Wild Annie |
See Double-Barreled Shotgun. |
| Wild Card |
A card that can be played as any value. |
| Wild Game |
1) A game using wild cards. 2) A highly spirited or fast-paced game. |
| Wild Widow |
A card turned up for use as a wild card (with all similar cards being wild) in every player's hand (Spit Card). |
| Window |
The card exposed or flashed at the end of a player's closed hand. |
| Window Dressing |
A card purposely flashed from one's closed hand. |
| Wing |
To have a winning streak. |
| Winning Hand |
A winning hand is one that you get paid for. For most video poker games the lowest winning hand is a Pair of Jacks. In Deuces Wild Video Poker, it's Three of a Kind. |
| Wired |
Or Back-to-Back. A pair, trips, or four of a kind dealt consecutively or back-to-back in a hand... usually in a stud hand starting with the first card. |
| Wired Pair |
A pair in the hole. In 5-card stud, a door card that pairs the hole card. |
| Wooden Hand |
A hand that cannot improve or that cannot possibly win. Comes from deadwood, a term for the discards. |
| Woolworth |
1) In lowball, a 10-5 hand. 2) In high, two pair, 10s and 5s. 3) In hold 'em, a 10 and 5 as one's first two cards. 4) Any game in which 10s and 5s are wild. 5) A nonstandard hand sometimes given value in a private or home game, five cards 5 to 10 with no pair, which ranks above three of a kind and below a straight. For all definitions 1 to 4, also called dime store; for definitions 2 and 3 only, sometimes also called dime stores.
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| Woppitzer |
Someone with body odor or bad breath who hangs around card games (on the outside), often offering gratuitous advice and unwanted opinions, commenting on the play, and generally being obnoxious and the worst kind of kibitzer. |
| Work the Broads |
Cheat at cards, particularly three-card monte. |
