| All Red |
Having a heart or diamond flush. Also, all pink. Usage: This term is used only by those who have played a lot in home games and not much in card-rooms. "Red", "Pink" or "Purple" usually referring to red suits and "Blue", "Green" or "Black" to black ones.
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| All the Way |
Betting all one's chips, usually preceded by go. Usage: Like in sentence "If I make this hand, I'm going all the way."
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| All the Way in One Play |
Betting all one's chips, usually preceded by go. Usage: Extended version of "All the Way". Can be used like this: "If I make this hand, I'm going All the Way in One Play."
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| All-In |
When a player bets all his/her chips. Usage: In table stakes games, a player may not go into his pocket for more money during a hand. If he runs out, a side pot is created in which he has no interest. However, he can still win the pot for which he had the chips. Example: "Poor John - he made quads against the big full house, but he was all-in on the second bet."
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| All-In Over the Top |
Raising with all of your chips after an opponents bet. Usage: Like in sentence "I caught Kings and went all in over the top with a small stack against a medium stack." or "John just calls, Tony raises all in over the top."
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| Alone Player |
A card thief working with no confederates. Usage: Like in sentence "When cammeras are on, alone player can affect the play happening only very little."
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| AMC |
Abbreviation of exlamation "All my chips!" An announcement, usually in a no-limit game, on his turn that a player is betting or raising all of his chips. Usage: Like in sentence "What are your bets, gentlemen? - "AMC" - John said loudly."
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| American Airlines |
Two Aces. Usage: This is a name of card combinations which was succesfully used by some player and historically called American Airlines. Abbreviated signing of this term is A-A.
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| Ammo |
Chips. Usage: "Houseman, I need more ammo" is a request for more chips. Shortening of "Ammunition". Semantically ammo means "weapon" and is used in contemporary shooting type computer games.
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| Ammunition |
Chips. Usage: "Houseman, I need more ammunition" is a request for more chips. Also used abbreviation "Ammo". This term means "weapon" and is widely used in contemporary shooting type computer games.
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| An Ace Working |
An ace in hand.
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| Anaconda |
A form of seven stud in which cards are passed to left and right, sometimes multiple times, and sometimes with five cards chosen at the end and rolled, that is, exposed one at a time. Also called pass the trash, Screwy Louie
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| Angle |
An action that isn't against the rules, but still incorporates unfair tactics. Usage: A maneuver, usually on the border between legality and illegality (but usually clearly unethical), to take unfair advantage of another player. Extreme example: Some clubs consider putting fewer chips than required into the pot an uncompleted bet that is not valid until completed, and that, furthermore, can be removed until such time as sufficient chips are bet. (Fortunately, there aren't many such clubs.) In such a club, you bet $100 and another player puts in $99. You show your cards, which have him beat. He says, "I put in only $99; I didn't call your bet." He withdraws the chips. Of course, if he had you beat, he would quietly take the whole pot. If someone pointed out at that juncture that he called only $99, he would probably say, "Oh, pardon me, just an oversight; I meant to call," add the missing chip, and then drag the pot. All of that is part of an angle.
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| Angle-Shooting |
Using unfair tactics. Usage: A poker player who uses various underhanded, unfair methods to take advantage of inexperienced opponents. The difference between an angle shooter and a cheat is only a matter of degree. What a cheat or thief does is patently against the rules; what an angle shooter does may be marginally legal, but it's neither ethical nor gentlemanly. Nor is it in the spirit of the game. Unfortunately, poker is not a gentleman's game. In addition to learning how to protect yourself against cheating players, you must learn to watch out for the angle shooters. See "Angle".
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| Announce |
In high/low games, declaring one's hand as high or low or both ways (usually done with chips in hand). Usually played in home games.
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