A verbal declaration by a player, in turn, in a no-limit or spread game, of the amount of his bet, or, in other games, that he is betting. In games in which announced bets are permitted, they are usually binding (when made in turn).

1) Money placed in the pot before the hand is begun. 2) The player to the left of the dealer, usually in an ante and straddle game.
Usage: An ante is not part of a player's next bet, as opposed to a blind, which usually is. All of the antes in a particular pot, taken as a whole; usually preceded by the. "Nobody else had openers when I had aces full, and all I won was the ante." Put an ante into a pot. "Someone's light in this pot; did you ante, Andy?"

A game in which the player to the left of the dealer (the ante) puts in (usually) one chip before getting any cards, and the player to his left (the straddle) puts in two chips. (Sometimes the dealer also puts in one chip.) The first player to have a choice on making a bet after having seen his cards is the player two positions to the left of the dealer. This is an old name for what is now called a two-blind traveling blind game. This is similar to a blind and straddle game. Also see little blind, middle blind, big blind.

An ante, or a chip used to ante.

Put one's ante in the pot.

Same as apology card.
Usage: Like in sentence "There it is, the Apologizer."

In lowball, the appearance in the current hand of the card that would have made one's hand the previous hand.
For example, a player draws to A-2-3-4 and catches a four. Next hand, he looks at the first card he receives from the dealer. It's a five, which he turns face up for the whole table to admire (presumably because some of them may never have seen a five before), while saying, "There it is, the apology card."

Big game, often the biggest game in a particular club.
Usage: Like in sencence "I lost $1000 in the apple today." Also, term "big apple" can be used to emphasize the event.

The queen of clubs. May be an anagram of Regina (queen in Latin), or a corruption of Argea.

Four-card flush.
Usage: This is a name of flush which was succesfully used by some player and historically called Arkansas Flush by the name of one of the USA states Arkansas.

In high draw poker, a special straight, a nonstandard hand sometimes given value in a private or home game, five cards in a series in which the sequence of cards is considered to continue from king through ace.
For example, J-Q-K-A-2. Sometimes the hand ranks between three of a kind and a "normal" straight; sometimes it ranks between a "normal" straight and a flush.

A cheat who manipulates the deck. One who unfairly manipulates the cards, such as a cheat who deals cards from the bottom instead of from the top of the deck (where they should come from), or from the middle, or deals the second card from the top, or who falsely shuffles the cards so as to arrange them in a manner he has predetermined, or who palms cards, or uses any other of scores of cheating methods involving card manipulation or sleight of hand. Synonym - Mechanic.

An ancient Persian game that some say is an ancestor of poker.
Usage: It seems to have originated from a 16th century Persian card game known as As Nas. This game was played with 25 cards with 5 different suits. The game played in a similar fashion to modern 5 card stud and possessed similar poker hands rankings, such as three-of-a-kind. When Europeans began to play the game, they called it "poque" or "pochen." While poker's origins may lie in Europe and Persia, it truly developed in the United States.

A California game, a form of five-card stud played with a stripped deck.
Usage: Asian Five Card Stud Poker is a five card poker game played with a single deck of standard playing cards which has the 2's, 3's, 4's, 5's and 6's removed, leaving 32 cards. Each Player attempts to achieve the best five-card poker hand using the cards dealt to him or her. Each Player competes against all other Players in the game.

The former name for California games. The term is still sometimes used in casinos and card-rooms. Se "California games".