Ante - A small amount of money paud by each player to seed the pot at the beginning of a poker hand. Most Holdem games use blinds to get initial money into the pot.

Backdoor - Making a hand you weren't playing for - you play for a full house but make a flush;

Board - The board on which a waiting list is kept for poker players wanting seats in specific games;

Big Slick - refers to holding an Ace and King as your two private cards;

Check - Another word for chip, as in poker chip;

Connector - Texas Holdem poker starting hand in which the two cards are one apart in rank;

Cut - Cut - Dividing the deck into two sections in such a manner as to change the order of the cards;

Draw Dead - Even if made, try to make a hand that, will not win the pot. In case when you are drawing to make a flush and your opponent already has a full house, you are drawing dead;

Deal Twice - In case when there is no more betting, agreeing to have the rest of the cards to come determine only half the pot, removing those cards, and dealing again for the other half of the pot;

Early Position - In early betting position for a hand weakest position;

Fast - To play a hand aggressively, betting and raising as much as possible;

Full Buy - A buy-in of at least the minimum amount of chips needed for a particular poker game;

Garbage Hand - A hand, which contains worthless cards;

Implied Odds - This represents the pot odds that do not exist at the moment, but may be included in your calculations because of bets you expect to win if you hit your hand;

Kansas City Lowball - Draw poker variation also known as deuce-to-seven;

Late Position - The positions of the last three players in Holdem games;

Muck - To fold one's hand without showing your own cards;

Must-Move - When the players of a second game must move into the first game as openings occur;

Open-Ended Straight Draw - A straight draw with four consecutive cards, which can be completed on either end;

Overcall - To post a call bet after one or more others players have already called;

Pot Odds - Pot Odds refers to the odds or percentage of making your winning hand compared to the odds or percentage of the bet you can call compared to the CURRENT size of the pot;

Protect - Keeping your hand or a chip on your cards.

River - This is the dealing of the fifth and final card of the five community cards dealt in Texas Holdem;

Runner - Describing a hand which was made only by catching the correct cards on both the turn and the river;

Split Pot - Shared pot by two or more poker players because they have equipollence hands;

Spread Limit - A betting structure where a player can bet any amount in a range on every betting round;

Straight - This is five cards of any suit in ascending order. The ace can be either high or low and the high straight wins the tie;

Toke - Small amount of money given to the dealer by the winner of a pot;

Top Pair - when you have a pair with one of your pocket cards and the highest card on the board;

Wait for the Blind - This prevents his getting free hands. Instead of coming in the middle of a rotation, some clubs do not let a new online poker player be dealt in until it is his turn to put in the blind;