Poker is an acclaimed game that has a fan base of millions and millions of ardent supporters everywhere around the globe. The game involves players analyzing their own hands before attempting to determine what cards the competing gamblers have in their hands. The various versions of poker games are Hold’em, Seven Card Stud, Omaha Poker, the Hi/Lo adaptation, Five Card Stud, and Five Card Draw. There are poker chat boards that offer material about the various terms employed in the game. These words are quite baffling and might require a while to learn. In any case, knowing these terms is awfully essential, as players rely them continuously while gambling in a poker game, it does not matter if they are novices or champions.

The phrase ‘aces up’ applies to a pair of aces and an additional pair. ‘Active player’ almost always refers to a player who is still very much involved in a hand. ‘All blue and all Pink’ means that a player holds a hand of 5 cards that are all spades, diamonds, hearts, or clubs. ‘Blank card’ refers to a card that has little or no value in the hand. The term, ‘deal’ refers to the action of assigning cards to gamblers or maintaining the cards on the boards. It pertains to the complete activity from breaking the deck to dealing of the cards and up to when the money has been won, therefore drawing to a close that deal.

Other familiar phrases employed in the game of poker are discard, drawing dead, flop, Fourth Street, kicker, lock up, loose game, and muck. It is important to refer to an accurate catalogue of poker words while attempting to learn the game. There are poker websites that are specifically devoted to offering info about commonly employed poker terms. They have a separate part where the meaning of these words are given accompanied with an example of the justifiable time to employ these words.