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Texas Holdem Glossary User comments

Darkstep
We were playing Texas Holdem and we couldn't remember what each of the different rounds was called, you know, the River, and the Turn and all that and then we found this site with all the info we needed. What's better is that we discovered it is possible to play Texas Holdem online for real money
Skibadee
Hi, Ive been playing poker regularly on this site and I wanted to help out the community by adding any missing terms to the various glossaries located on this site. However I dont see any way to edit the pages and frankly Id rather be gambling, so, later all. Jeff
NielsSs
Hallo, Ive regelmatig spelend poker op deze plaats en ik wilde de gemeenschap uit helpen door om het even welke ontbrekende termijnen aan de diverse verklarende woordenlijsten toe te voegen die op deze plaats worden gevestigd. Nochtans zie ik geen manier om de pagina's uit te geven en eerlijk gezegd gokt Identiteitskaart eerder, zo, later allen. Jeff
Herrera, Jessie
Knowing the vocabulary is very important when you play Texas Holdem or any other casino game. I usually go for the online variant of the game so it is easy to check a term if you do not know it, but I hate to be slowed down by something like that.
Parks, Tammi
The terms you give here are very useful so I will use them, I think everyone should know the glossary of the game by heart to be good at the game.

Blinds: These are forced bets made by the first two players sitting after the dealer. They're made before any cards are dealt, which is why they're called 'blind' bets. The first blind is posted by the player sitting to the left of the dealer, who makes the 'small blind'. This bet is half the size of the minimum bet for the game. The next player posts the 'big blind', which is the full size of the game's minimum bet. At that point, each of the remaining players must call the big blind. As the dealer button travels around the table, so too do the blind positions. This helps drive the action, since it guarantees there's always money in the pot.

Board In Texas Hold'em: 5 community cards will eventually be dealt face up on the middle of the table. These cards are also refered to as the "board". The 2 cards dealt to each player are not part of the board.

Check-Raise: A player checks his hand to give the impression that he has an average hand, so that another player might raise at which point the player who checked earlier would then raise again so as to make a bigger pot.

Flop: The first three cards dealt into the community pile is known as the Flop.

Nuts or Nut Hand: To have the highest hand possible at that point in the hand. This status is likely to change when more cards are added to the board.

Rake: The casino takes a certain commission from each pot. This 'rake' can be either a percentage of the pot or a set amount.

River: This is the 5th and final card to be added to the 5 community cards. It's also called '5th Street'. Suited Connectors Cards one holds that are in consecutive order and that share a suit. Turn When the 4th of the 5 community cards is dealt, this is called the 'turn'. It's also sometimes called '4th Street'.