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Sandbag -
To check a strong hand with the intention
of raising or re-raising.
Satellite -
A small-stakes tournament whose winner obtains
cheap entry into a bigger tournament.
Scare Card -
An up card that looks as though it might
have made a strong hand.
School - The
players in a regular game.
Scoop - To
win the entire pot.
Scooting -
Passing chips to another player after winning
a pot; horsing.
Seat Charge -
In public cardrooms, an hourly fee for playing
poker.
Seating List -
In most cardrooms, if there is no seat available
for you when you arrive, you can put your
name on a list to be seated when a seat opens
up.
Second Pair -
In flop games, pairing the second highest
card on board.
See To call.
Semi-Bluff -
To bet with a hand which isn't the best hand,
but which has a reasonable chance of improving.
Set - Three
of a kind; trips (usually applies to a pair
in hand and a matching card on board).
Set You In -
To bet as much as your opponent has left
in front of him.
Seventh Street -
The final betting round on the last card
in Seven-Card Stud.
Shill A cardroom
employee, often an off-duty dealer, who plays
with house money to make up a game.
Shootout -
A tournament format in which a single player
ends up with the entire prize money, or in
which play continues at each table until
only one player remains.
Short Odds -
The odds for an event that has a good chance
of occurring.
Short-Stacked -
Having only a small number of chips left.
Show One, Show All -
A rule that says if a player shows their
cards to anyone at the table they can be
asked to show everyone else.
Showdown -
The point at the end of the final round of
betting when all the remaining player's cards
are turned up to see which player has won
the pot.
Side Card -
An unmatched card which may determine the
winner between two otherwise equal hands.
Side Pot -
A separate pot contested by other players
when one player is all-in.
Sixth Street -
In Seven-Card Stud, the fourth round of betting
on the sixth card.
Skin - To
fix the cards; cheat.
Slow Play -
Disguising the value of a strong hand by
underbetting, to trick an opponent.
Slowroll -
To reveal one's hand slowly at showdown,
one card at a time, to heighten the drama.
Small Blind -
The smaller of the two compulsory bets in
flop games, made by the player in the first
postion to the dealer's left.
Smooth - The
best possible low hand with a particular
high card.
Smooth Call -
To call rather than raise an opponent's bet.
Snap Off -
To beat another player, often a bluffer,
and usually without a powerful hand.
Speed - The
level of aggressiveness with which you play.
Fast play is more aggressive, slow play is
more passive.
Splash Around -
To play more loosely than you should.
Splash The Pot -
To throw your chips into the pot, instead
of placing them in front of you. This makes
it difficult for the dealer to determine
the amount you bet.
Split - A
tie.
Spread - When
a cardroom starts a table for a particular
game, it is said to spread that game. If
you want to know what games are played in
a particular place, you can ask what they
spread.
Spread Limit -
Betting limits in which there is a fixed
minimum and maximum bet for each betting
round.
Squeeze -
To look slowly at the extremities of your
hole cards, without removing them from the
table, to worry your opponents and heighten
the drama.
Stack - The
pile of chips in front of a player.
Stand Pat -
To decline an opportunity to draw cards.
Stand-Off -
A tie, in which the players divide the pot
equally.
Stay - To
remain in a hand with a call rather than
a raise.
Steal - A
bluff in late position, attempting to steal
the pot from a table of apparently weak hands.
Steaming -
Playing poorly and wildly, often because
the player is emotionally upset.
Steel Wheel -
In lowball, a straight flush, five high (Ace-2-3-4-5).
Straddle -
To make a blind raise before the deal; big
blind.
Straight -
Five consecutive cards of mixed suits.
Straight Flush -
Five consecutive cards of the same suit.
Streak - A
run of good or bad cards.
String Bet -
An illegal bet in which a player puts some
chips in the pot, then reaches back to his
stack for more, without having first verbally
stated the full amount of his bet.
Structure -
The limits set upon the ante, forced bets
and subsequent bets and raises in any given
game.
Stuck - Slang
for losing, often a substantial amount of
money.
Stud - Any
form of poker in which the first card or
cards are dealt down, or in the hole, followed
by several open, or face up, cards.
Suck Out -
To win a hand by hitting a very weak draw,
often with poor pot odds.
Suited - Cards
of the same suit.
Sweat - To
watch a player from the rail.
Sweeten The Pot -
Slang for raise.
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