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A Baby – A small card.
Back Door Flush (or Straight) – When the last two cards make a player’s hand, even though he or she played on the flop for some other reason.
Back Into A Hand – To draw into a hand different from the one you were originally trying to make.
Bad Beat – When a strong hand is beaten by a lucky hand; a longshot win.
Bankroll – The amount of money you have available to wager.
Behind – You’re behind if you don’t have the best hand before the last cards have been dealt.
Belly Buster – A draw to fill an inside straight; a gut shot.
Bet – To voluntarily put money or chips into the pot.
Bet For Value – Betting in order to raise the amount in the pot, not to make your opponents fold.
Bet Into – To bet before a stronger hand, or a player who bet strongly on the previous round.
Bet The Pot – To bet the total value of the pot. Betting Black Betting $100 amounts (black is a common color for $100 chips).
Betting Green – Betting $25 amounts (green is a common color for $25 chips).
Betting Red – Betting $5 amounts (red is a common color for $5 chips).
Betting White – Betting $1 amounts (white is a common color for $1 chips).
Betting Interval – The period during which each active player has the right to check, bet or raise; the round of betting. It ends when the last bet or raise has been called by all players still in the hand.
Bicycle – The lowest possible hand in lowball: Ace-2-3-4-5. Also called a wheel.
Big Bet Poker – Another term for pot-limit and no-limit poker.
Big Blind – The forced bet in second position before any cards are dealt. Usually this is a Live Blind, which means that the player in this position can raise if no one else has before the cards are dealt.
Big Slick – The Ace-King card combination.
Black Leg – Archaic term for crooked card-sharp.
Blank – A card that is of no value to a player’s hand.
Blind – A forced bet that one or more players to the dealer’s left must make before any cards are dealt to start the action on the first round of betting.
Blind Raise – When a player raises without first looking at his or her cards.
Blow Back – To lose back one’s profits.
Bluff – To bet or raise with a hand that is unlikely to be the best hand.
Board – In flop games, the five cards that are turned face up in the center of the table; in Seven-Card Stud, the four cards that are dealt face up to each player.
Boat – Another name for full house.
Bottom Pair – When you use the lowest card on the flop to make a pair.
Bounty – A small amount of cash awarded to a player when he knocks out another player in some tournaments.
Brick – A blank.
Bring-In – The forced bet made on the first betting round by the player dealt the lowest card showing in Seven-Card Stud and the highest card showing in razz.
Bring It In – To start the betting on the first round.
Broadway – An ace high straight.
Brush – A cardroom employee responsible for managing the seating list.
Buck – In all flop games, a small disk used to indicate the dealer, or used to signify the player in the last position if a house dealer is used; a button.
Bug – A Joker that can be used to make straights and flushes and can be paired with Aces, but not with any other cards.
Bullet – An Ace.
Bullets – A pair of Aces.
Bump – To raise.
Buried Pair – In stud games, a pair in the hole.
Burn – To deal off the top card, face down, before dealing out the cards (to prevent cheating); or to set aside a card which has been inadvertently revealed.
Bust – A worthless hand that has failed to improve as the player hoped; a busted hand.
Bust a Player – To deprive a player of all his chips; in tournament play, to eliminate a player.
Bust Out – To be eliminated from a tournament by losing all your chips.
Busted Broke, tapped.
Busted Flush – A hand with only four of five cards in a flush. Button In all flop games, a small disk used to signify the player in the last position if a house dealer is used; a buck.
Buy-In – The miniumum amount of money required to sit down in a particular game.
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