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Hand of cards during a game. The following is a glossary of terms used in card games.Besides the terms listed here, there are thousands of common and uncommon slang terms. Terms in this glossary should not be game-specific (e.g. specific to bridge, hearts, poker or rummy), but apply to a wide range of card games played with non-proprietary pac
A tight aggressive style of play in which a player plays a small number of strong starting hands, but when in pots plays aggressively. tainted outs Cards that improve a hand so that it is better than the other current hands, but simultaneously improve other hands even more. See also outs tank, in the tank To take an excessive amount of time to ...
Once, while playing down on the coast, a player wins a big pot. He slaps his cards down on the table and announces "I've got a Jimmy Somerfield!". Then Jimmy says "Let me introduce myself", and shows the player his ID. I was dealing a four eight game one night to Jimmy, a few other dealers and a bunch of locals. A fairly loose game.
The following is a list of nicknames used for individual playing cards of the French-suited standard 52-card pack.Sometimes games require the revealing or announcement of cards, at which point appropriate nicknames may be used if allowed under the rules or local game culture.
Greek hold 'em follows the same rules as Omaha, except that each player is only dealt two cards, same as in Texas hold 'em. In Greek hold 'em each player must use both hole cards along with 3 of the total available community cards to make the strongest five card hand, unlike Texas hold 'em where each player may play the best five card poker hand from any combination of the seven cards ...
C. Card advantage; Card binder; Card money (cards) Card player; Card points; Card sharp; Card sleeve; Carte blanche (cards) Chosen suit; Clubs (card suit) Collectible card game
The following is a glossary of traditional English-language terms used in the three overarching cue sports disciplines: carom billiards referring to the various carom games played on a billiard table without pockets; pool, which denotes a host of games played on a table with six pockets; and snooker, played on a large pocket table, and which has a sport culture unto itself distinct from pool.
1. A card game in which players try to approach 21 but not exceed it 2. The best possible hand in the game blackjack, made up of an ace and a card valued at 10 (namely, 10, J, Q, K). bust Having a total over 21. bust card The individual card that brings the hand's total over 21. basic strategy