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One of the four suits in a Latin-suited pack of cards. [1] Symbol: or beater Term used in games of the Karnöffel family for quasi-trump cards able to beat those of lower rank or with no powers at all. belle The last game of the rubber. [14] bells One of the four suits in a German pack of cards. [1] Symbol: best Highest ranking. [11] best card
An agreement that an opening bid of 1 ♥ or 1 ♠ promises at least four cards in the suit bid. The usual alternative is five-card majors. The four-card major agreement was standard during the first four decades of contract bridge, but has since given way to five-card majors in most "standard" systems such as 2/1 game forcing and Standard ...
Four cards of a kind Fluxus (flush) All cards of the same suit Supremus (fifty-five) The highest possible three-flush, the ace, 6, 7 (plus an unrelated fourth card) and ace card from any other suit. Primero (prime) One card from each suit. It's a four-card hand containing one card of each suit, hence the exact opposite of a flush in poker.
The phrase one-eyed royals is jargon referring to the three face cards showing only one eye: the Jack of Spades (J ♠), Jack of Hearts (J ♥) and King of Diamonds (K ♦). The faces depicted on these three cards are shown in profile, resulting in only one eye being visible. The variant form "one-eyed Jacks" excludes the King of Diamonds.
four-flush Four cards of the same suit. A non-standard poker hand in some games, an incomplete drawing hand in most. See main article: four flush. four of a kind A hand containing four cards of equal rank. Also quads. See list of poker hands. four-straight Four cards in rank sequence; either an open-ender or one-ender.
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.
In natural systems, a 1NT opening bid usually reflects a hand that has a relatively balanced shape (usually between two and four (or less often five) cards in each suit) and a sharply limited number of high card points, usually somewhere between 12 and 18 – the most common ranges use a span of exactly three points (for example, 12–14, 15 ...
Omaha hold 'em derives its name from two types of games. "Hold'em" refers to a game using community cards that are shared by all players. This is opposed to draw games, where each player's hand is composed only of concealed cards, and stud games, where each player's unique hand contains a mix of cards visible to the other players and concealed hole cards.