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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.
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
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.
In community card poker, a two pair hand, with each pair made of one of a player's hole cards, and one community card. spread The range between a table's minimum and maximum bets spread-limit A form of limit poker where the bets and raises can be between a minimum and maximum value. The spread may change between rounds. squeeze play
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 ...
Go Fish: In the pair-forming variant played between two players, the Joker pair is often used to bring the number of pairs to 27 and prevent a 13–13 tie. Dou dizhu: Jokers are used as the highest value cards; one is little and one is big, usually the colored one being bigger. Both Jokers together is the only unbeatable play.
Runs (1 point for each card) Pairs (2 points each. Multiple pairs are scored pair by pair but may be referred to as three or four of a kind.) Four-card flush (All four cards in the hand of the same suit score 4 points.) Five-card flush (All four cards in the hand of the same suit as the starter card score 5 points.
Jack cards of all four suits in the English pattern. A Jack or Knave, in some games referred to as a Bower, in Tarot card games as a Valet, is a playing card which, in traditional French and English decks, pictures a man in the traditional or historic aristocratic or courtier dress generally associated with Europe of the 16th or 17th century.