A-B-C, A-B-C-D: a sequence of the lowest cards in a lowball game. For example, the hand 8-6-3-2-A might be called "eight-six-a-b-c".
aces and spaces: A hand with /One pair of aces, and nothing else. Used in a derogatory sense, especially in games such as Seven-card stud where /Two pair is a typical winning hand.
action player: Euphemism for a less skillful player who bets and calls frequently with inferior hands.
advertising: To make an obvious bad play to give opponents a mistaken impression of your skills or habits.
air: In a lowball game, "giving air" is letting an opponent know that you intend to draw one or more cards to induce him to call.
all blue/all pink: A /Flush, "blue" usually referring to black suits and "pink" to red ones. Occasionally one hears "all green" or "all purple".
ammo, ammunition: Chips.
angle: A legal, but borderline unethical, play. For example, deliberately miscalling one's own hand to induce a fold. A player employing such tacticts is called an angle shooter.
baby: A low-ranked card, usually used in lowball games.
backdoor: A draw requiring two or more rounds to fill. For example, catching two consecutive cards in two rounds of Seven-card stud or Texas holdem to fill a /Straight or /Flush. The term can also apply to a hand made other than the had the player intended to make: I started with four hearts hoping for a flush, but I backdoored two kings and my trips won.
bad beat: An event in which a player with a high expectation of winning the pot loses. This expectation may be based on having an unusually strong hand beaten by and even stronger one, or by having an opposing player make an extremely unlikely draw. Bad beat stories are frequent topics of conversation at poker tables. [Lou Krieger]? started a tradition among some players of charging $1 to listen to one. In some casinos there is a bad beat jackpot awarded to a player who suffers a particular beat, for example, having /Four of a kind beaten.
belly buster: Also called a gut shot or inside straight; a drawing hand such as K-Q-10-9, which only one rank of card (in this case, a J) can complete to a /Straight. Compare with bobtail.
bicycle, bicycle wheel: A /Wheel.
blank: Also brick; a card, frequently a /Community card, of no apparent value. I suspected Margaret had a good draw, but the river card was a blank, so I bet again.
bobtail: A outside /Straight draw such as 10-9-8-7, that can be filled by either of two ranks. Occasionally used to refer to a four-card /Flush draw as well.
boxed card: A card encountered face-up in the assembled deck during the deal.
break: In a draw poker game, to discard cards that make a hand in the hope of making a much better one. For example, a player with J-J-10-9-8 may wish to break his jacks to draw for the straight, and a lowball player may break his 9-high 9-5-4-2-A to draw for the /Wheel.
brick: A blank, though more often used in the derogatory sense of a card that is undesirable rather than merely inconsequential.
broadway: An ace-high /Straight. A broadway card is any card that might make such a straight, namely a 10, J, Q, K, or A.
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