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Here are some words and terms from Poker Glossary:

 ACE HIGH - A five-card hand containing an Ace but no pair. 

ACES FULL - A Full House with Aces over any pair. 

ACES UP - Two pairs one of which is an Ace.

ACTION - A player?s turn to act.

ACTIVE PLAYER - A player still in the pot. 

ADD ON - The opportunity to buy additional chips. 

ALL-IN -  When you have put all of your playable money and chips into the pot during the course of a hand, you are said to be all-in. 

ANTE - A prescribed amount posted before the start of a hand by all players. 

BIG BLIND - The largest regular blind in a game. 

BLIND - A required bet made before any cards are dealt. 

BROKEN GAME - A game no longer in action. 

BURNCARD - After the initial round of cards is dealt, the first card off the deck in each round that is placed under a chip in the pot, for security purposes. To do so is to burn the card; the card itself is called the burncard. 

BUTTON - A player who is in the designated dealer position. 

BUY-IN - The minimum amount of money required to enter any game. 

CALL - To call is to match the current bet. 

CHECK - To initiate the betting in a round, but to retain the right to act if another player initiates the betting. 

DEAD CARD - A card that is not legally playable. 

FLOP - A series of games with five community cards. These are called flop games. Holdem and Omaha are two popular flop games. The flop is the first three community cards dealt. 

FOLD - To muck your cards because someone else has made a larger bet than you are willing to call. 

FORCED BET - A blind bet or a bring-in. 

HAND - Everything that occurs after the initial shuffling of the cards. A hand also has several other meanings, such as the five cards that you chose to play in games with more than five cards. 

LIVE BLIND - A blind bet giving a player the option of raising if no one else has raised. 

MIDDLE PAIR - If you pair one of your pocket cards to the second highest card on the flop, you have middle pair. 

MUCK - The act of throwing your cards away because you cannot or did not win the pot. They are ineligible to win the pot if they are mucked. 

PLAY BEHIND - Have chips in play that are not in front of you. 

PLAY THE BOARD - Using all five community cards for your hand in Holdem. 

PLAY OVER - To play in a seat when the occupant is absent. 

POT - The money gathered in the middle of the table from blinds, bets, and raises. This money goes to the winner, or winners as the case may be. 

RAISE - To increase the amount of the bet after the betting has already been opened in a round. 

RAKE -  The house cut of each pot. 

STREET - Cards dealt on a particular round in stud games. 

RE-BUY - To buy more chips. This is only legal in re-buy tournaments. 

RIVER - The fifth and final community card dealt in flop games, or the last card dealt in non-flop games. 

SHOWDOWN - The showdown occurs at the end of a hand, to determine the winner, if there is more than one player left. 

SHUFFLE - The mixing and rearranging of the cards before each hand so that the cards occur randomly. This is done by the dealer. 

TELL - Something a player will do that gives away their hand. 

TILT - To play recklessly. 

UPCARDS - Cards that are dealt face up for opponents to see in stud games. 

WILD CARD - Games that use a wild card are called wild card games. A wild card is a card that can serve as any other card in making your hand.

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