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Pair Two cards of the same face or number value.

Pass To fold

Passive Checking and calling hands rather betting and raising hands.

Pay Off To call on the final round of betting when you may or may not think you have the best hand.

PFR Pre Flop Raise

Play Back To raise or re-raise another player's bet.

Play the Board To show down a hand in hold'em when your cards don't make a hand any better than is shown on the board. For instance, if you have 22, and the board is 4-4-9-9-A (no flush possible), then you must "play the board": the best possible hand you can make doesn't use any of your cards. Note that if you play the board, the best you can do is split the pot with all remaining players.


Pocket Your unique cards that only you can see. For instance, "He had pocket sixes" (a pair of sixes), or "I had ace-king in the pocket."


Pocket Pair A hold'em starting hand with two cards of the same rank, making a pair. Example: "I had big pocket pairs seven times in the first hour. What else can you ask for?"


Pocket Rockets A pair of Aces in the pocket or hole.

Poker network The group of several poker rooms owned by the same company. Usage: Poker network is like other business networks with satellite companies.

Poker room 1) the unique poker software where players can win money. Advanced software has a connection to internet what gives the feature to play with other players online. 2) the facility in casino or at home where poker games are played at special table.

Post To put in a blind bet, generally required when you first sit down in a cardroom game. You may also be required to post a blind if you change seats at the table in a way that moves you away from the blinds. Example: a player leaves one seat at a table and takes another in such a way that he moves farther from the blinds. He is required to post an extra blind to receive a hand. See also "extra blind."


Pot The money or chips in the center of a table that players try to win.

Pot Odds The amount of money in the pot compared to the amount you must put in the pot to continue playing. For example, suppose there is $60 in the pot. Somebody bets $6, so the pot now contains $66. It costs you $6 to call, so your pot odds are 11:1. If your chance of having the best hand is at least 1 out of 12, you should call. Pot odds also apply to draws. For instance, suppose you have a draw to the nut flush with one card left to come. In this case, you are about a 4:1 underdog to make your flush. If it costs you $8 to call the bet, then there must be about $32 in the pot (including the most recent bet) to make your call correct.


Pot-Committed A state where you are essentially forced to call the rest of your stack because of the size of the pot and your remaining chips.


Pot-Limit Pot-Limit A version of poker in which a player may bet up to the amount of money in the pot whenever it is his turn to act. Like no-limit, this is a very different game from limit poker.


Preflop Pertaining to the bet or situation before the flop. Usage: Like in sentence "When you are in a crazy game that is constantly having capped family pots preflop, you can call with a minimum of 22/JTs/AQ."

Premium Hands The best possible hands.

Protect (1) To keep your hand or a chip on your cards. This prevents them from being fouled by a discarded hand, or accidentally mucked by the dealer. (2) To invest more money in a pot so blind money that you've already put in isn't "wasted." Example: "He'll always protect his blinds, no matter how bad his cards are."


Push When the dealer pushes the chips to the winning player at the end of a hand. It's also when dealers rotate to other tables.