Word | Description |
Table Stakes | A rule in a poker game meaning that a player may not go into his pocket for money during a hand. He may only invest the amount of money in front of him into the current pot. If he runs out of chips during the hand, a side pot is created in which he has no interest. All casino poker is played table stakes. The definition sometimes also includes the rule that a player may not remove chips from the table during a game. While this rule might not be referred to as "table stakes", it is enforced almost universally in public poker games. |
Tell | An action that gives clues about the cards someone is holding. |
Thin | As in "drawing thin." To be drawing to a very few outs, perhaps only one or two. |
Third Street | In Poker this is the first betting round on the first three cards. |
Three of a Kind | Three cards of the same number or face value ("trips"). |
Tilt | To play wildly or recklessly. A player is said to be "on tilt" if he is not playing his best, playing too many hands, trying wild bluffs, raising with bad hands, etc. |
Top and Bottom | Top and Bottom
Two pair, with your two hole cards pairing the highest and lowest cards on the board. |
Top Pair | A pair with the highest card on the flop. If you have As-Qs, and the flop comes Qd-Th-6c, you have flopped top pair. See "second pair." |
Top Set | The highest possible trips. Example: you have Tc-Ts, and the flop comes Td-8c-9h. You have flopped top set. |
Top Two | Two pair, with your two hole cards pairing the two highest cards on the board. |
Trips | Three of a kind where you have only 1 of the holecards and the other two are community cards. |
Turbo | Type of Tournaments where the blinds increase faster than usual
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Turn | The fourth community card. Put out face up, by itself. Also known as "fourth street." |