Coming to Terms with Proper Poker Lingo

As any player worth his — or her — salt knows, poker has what amounts to its own secret language.

There are donks and donkeys, which do not mean what they mean in day to day language. There are various disparaging terms, as well as praising ones.

If all you know of poker lingo comes from TV and movies, you need to reevaluate what you think you know, otherwise you might find yourself in a very tight spot.

Antes have become almost obsolete, for instance, in all but the most traditional poker games. They have been replaced by big blinds and small blinds.

There are board cards, or community cards, which you are never going to see in a stud game, and therein are yet more specialized terms — the draw, the pre flop, the flop, the turn, and the river.

You need to know about limit poker, shorthand poker, longhand poker, the outs, and the importance of position.

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