The Official Poker Glossary

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Ace (Ace-high)

The ace is the highest ranked card in poker, but will also play as a low card for straights (A-2-3-4-5). Having “ace-high” means the best possible hand you can make is a high card of an ace. This is worse than any pair.

Action

1) A player’s turn to act. It’s your action.
2) A willingness to gamble or play frequent large pots. An action player.
3) A measure of how active a game is. An action game refers to a game in which there is much betting and raising.
4) A player's investment in a game or wager. Also used to refer to buying some or all of another player's investment in a game or wager. I'll take half your action.

Action Card

A dealt community card which has the possibility of improving multiple players' hands, resulting in a dramatic increase in action.

Add-On

1) In a tournament an add-on is the option for any player to purchase additional chips, regardless of the current size of their chip stack. Typically tournament add-ons are only offered at a specific time during the tournament.
2) Buying more chips between hands in a cash game, adding them on to your stack.

Advertising

To make an obvious, or unusual play at the table with the intent of showing the other players what you just did. Typically advertising is done to give your opponents the impression you’re playing a different style, or are not as strong of a player as you actually are.

Aggression, Aggressive

The extent to which a player is dictating the action with bets and raises is refered to as being aggressive, or having a high level of aggression.

Air

A hand of extremely low relative value. Having air is the equivalent of having nothing, or running a complete bluff. I bluffed with nothing but air.

All in

Having the entirety of your stack in the pot. Being all-in. Moving the entirety of your stack into the pot with a bet, raise or call. She raised all-in.

Angle

An action or move of questionable morality used to take advantage of another player or situation. Any player who uses angling at the table is known as an “angle shooter”.

Ante

A forced bet of a predetermined amount which must be paid by each player prior to receiving their cards.

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