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Poker Terms starting with the letter F

   face
1. (n)  face card.1

2. (n)  The front of a card, that is, the side that shows its rank and suit, as opposed to the back. Also called front.1

3. (v)  Turn face up, as one's card.1

   face card
1. (n)  Any jack, queen, or king. Also called court card, paint, picture, picture card, redskin.1

   factory defect
1. (n phrase)  An irregularity in one or more cards, such as misprinted or flawed cards or other unintentional markings, which could permit observant players to identify some (or, rarely, all) of the cards from the back. Also see honest reader, imperfect deck.1

   false cut
1. (n phrase)  A cheating maneuver in which the deck appears to be cut, but the stacked portion remains unchanged at the top.1

2. (v phrase)  Give the deck such a cut.1

   false openers
1. (n)  A hand that was opened without having opening requirements. For example, in jacks or better, the opener must have already in his hand at least a pair of jacks. Someone in next-to-last position in an unopened pot might have four cards to a straight flush and dearly like to open the pot. If he does, he is said to have false openers. Usually the opener of a pot has to show openers. If he cannot prove he had openers, the player cannot win the pot.1

   false shuffle
1. (n)  An appearance of shuffling the cards by a cheat, but without actually changing their order (from a presumably set-up arrangement), by pulling one half of the pack through the other half, and then replacing the deck to its original position. 1

2. (v)  Give the deck such a shuffle.1

   family pot
1. (n)  A pot in which all (or almost all) of the players call before the flop. 2

2. (n)  When everyone at the table decides to enter a pot (e.g., see the flop in hold'em), it's said to be a family pot. 3

3. (n)  A pot with a lot of players, sometimes as many as all at the table. Also community pot.1

   fan
1. (v)  Mix the cards; shuffle the deck.1

2. (v)  Spread the cards face up on the table in an overlapping fashion.1

3. (v)  Spread the cards in one's hand in such a way that just the edge of each can be seen; usually done by holding the whole deck so it ends up looking like a fan.1

4. (n)  The semicircular spread deck as sometimes held by a magician when asking you to "pick a card, any card."1

   farm
1. (n)  The ranch. When a player goes all in, someone may say, "He's betting the farm."1

   fast
1. (v)  To play fast is to play aggressively. The opposite of playing slow. See also speeding. 3

2. (adv)  Usually part of the phrase fast action, fast game, fast player, or play fast.1

   fast action
1. (n)  The state of a fast game. Also see pace.1

   fast game
1. (n)  One with a lot of action (definition 1), that is, with lots of betting, raising, and reraising from most of the players.1

   fast pace
1. (n)  See pace.1

   fast peek
1. (n)  A quick look at one's cards, done by an angle shooter in such a way as to elude detection (usually with the intention of then claiming to be betting blind). 1

2. (n)  A quick look by a thief at part of the deck. See peek 1

   fast play
1. (adv)  To play a hand aggressively, betting and raising as much as possible. Example: "When you flop a set but there's a flush draw possible, you have to play it fast." 2

   fast player
1. (n)  An aggressive player, one who bets at almost every opportunity. In a no-limit game, one who bets large at almost every opportunity, often on risky propositions. One who bets and raises frequently, in an attempt to drive out timid or conservative players. Also see play fast.1

   fast shuffle
1. (n)  false shuffle.1

   fat
1. (adj)  Winning.1

2. (adj)  Having money, usually as a result of having had a recent windfall, often in the form of a large win. Also, flush.1

   fatten
1. (v)  Put more chips in the pot; also sweeten. 1

2. (v)  Give one's chips to a particular player; usually followed by up. "I don't know why I keep giving him action; all I do is fatten him up all the time."1

   favorite
1. (n)  The hand that is expected to win most often in a particular situation. In hold'em, AA is always a pre-flop favorite. If the flop is 775, the player with 75 is now a pretty big favorite. I knew he was on the flush draw, so I figured I was still a favorite. 3

2. (n)  The hand that has the best chance of winning. In a stud or hold 'em-type game, this is said of a given hand before the last round is dealt or fifth street of the flop; in a draw game, this is said before the draw. Opposite of dog 1

3. (n)  The player who has the best chance of winning a particular hand (or just of winning in a particular session or in a tournament).1

   feed
1. (v)  Throw money off to someone. "You've been feeding him all day. How about throwing off some chips this way?"1

   feed the kitty
1. (v)  feed the pot. 1

2. (v)  Call any bet.1

3. (v)  ante 1

   feed the pot
1. (n)  Bet or call foolishly, or knowing that one is taking the worst of it. Also, feed the kitty.1

   feeler
1. (n)  In a no-limit game, a small bet made to see if anyone will raise or to determine who will just call.1

   felt
1. (n)  The surface of most poker tables is made of some sort of felt, or is in any case referred to as such. A player who is running out of chips rapidly can be referred to as "down to the felt."3

2. (n)  The cloth surface covering a card table. By extension, bet down to the felt means to bet all one's chips, and down to the felt means broke. Also, green.1

   fence hopper
1. (n)  hitchhiker 1

   fence jumper
1. (n)  hitchhiker 1

   fever
1. (n)  A 5, referring to the card or to a bet of that amount. When a 5 turns up on the board in hold 'em, you may hear the dealer or the table clown say, "Fever in the north and the doctor went south."1

   fifth street
1. (n)  In seven-card stud, the fifth card dealt to each player. Following this card is the third round of betting.1

2. (n)  In hold 'em-type games, the fifth (and final) card of the board (definition 2). Following this card is the fourth round of betting.1

3. (n)  Pertaining to fifth street. He made a fifth-street bet.1

   figure
1. (n)  face card.1

   filet
1. (n)  full house.1

   filet gumbo
1. (n)  full house.1

   fill
1. (v)  Make a full house. 1

2. (v)  Make any specified hand. "I've got three aces. I call." "No good; I filled the flush." Sometimes fill in.1

   fill in
1. (v)  "I filled in the flush."1

   fill up
1. (v)  To draw to andmake a full house either from trips or two pair. 3

2. (v)  Make a full house. "I've got a flush. I call." "No good; I filled up."1

   filly
1. (n)  full house.1

   fin
1. (n)  $5.1

   final table
1. (n)  In a tournament involving multiple tables, as players are eliminated, tables are combined; when only enough players remain to form one full table, that is the final table. Making it to the final table sometimes guarantees a prize. (See in the money.) Also see freeze-out tournament, playoffs, rebuy tournament, and shootout tournament.1

   finger
1. (n)  See on the cuff.1

   finger poker
1. (n)  A poker game in which players play on credit.1

   finky dink
1. (n)  In hold 'em, 8-5 as one's first two cards.1

   finsky
1. (n)  $5.1

   fire
1. (v)  Bet. When an aggressive player bets a large amount in a no-limit game, he may say, "Fire!" (He may not.)1

   first ace
1. (n)  A method of determining, at the start of a game, who will be the first dealer. Someone, the house dealer in a casino game or one of the players in a home game, starts dealing cards one at a time face up to each player, and the player who receives the first ace becomes the dealer.1

   first base
1. (n)  The first position to the left of the house dealer in a poker game or at a blackjack table. In poker, also called age.1

   first break
1. (n)  In a cardroom, having a break immediately upon arriving at work, at the start of the shift, so that the employee (usually a dealer) will not be allowed to have early out, that is leave early. First break is often given to a dealer who shows up a bit late for work.1

   first jack
1. (n)  Same as first ace, except with a jack being the significant card.1

   fish
1. (adj)  A poor player -- one who gives his money away. It's a well-known (though not well-followed) rule among good players to not upset the bad players, because they'll stop having fun and perhaps leave. Thus the phrase, "Don't tap on the aquarium." 2

2. (adj)  A bad player. A terrible player. A player who will tend to give away lots of money. Fish-ness can also be relative. Common poker wisdom holds that if you can't find the fish at your table, you're it. See also provider. I love playing at that fish pond. 3

3. (n)  live one. A very loose player, usually implying one who loses regularly.1

   fishhook
1. (n)  A nickname for a jack, more often heard in the plural. Damn these fishhooks, they keep getting me into trouble. 3

2. (n)  Jack (the card). Sometimes a 7. It comes from the literal resemblance of either a 7 or J to a fishhook. Also hook.1

   fishie
1. (n)  Affectionate RGPer term for a fish.1

   fishy
1. (n)  Like a fish, that is, live 1

   five aces
1. (n)  five of a kind.1

   five and dime
1. (n)  dimestore 1

2. (n)  A wild-card game with 10s and 5s wild.1

   five card draw
1. (adj)  Probably the most well known poker game, although it's not widely played in public cardrooms anymore. Each player receives five cards. There is a round of betting, after which each player may draw a certain number of cards (house rules often stipulate how many may be drawn and under what circumstances). Then there is a second round of betting, and (if necessary) a showdown. 3

2. (n)  draw poker 1

3. (n)  high draw poker, often called just draw.1

   five card option
1. (n)  little squeeze.1

   five card stud
1. (n)  A poker game, stud poker with one card dealt face down followed by four cards dealt face up, with betting commencing on the second card and continuing with each round of cards.1

   five minute rule
1. (n)  Similar to the two-minute rule.1

   five of a kind
1. (n)  The best hand in high draw poker played with the 53-card deck, four aces plus the joker. 1

2. (n)  In any wild-card game, some combination of cards all of the same rank plus one or more wild cards. For example, in deuces wild, three 7s and two 2s would be five of a kind, five 7s. Similarly, four deuces plus an 8 would constitute five 8s.1

   five way straight
1. (n)  In the 53-card deck, four cards to an inside straight, so that any of five cards makes it a straight. For example, 3-4-6-7 of mixed suits can be made into a straight by drawing any 5 or the joker, of which there are five altogether.1

   fix
1. (v)  stack the deck.1

   fixed deck
1. (v)  stacked deck.1

   fixed limit
1. (n)  Poker in which all bets are made in specified increments, that is, the size of each betting increment does not increase on any round of betting. See limit poker. Sometimes called flat limit. Compare also with single limit, double limit, and no limit.1

2. (n)  Sometimes this phrase refers to betting with maximums determined by the mutual consent of the players.1

   flash
1. (v)  Inadvertently expose one of your hole cards in a stud or community card game, or any of your cards in a draw game.1

2. (n)  The act of so doing. "I caught a flash of the joker in his hand."1

   flat
1. (adj)  Crooked. "This joint is as flat as a pancake." That is, it is full of thieves.1

2. (adj)  In lowball, taking no cards; often said by a house dealer when announcing the draws: "One, one, two, and flat."1

   flat call
1. (v)  Flat call is a way of saying call that emphasizes the fact that the player didn't raise. See also smooth call. When he flat called me on the flop and on the turn, I put him on the flush draw. 3

2. (v)  Only or just call a prior bet, that is, without raising. "He flat called" means that all he did was call (and implies that he should have raised).1

3. (n)  The action of flat calling. "That game was so tight, that when I raised before the draw I just got a flat call from a guy with a pat straight." Also, smooth call.1

   flat joint
1. (n)  flat shop.1

   flat limit
1. (n)  fixed limit.1

   flat shop
1. (n)  A crooked gaming establishment. Also bust-out joint. Opposite of right joint.1

   flat store
1. (n)  flat shop.1

   flatten
1. (n)  Turn a formerly honest cardroom into a flat shop.1

   flip
1. (n)  Mexican stud.1

   floor
1. (n)  see floorperson0

2. (n)  The premises around the tables, usually with reference to the employees working there; usually preceded by on the. "Who's on the floor?" means "Who's running the shift?"1

3. (n)  floorperson. "We need a decision. Call the floor."1

   floorman
1. (n)  The employee who seats players, brings new decks, keeps order, settles disputes, and sometimes sells chips to players.1

   floorperson
1. (n)  In a cardroom floorpeople are responsible for the moment to moment management of the cardroom - seating players, starting new tables, settling disputes, generally making sure the cardroom runs smoothly. You'll probably hear the "floorman" or "floor" more often. Floor, get some live ones in these empty seats! 3

2. (n)  A floorman of unspecified sex.1

   flop
1. (n)  The first three community cards, put out face up, all together.2

2. (n)  A number of games, such as hold'em and omaha, are played with five community cards. The first three of these cards are dealt all at once, and are called the flop. Games with a flop can be called flop games. To flop a hand is to make that hand on the flop. To "see" the flop is to still be in the hand when the flop comes. I missed my pre-flop raise, and lost the hand when the big blind made a gutshot on the river. I flopped a fourflush and made my hand on the turn. 3

3. (n)  In hold 'em-style games, the three community cards turned face up after the first round of betting.1

4. (v)  To turn those community cards up, especially with respect to how those cards affect a particular player. For example, if you start with a pair in the hole, and the flop includes one of your card, you are said to have flopped a set.1

   flop a set
1. (v)  See set.1

   flop game
1. (n)  Hold 'em-style game. That is, a game with a flop.1

   flush
1. (n)  A hand in which all five cards share the same suit. When comparing two flushes, the hand with the highest card not in common is better. So AK873 of hearts is a better flush than AK872 of diamonds. Not much better. 3

2. (n)  Five cards of the same suit, not in sequence. The hand ranks above a straight and below a full house. A flush is often specified by its top one or two cards. For example, A K 9 4 2 is called an ace-king flush. Five cards of the same suit in sequence constitutes a hand known as a straight flush. Also see double-ace flush. 1

3. (adj)  fat 1

   flushing
1. (v)  Drawing to a flush. "I knew you had a straight. I was flushing, but I missed."1

   fluss
1. (n)  flush 1

   flux
1. (n)  flush 1

   foamy cleanser
1. (n)  In hold 'em, A-J as one's down cards. Also (and from whose advertising slogan it comes), Ajax.1

   foil the cut
1. (v)  Perform a false cut.1

   fold
1. (v)  To abandon your hand, usually because someone else has made a larger bet than you are willing to call. Usually, one folds by mucking one's cards.3

2. (v)  Withdraw from further participation in the current pot.1

3. (n)  The act of folding.1

   fold equity
1. (n)  The extra value you get from a hand when you force an opponent to fold. That is, if you don't have to see a showdown, your hand has more value than if you do. 2

   fold out of turn
1. (v)  Fold before it is one's turn, an action that is not according to the rules in serious (that is, cardroom) games.1

   follow the queen
1. (n)  A wild-card stud game, played only in private or home games, in which all queens and those of the same rank as a card dealt face up immediately after a queen shows are wild.1

   follow the rabbit
1. (n)  See rabbit.1

   foot
1. (n)  Poor hand. "I got a hand like a foot."1

   football
1. (n)  A wild-card game with 6s and 3s wild. The game is similar to baseball.1

   force
1. (v)  raise.1

   force the cut
1. (v)   hit the brief.1

   forced bet
1. (n)  Just what it sounds like - a bet that one is forced to place, typically a blind bet or a bring-in. 3

2. (n)  A mandatory bet on the first round of play in a stud game. For example, in seven-card stud, the lowest card dealt on the first round might have to make a forced bet, usually of a smaller amount than the normal betting limit. In a $2-$4 game, the lowest card might have to bet 50 cents. Subsequent bettors may either call, or raise by $2 (sometimes only to $2, that is, a raise of $1.50). In most home games, the forced bet is made by the highest exposed card in high games, and by the lowest exposed card in low games. If two cards of the same rank appear, the one closest to the left of the dealer must make the forced bet. In cardrooms, bridge order (or reverse bridge order) is sometimes used.1

   forced blind
1. (n)  A mandatory, as opposed to optional, blind, that is, a bet that must be put into a pot before the cards are dealt, usually for the purpose of stimulating action. Traveling blinds (see traveling blind), winner blinds (see winner blind), and requiring players to blind at least once in a specified period of time or per round are examples of forced blinds.1

   forced move game
1. (n)  The second game of its type at a specific limit in a public cardroom that acts as a feeder to the main game, according to rules that vary from cardroom to cardroom. As seats become available in the main game, players in the forced-move game must move to the main game. The reason to have forced-move games is to make sure that the main game is always full, as opposed to the balanced-game (see balanced games) situation in which two tables might both have vacancies, and yet no one is permitted to change games. Also called must-move game.1

   forced raise
1. (n)  A mandatory, as opposed to optional, blind, which is put in to the left of a forced under-the-gun blind (see forced blind). Also see traveling blind.1

   forceful
1. (n)   4s full.1

   forest
1. (n)  Three 3s. (A bunch of trees.)1

   forward motion
1. (n)  See motion).1

   fossil
1. (n)  Elderly poker player, often implying one who is tight or a rock.1

   foul
1. (n)  A hand that may not be played for one reason or another. A player with a foul hand may not make any claim on any portion of the pot. Example: "He ended up with three cards after the flop, so the dealer declared his hand foul." 2

2. (n)  Unplayable because of some collision or conflict with the house rules. "If cards touch an unprotected hand, that hand is foul."1

3. (v)  To make a hand foul. "If you pick up the deck without discarding and then try to draw to your hand, you'll foul the hand."1

   foul hand
1. (n)  A hand that has become foul. In a draw game, six cards after the draw is usually considered a foul hand. Also dead hand, irregular hand. See dead1

   foundation
1. (n)  In five-card stud, the first card dealt to a player. In seven-card stud, the first two cards dealt to a player.1

   four card flush
1. (n)  Four cards to a flush. Sometimes called a bobtail flush or Arkansas flush.1

2. (n)  A nonstandard hand, four cards to a flush, that ranks higher than a four-card straight and lower than two pair.1

   four card rush
1. (n)  In lowball, having lots of one-card draws, but not making them.1

   four card straight
1. (n)  Four cards to a straight. Sometimes called a bobtail straight. Also see double-ended straight, open-ended straight, two-way hand, two-way straight.1

2. (n)  A nonstandard hand, four cards to a straight, that ranks higher than one pair and lower than a four-card flush.1

   four color deck
1. (n)  A deck in which each suit is given a different color, as opposed to the traditional decks in which hearts and diamonds are red and spades and clubs black. Many claim such a color scheme makes it harder to misread suits. In the four-color deck promoted by Mike Caro (the Mad Genius of Poker), spades are black, hearts are red, diamonds are blue, and clubs are green.1

   four flusher
1. (n)  A cheater. Probably comes from one who tries to bluff when holding only a four-flush, or who cheats by showing four cards to a flush and tries to claim the pot without showing the fifth.1

   four of a kind
1. (n)  A poker hand, four of the same rank, as four aces or four deuces. Ranks above a full house and below a straight flush. Also called quads.1

   four spot
1. (n)  A 4 (the card).1

   four way straight
1. (n)  In the 52-card deck, four to a straight, so that any of four cards makes it a straight. For example, 3-4-6-7 of mixed suits can be made into a straight by drawing any five, of which there are four altogether. Also called inside straight.1

   fourflush
1. (n)  A hand with four cards of the same suit. If there are no cards remaining to come (or to draw), a fourflush is not very useful. With top pair and a fourflush, I thought my raise was a good idea. 3

   fours
1. (n)  four of a kind.1

   fourth street
1. (n)  In seven-card stud, the fourth card dealt to each player. Following this card is the second round of betting.1

2. (n)  In hold 'em-type games, the fourth card of the flop. Following this card is the third round of betting. This card is more commonly called the turn card.1

3. (adj)  Pertaining to fourth street. He made a fourth-street bet.1

   freak
1. (n)  The joker or a wild card.1

   freak draw
1. (n)  An extremely lucky draw, usually greatly defying probability, and often in such a way as to defeat a hand that has considerably the best of it. If, in lowball, you draw three cards and make a 6 or better, that constitutes a freak draw. If, in draw poker, you draw three cards to two cards of the same suit and make a flush, that, too, constitutes a freak draw. Sometimes called Gardena miracle.1

   freak hand
1. (n)  A nonstandard poker hand, as a blaze, skip straight, big dog, little tiger, and so on.1

   free card
1. (n)  A turn or river card on which you don't have to call a bet because of play earlier in the hand (or because of your reputation with your opponents). For instance, if you are on the button and raise when you flop a flush draw, your opponents may check to you on the turn. If you make your flush on the turn, you can bet. If you don't get it on the turn, you can check as well, seeing the river card for "free."2

2. (n)  Whenever you get to see an additional card without having to call a bet, it's a free card (usually this means it's been checked around). Generally speaking, you'd like to get free cards when you need to improve, and you'd like to avoid giving free cards when you're ahead. 3

3. (n)  In stud poker or hold 'em, the situation in which there is no bet on a particular round, so players get extra cards without having had to risk additional money. In hold 'em, for example, you are on the button with A Q. The flop is 2 7 J, giving you four to the nut flush. An early player bets, and there are a few calls. You raise, and all call. No matter the turn card, the other players may check to you. If another spade doesn't come, you can check also, thus saving a bet at the higher limit, and allowing you to see the river card for "free."1

   free look
1. (n)  In draw poker or lowball, a player has looked at the first four of his cards, and the remaining one, which he presumably has not seen, is the free look. (I say "presumably" because some players seem to have a free look every hand, and yet they always look at the first four dealt them in order.) You might in lowball hear a player say, "I've got a free look, and I'm gonna raise it." That gives others the impression that the player has raised without seeing the fifth card, but hardly anyone ever believes that.1

   free peek
1. (n)  free look. "How come the free peek is always in the last position?"1

   free ride
1. (n)  In stud poker or hold 'em, a betting round in which no one bets, which permits the active players to receive (or see) a free card. By extension to draw, this would be the situation in a double-limit blind game with a gypsy (permitting players to open for a bet equal to the size of the blind) in which players opened for the minimum and the blind gets to draw without putting any extra money in the pot. 1

2. (n)  In pass-and-back-in draw poker, an opening round in which no one opens, thus allowing every player to draw without having to make a bet.1

   free roll
1. (n)  One player has a shot at winning an entire pot when he is currently tied with another player. For instance, suppose you have Ac-Qc and your opponent has Ad-Qh. The flop is Qs-5c-Tc. You are tied with your opponent right now, but are free rolling, because you can win the whole pot and your opponent can't. If no club comes, you split the pot with him; if it does come, you win the whole thing. 2

2. (n)  In hold 'em, the situation in which one player can win the entire pot when guaranteed half the pot because he is currently tied with another player. For example, you have A J and your opponent has A J. The flop is J 5 T. You are tied with the other player, each having a pair of jacks with the same kickers. You have a free roll (also, you are free rolling), since you can win the whole pot and he can't. If any card but a heart comes in the next two cards, you split the pot with the other player, but with any heart, you win the whole pot. 1

   free roll tournament
1. (n)  A tournament with no buy-in, usually with prize money put up by the house. Generally players must qualify to play in such a tournament by playing a specified number of hours during a set period of time, such as 10 hours in a week or 40 hours in a month. Sometimes entries to a free-roll tournament are also awarded to players holding certain hands, such as aces full or better, or the winners of preliminary tournaments, or to those who enter one or more other tournaments.1

   free rolling
1. (v)  See free roll 1

   freeroll
1. (n)  Freeroll tournaments are tournaments with no apparent entry fee or initial buy-in. Such tournaments are typically promotional events cardrooms host in order to attract players. Sometimes players must clock a certain number of hours in the cardroom in order to qualify, or meet some other requirement. 3

   freeze
1. (v)  stand pat in draw poker, that is, decline on the draw to replace any cards.1

   freeze out
1. (v)  Bet in such a way as to prevent another player getting into a pot. "They bet so much that they froze me out of the biggest pot of the night."1

2. (n)  A game in which players start with a specified amount and then can buy no further chips, with the game continuing until one player has all the chips. This is a common tournament structure. Also written freezeout.1

   freeze out tournament
1. (n)  A tournament in which players start with a specified amount and then can buy no further chips; once they lose their chips, they are out, as opposed to a rebuy tournament. The tournament continues until one player has all the chips. As players are eliminated, they may receive prizes based on the order of their elimination. For example, the final remaining player may win 50% of the prize pool, the next-to-last 25%, the third 10%, and so on. Also called no-rebuy tournament. Compare with shootout tournament.1

2. (n)   A tournament as described in definition 1 in which the last remaining player wins all the money1

   freezeout
1. (adj)  Any tournament format in which you cannot re-buy. A freezeout is a good format for heads-up pot-limit or no-limit play, since the amount at stake can be fixed in advance, and the competitors can use arbitrarily valued chips as in tournaments. We decided to play a series of no-limit hold'em freezeouts to show who was the better player. 3

   friendly game
1. (n)  A private or home poker game in which the social aspect is more important than winning money, usually accomplished by permitting only relatively small bets. This is opposed to a cutthroat game or a club or casino game. Sometimes called social game.1

   from here to Gilroy
1. (n)  San Jose to Gilroy.1

   from here to there
1. (n)  A straight sometimes shortened to here to there; itself shortened from from here to there without a pair.1

   front
1. (adv)  Ahead (of the game, that is, winning); always preceded by in. "How ya doin'?" "I'm in front." 1

2. (adv)  Being in a position such that you act after another player. If you are sitting to the left of a player, you might say, "I'm in front of him." 1

3. (n)  face 1

   front peek
1. (n)  A cheating maneuver that enables the dealer to see the face of the top card on the deck, accomplished by squeezing the deck between thumb and little finger in such a way as to bow the top card slightly so that its underside corner can be surreptitiously viewed. This move is made prior to dealing seconds.1

   full
1. (n)  full house. "I've got a full." 1

2. (adj)  Having a full house. "I've got a flush; whadda you have? "I'm full."1

   full bet
1. (n)  In a limit game, a bet as large as the current limit. For example, in a $10-$20 game, in the $10 round or rounds, $10 is a full bet, and anything less is not. Cardrooms have different interpretations as to whether anything less than a full bet can be raised or whether a player is even permitted to bet less, and if an all-in player bets less, whether succeeding players can call that amount or must themselves put in a full bet. 1

2. (n)  In a no-limit, pot-limit, or spread-limit game, a bet as large as the minimum for the table, with similar discussion as the preceding. 1

3. (n)  In a no-limit, pot-limit, or spread-limit game, a bet as large as the preceding bet. For example, if Emilie bets $50 and John can call only $30 of that, he would be said not to have a full bet. In this sense, the term short is often used. For definitions 1 and 2, also see half a bet, legal raise.1

   full boat
1. (n)  full house. Also called a boat.1

   full buy
1. (n)  A buy-in equivalent to at least the minimum requirement for the particular game. Compare with short buy.1

   full deck
1. (n)  An honest deck, that is, one containing all the cards. From this came the phrase playing with a full deck, which originally meant playing honestly, but was later expanded to mean rationally, and usually used in the negative as not playing with a full deck, that is, crazy or crazily.1

   full hand
1. (n)  full house.1

   full house
1. (n)  A hand consisting of three cards of one rank and two cards of another rank. AAA33 is aces full of threes, often abbreviated to "aces full." To fill up is to draw to and make a full house. Also called a boat. I figured even if my trip sevens were no good, there was a decent chance I'd fill up. 3

2. (n)  A poker hand, consisting of three of one rank plus two of another. Ranks above a flush and below four of a kind. Often identified by the three of a kind. Three kings and two 3s is a full house, often known as kings full, and sometimes more specifically as kings full of 3s.1

   full of
1. (adj)  Describing the constitution of the pair in a full house, as three kings and two threes could be called kings full of 3s.1

   full on
1. (adj)  Having a full house, with reference to the three of a kind, as three kings and any pair could be called full on kings.1

   full pack
1. (n)  full deck.1

   full table
1. (n)  A table whose every seat is occupied. The term is usually used only in cardrooms1

   full value
1. (n)  See value.1

   full wrap
1. (n)  In Omaha, a situation in which the four downcards consist of two sets of consecutive cards, two gaps, and two more consecutive cards, which combine with the flop such that any card in your hand duplicated on the board on the turn or river gives you a straight, in addition to any card one lower than your lower consecutive cards or one higher than the higher consecutive cards. For example, your downcards are 10-9-6-5, and the flop is 7-8-K. You can make a straight with any of 20 cards, any 10, 9, 6, or 5, three each of which remain, or any J or 4, of which four of each remain. Other wraps includewraparound and inside wrap.1

   fuzz
1. (v)  Perform a cheating maneuver in which the cards are mixed by an overhand shuffle (from hand to hand, instead of the standard cardroom procedure of riffling) in such a way as to maintain their original order.1

2. (v)   In draw poker, shuffle through one's five cards repeatedly by holding them face down and sliding one card at a time from top to bottom. Also called milk the cards.1

   fuzz the deck
1. (n)  Mix the cards by repeatedly drawing two simultaneously from top and bottom of the deck, sometimes done with a new deck prior to shuffling. 1



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The Official Dictionary of Poker
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Winning Low Limit Holdem
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Serious Poker
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Dan Kimberg
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