g1
gaff
2. (v) To use such a device or method. To gaff the
cards could mean to
mark them by any of several means.
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gallery
gamble
2. (v)
Play loosely. Be willing to
bet on situations with uncertain outcomes. Note: This word has special meaning among
poker players, and is different from the more generalized definition of the word as found in most dictionaries.
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gambler
1. (n)
One who takes chances in a
poker game, or
one who exhibits
gamble (definition 1). According to
Doyle Brunson, in his Super System, this term "... is often used to describe the
class (that is, the quality) of a
poker player. When the word is used this way it describes the highest
class of
player--which actually means that the
player is not really a gambler at all, but a highly skilled
player."
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game
2. (n) The specific form of
poker being played; sometimes the
size of
a game. "
Table 4 is a an
Omaha game." "This is a 6-12 game."
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game starter
game theory
1. (n) Betting or calling in a certain way when you don't know how an opponent plays so as to prevent the opponent from obtaining an
edge by his own betting or calling. Against an opponent whose
play you are familiar with, you
bluff more or less often depending on what you know of his calling habits. Against
one whose habits you don't know, though, you use game theory. For example, if
there are five bets in the
pot and you have a
hand that
can win only by bluffing, if you
can get away with a (
one-
bet)
bluff more than
one-fifth of the
time, you profit by this use of game theory. Or, against
one player, if,
on the end, you have a
hand that
can beat only a
bluff, you
figure the
player would
bluff in this situation 10% of the
time, and the
pot, including his
bet, offers 9-to-1 or better, you
call.
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gap
2. (n) Empty
seat. When a
table has
one or more empty seats, the
dealer or
one of the
seated players may try to entice a prospective participant this way: "Siddown.
There's a gap in the
trap for a sap."
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gap hand
gaper
gar hole
1. (n) A term that describes the situation in which chips are
locked up (definition 1). "You'll never get any of his chips; they're in a gar hole."
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garbage
garbage pile
Gardena miracle
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 have a
pat 6-4, and I
make the blind good (
see good, definition 1) and
draw three cards and
make a
wheel, you will be justified in accusing me of having been blessed with a Gardena miracle. In
draw poker, you
can draw three cards to
two cards of the same
suit and
make a
flush and also be considered to have made a Gardena miracle. Many players consider drawing
two and making a
straight flush or
even a
flush also to fall into the
class of Gardena miracle, but that is more correctly called a
cathop. Also,
freak draw. Named after the city of Gardena, in Southern California, which was once known as the
poker-playing capital of America (at the
time when only forms of
draw were legal in California).
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Gardena razz
Gardena style
1. (adj) Pertaining to double-
limit games; so called because these games originated in the Gardena area. Also
see double limit.
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gc
george
Georgia Hoop
1. (adv) Terrific. When someone says this, you know he's pleased about
something.
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Georgy
get a game down
get a hand cracked
1. (v) Have a
good hand beaten, usually by an opponent going against the
odds.
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get hit with the deck
1. (v) Be in a situation of making every
hand or having
good hands in crucial pots, particularly when
large pots are involved.
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Get it fixed
1. (v) "You lose." This is what an uncouth
player says about another
player's
hand when he spreads his own better
hand.
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get one's feet wet
1. (v) Get into a
pot, probably losing it.
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get out
1. (v)
fold "
Two raises to me? I'll get out."
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get smooth
get taken off
1. (v) Lose
one's money in
a game. Generally implies the situation in which an inferior
player who has been winning eventually loses
back all his money, and (usually) then some.
12. (v) Get cheated by thieves.
See take [someone]
off.
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get well
2. (v) Win after having been losing, particularly if the period of being
behind was lengthy.
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Gilroy
gin
girl
git go
1. (n) Start; usually preceded by from the. "He had four girls right from the git-go."
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give a card
give action
give air
give away
give someone a card
give someone action
glass work
1. (n) Use by a cheating
dealer of a mirror or other reflective device (such as a
shiner) to
read the faces of the
cards while they are being dealt
face down.
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glazed card
gleamer
glim worker
1. (n) A cheater who uses glass-
work.
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glimmer
glue
go
2. (v) Participate in a
pot. "A hundred more to me? I'll go."
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go all in
go both ways
go cow
go for it
go for the bottom
go hog
go in
1. (v)
Put money into a
pot, thereby remaining eligible to win the
pot.
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go light
go south
1. (v) Remove chips surreptitiously from the
table (so called because on a map that's the
direction they go), or
pocket winnings while playing. Also called
rathole.
12. (v)
Palm or otherwise surreptitiously remove
cards from the
deck for later introduction (by a
thief) at an opportune moment.
14. (v) Disappear. "I lent him $20 and he went
south with it."
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go the overs
go to the center
go uphill
god of lowball
god of poker
going home hand
going the overs
3. (n) Playing, among players who agree, at higher limits when those who are not part of the arrangement have dropped.
See discussion at
overs button.
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golden glow
golyoonies
1. (n) The
nuts; usually preceded by the.
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good
3. (adj) In
lowball,
smooth. "I've got a good eight" means the
hand is probably an 8-5 or 8-4.
14. (adj) Describing a, or the,
winning hand, often said by the
loser of a
pot with respect to the
hand that has beaten him, before he has shown his own
hand. Saying "That's good" essentially surrenders the
pot.
See Good
hand.
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good game
1. (n)
One in which you expect to win a lot of money, presumably because the
game is
full of worse players than you.
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Goolsby
gorillas
grand
grand jury
graveyard
graveyard shift
gravy
2. (n) The amount by which a
player is
ahead, usually implying that he is in a lot and was
stuck until fairly recently. "
Boy, you're winning a lot!
Look at all those chips--must be
over a
grand." "Uh huh. I'm in a thousand.
There's $1040 here, so $40 is gravy."
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grec
greek
greek bottom
greekery
1. (n) A general term for cheating or thievery.
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green
1. (n) Green is the most common color for $25 chips. If someone bets a
stack of green, it means they're betting a bunch of $25 chips, probably 20 of them.
See also
white,
red, and
black.
32. (n)
felt; usually preceded by the. The cloth surface covering a
card table. He went to the green means he
bet all his chips.
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green chip
grift
1. (v) To
cheat, usually involving stealing small amounts of money.
13. (n) A cheating scheme used by a
cheat.
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grifter
1. (n) A swindler or cheater, generally
one who steals small amounts of money on an irregular basis. Also called
grift.
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grind
1. (v)
grind out. "Been playing
big lately?" "Nah, just grinding."
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grind out
1. (v) Win gradually, but consistently The implication here is that this is done by someone in
a game smaller than he is used to and by playing tighter than he usually does. Also said disparagingly of a
conservative, winning
player who never wins
big, but also never gets caught gambling (
see gamble).
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grinder
group n hand
1. (n) In
hold 'em, a ranking of starting hands, according to a chart originally developed by
David Sklansky. Group 1 hands include aces, kings, queens,
ace-
king suited, and so on.
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gut
gut shot
gut straight
guts
guts to open
gutshot
gutshot straight
1. (n) A
straight filled "
inside." If you have 9s-8s, the
flop comes 7c-5h-2d, and the
turn is the 6c, you've made your gutshot straight.
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gutter
gypsy
gypsying in
1. (v) In the smaller double-
limit games, usually
up to 15-30, a
pot can be opened for the minimum
bet. For example, in the 2-4
game, the
dealer puts a
dollar chip in the
pot before the
cards have been dealt, the
player to the left of the
dealer also puts in a
dollar chip before the
cards have been dealt, and the
player two positions to the left of the
dealer puts in
two dollar chips. After the
cards have been dealt, the players
look at their
cards. Starting
three positions to the left of the
dealer, each
player makes a
decision in turn whether to
play the
pot. If a
player does not want to
play, the
player discards his or her
cards, and has no further interest in this
pot. The first
player to
put money into the
pot after having seen his or her
cards is said to
open the
pot, or, simply, to
open. That
player has
two choices on the
opening bet. He or she
can open for $2, that is, the
size of the
big blind. Or he or she
can open for $4, which is called coming
in for a
raise (
see come in for a raise). Opening for the minimum permitted is called gypsying in. If a
player opens for $2, any succeeding
player can fold,
call the $2
bet, or
raise it to $4. Similarly, if a
player opens for $4, any succeeding
player can fold,
call the $4
bet, or
raise it to $6. After the first
raise, further raises proceed in $2 increments. If the
pot is opened for the minimum, and no
one raises, when the betting gets to the
dealer or
middle blind, either
can call for just $1. And, when the betting gets to the
big blind, the
big blind can stop the betting, or
raise it. This kind of
blind is called a
live blind. When the
big blind elects not to
raise a minimum
opening bet, the
player usually signifies by tapping his or her
cards on the
table, or saying
something like, "
Deal 'em," signifying that it's
time to
draw cards, because the first-
round betting
action is
over. In another example, in the 15-30
game, the
dealer blind is $5, the
middle blind is $10, and the
big blind is $15. As in the previous example, the first
player to
put money into the
pot after having seen his or her
cards has
two choices on the
opening bet. He or she
can open for $15, that is, the
size of the
big blind. This is gypsying in. Or he or she
can open for $30, that is,
come in for a raise. As in the smaller
game, if a
player opens for $15, any succeeding
player can fold,
call the $15
bet, or
raise it to $30. Similarly, if a
player opens for $30, any succeeding
player can fold,
call the $30
bet, or
raise it to $45. After the first
raise, further raises proceed in $15 increments. If the
pot is opened for the minimum, and no
one raises, when the betting gets to the
dealer, that
player can call for $10, while the
middle blind can call for $5. (Of course, either has the
option of folding, or raising.) And, when the betting gets to the
big blind, the
big blind can stop the betting, or
raise it. Games in which gypsying in is not permitted are called
no gypsy. Also
see option 1