jack
Jack Benny
jack high
jack it
jack it up
Jack Jackson
jack stripper
jack up
jackal
jackpot
2. (n) A number of cardrooms offer sizeable
jackpots for particularly
bad beats. The rules vary somewhat, but typically you must have
aces full or better
beat (sometimes by
quads or better). If the
game is hold'em, often both players must use both of their
pocket cards. Other rules and technicalities
make it worthwhile finding
out just what could invalidate a jackpot before you
play your first
hand. Typically the "
loser" gets the lion's share (e.g., 50%), the
winner of the
hand the next largest share (e.g., 25%), and often the remainder of the
table splits the rest of the jackpot.
Poker jackpots are occasionally outlawed or reinstated in various locations.
Check your
local listings.
33. (n) A
progressive prize in some cardrooms given to the
player who gets, in
lowball, a 6-4
beat, or, in
high, a given
hand, perhaps
aces full, or
four of a kind,
beat. The procedure for
collection of the prize fund differs in each
cardroom. In some, part of the antes or blinds, called the
jackpot drop is taken each
hand and added to the jackpot fund. The procedure for awarding the jackpot also varies widely. In some
clubs, the fund is for all games; in others, it is for a specific
game. That is, for example, the 2-4
hold 'em may have
one jackpot, while the 3-6 and 5-10 each has its own separate jackpot. The usual procedure is the holder of the beaten
hand receives the largest share of the jackpot; the holder of the
hand that beats the
loser receives a smaller
percentage; while the remainder of the players
split a third portion. The division might be 50% of the jackpot to the
loser, 25% to the holder of the
winning hand, and 25%
split to the other players at the
table. Other divisions are found, also. In some
large clubs, the
jackpots frequently grow into the tens of thousands of dollars, leading to the interesting phenomenon of players specifically trying to get their hands
beat, and often staying
in for several bets on hands they might not otherwise
play. The rules for
collection and disbursement of
jackpots changed in California in 1998, but the effect remains about the same. Also called
bad beat jackpot.
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jackpot drop
jackpot poker
jackpots
jacks back
jacks full
jacks or better
jacks over
jacks to open
jacks trips
jacks up
1. (n)
two pair, the higher of which are jacks.
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Jackson
Jacksonville
Jacksonville, Florida
jake
jam
2. (v) To
bet or
raise the maximum, especially in no-
limit, is to jam.
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jam up
2. (adv) Specifically as drawn to, with reference to a
drawing hand. "I made the six jam up" means that a
player, in
lowball, was drawing to a 6-
high hand and caught the
perfect card. If, for example, his
cards before the
draw were 6-5-3-A, he caught either a 2 or a 4, and, probably, specifically a 2.
13. (adv) A way of playing: very
good, or very
tight. "He's playing
jam-up and jelly-
tight."
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jaybird
jayboy
Jerusalem
1. (n) The
nuts. "Get in a
pot with him and he'll
show you Jerusalem." More commonly called the
Holy City.
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Jesse
Jesse James
1. (n) A
pot stealer; a bluffer.
12. (n) In
hold 'em, a 4 and a 5 as the downcards, because legend has it the famous outlaw was
shot with a .45.
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Jimmy Hix
jitney
1. (n) $5 or a $5
chip. Comes from the five cents that used to be the fare on a jitney bus.
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Joe Bernstein
Joe Goz
1. (n) The
shift manager; the boss. "Who's the Joe Goz around here?"
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jog
jog cut
1. (v) A
cut made to a
brief by a cheater, such that a desired clump of
cards ends up at a specified location of the
deck, usually right at the
top or at the
bottom.
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john
2. (n) Easy prey for a
thief; ignorant or naive
player. From the slang term for a prostitute's customer.
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Johnny
Johnny Moss
joint
joker
1. (n) A joker is an additional
card in the
deck that is used in some games. The jokers isn't often used in
serious poker, but when it is it's usually considered a
wild card.
See also
bug.
33. (n) In
home games, the joker is often completely
wild, that is, it
can represent any
card. Thus, in addition to making an extra
ace or filling any
straight or
flush, it also
can make a
pair with any single
card,
three of a kind with any
pair, a
full house with any
two pair,
four of a kind with any
triplets, or
five of a kind (a
hand that ranks higher than any
straight flush) with any
four of a kind. Sometimes
two jokers are used in
home games, producing a 54-
card deck.
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joker poker
joker problems
joker trouble
1. (n) In
lowball, drawing more than
one card because
one has the
joker; usually used as an excuse to justify what others might otherwise criticize as a
bad play. "Gimme
two. I've got joker trouble."
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joker wild
jokers wild
joy girl
Judge Bean
1. (n)
Three 10s, probably referring to 30
days,
one of the many sentences the frontier judge was famous for handing
out.
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Judge Duffy
1. (n)
Three 10s, probably referring to "30
days or $30," a common sentence handed
down for pleading guilty in the 1930s and 40s to illegal gambling, by this (probably) generic judge.
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Judith
juice
juice joint
jump
1. (n) Liveliness;
gamble (definition 1). "I like his
action. He's got a lot of jump."
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jump the cut
jump the fence