Glossary

This section is a work in progress.

Big Bet

When playing a limit game, the larger bet in the structure, that is, $8 in a 4/8 game.

Collectively, pot-limit and no-limit games, as compared to limit games.

Board

In a Stud game, the cards in a player’s hand that are face up.

In a community card game like Hold’em or Omaha, the shared community cards.

Community Card

A card shared by all players, separate from a player’s private cards. Compare “hole cards”, “board”.

Hole Cards

The cards in a player’s hand that are private, that is, face down. (In draw games, where all cards are private, this term is not used.)

HORSE

A common mixed game of Hold’em, Omaha/8, Razz, Stud, and Stud/8 (with the emphasis on the “E” in eight.)

Qualifier

A qualifier is a minimum hand in order to be valid. Most often, this is an “8 qualifier for low”, meaning if the low hand (by the rest of the definition for low) is worse than 8-7-6-5-4 (the worst possible 8), the hand can’t be played. This is frequent in high/low split games.

Run It Twice

When two players are all in and there are more board cards to come, deal out multiple boards and split the pot, once for each board. This helps reduce variance in these situations. The host poker room will have specific rules for this scenario.

Scoop

Win both ways in a split pot game.

In a run-it-twice situation, win both times.