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A Priori Odds - The probability that an event will occur.

A-C Player
- The Advanced Concept Player.

A-game - The highest stake game in the house.

Ace-High - A five-card hand containing an ace but no pair; beats a king-high, but loses to any pair or above.

Ace To Five - In a low game .The ace to five means straights and flushes don't count and the ace can be used as a low card.

Aces Full - A full house with aces over any pair.

Aces Up
- A pair of aces with one other pair.

Act
- To check, call, fold, open bet, and raise when it's your turn.

Action - The betting.

Action Spot - The table area where the betting is occurring.

Active Player - A player competing for a pot.

Add-on - When a tournaments allows players to purchase additional chips.

Add-them-up Lowball - Draw poker where the hand with the lowest point total wins.

Advanced Concepts of Poker - The concepts used by the good poker player to win maximum money from opponents.

Advanced-Concept Player - A player whose style is based on the Advanced Concepts of Poker. (A-C Player).

Advertise - To have a bluff called in order to encourage opponents to call later.

Age - First position to the left of the dealer (A, Able, or Edge).

Agent
- A confederate or collusion partner in cheating.

Aggressive - A playing style characterized by frequent raising and re-raising.

Alien Card - A card not belonging to the deck in play.

Alive Card - See Live Card.

All Blue, or All Pink
- A flush.

All the Way - Cincinnati with a progressive bet.

All-In - The betting by a player of all his money on the table.

Alternate Straight
- A sequence of every other card, such as two, four, six, eight, ten (Dutch Straight, Skipper, Skip Straight).

Ambique - A French card game that influenced the draw variation of poker.

American Brag - A game where the raiser shows the first caller his hand and the worst hand folds.

An Ace Working - An ace in hand.

Anaconda - A seven-card game with bets made on five rolled-up cards.

Angle - Any technically legal but ethically dubious way to increase your expectation at a game; a trick.

Announce
- To declare high, low, or the moon in high-low poker.

Announced Bet - A verbal bet made by a player before putting his money in the pot.

Ante - Money put in the pot before dealing.

Arkansas Flush
- A four flush.

Around the Comer Straight - A sequence running from the highest to the lowest values, such as queen, king, ace, two, three.

Assigned Bettor - The player who bets first.

Australian Poker - Draw poker with a blind opening.

Automatic Bluff
- A lowball situation that almost always requires a bluff.

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