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Face Card - Any picture card.

Faced - (1) A face-up card. (2) To receive a face card.

Fall of the Cards - The order in which cards are dealt.

False Cut - A cheater's cut in which the stacked portion of the deck remains intact on top of the deck.

False Openers - A hand that has been opened improperly.

False Riffle - A cheater's riffle used to keep stacked cards undisturbed after riffling.

False Shuffle - See Blind Shuffle.

Family Pot - A pot in which everyone calls the bet.

Farm System - Several poker games at different stakes under control of a good player.

Fast Game - A game with a fast betting pace.

Fatten - To increase the money in the pot (Sweeten).

Favorite - The hand that is expected to win most often.

Feeble Phoebe - Like Hollywood, except table cards are turned over two at a time and played for high and low.

Feed the Pot - To bet or raise foolishly.

Feeler Bet - A small or nominal bet made to seek out strength or raising tendencies of opponents.

Felt - The surface of most poker tables.

Fever - A five.

Filling - Drawing and then catching a full house, flush, or straight.

Fin - Five dollars.

Finger Poker - A game run on credit.

Finn Poker - To play poker with the objective of winning maximum money.

First Hand - The first player allowed to bet a hand.

First Jack Deals - A method to determine who has the first deal.

Fish - An easy or a poor player.

Fish Hook - A seven or a jack.

Five and Dime - A hand containing a five and a ten with three unpaired cards in between.

Five Card Draw - Probably the world’s most well-known poker game.

Five of a Kind - Five cards of the same value.

Five-Card Stud - Stud poker played with one hole card and four exposed cards.

Fix - To prearrange the cards or stack the deck.

Fixed Limit - Betting with agreed-upon limits or maximums.

Flash - (1) To expose concealed cards (2) To turn up a common card for everyone's use when insufficient cards are available to complete a stud game. (3) Five cards, one of each suit plus the joker.

Flat Call - A way of calling that emphasizes the fact that the player didn't raise.

Flat Limit - A game in which only one consistent amount is allowed for all bets and raises.

Flat Poker - Poker with a blind open.

Flicker Flicker - Five-card, high-low stud.

Flinger - A wild or crazy player.

Flip Stud - Five-card stud in which the optional hole card and matching hole cards are wild.

Floorman - (1) A cardroom manager. (2) Shift boss in a casino.

Flop - The first three exposed cards in hold 'em poker.

Flush - Five cards of the same suit.

Fluss (Flux) - A flush.

Foiling the Cut - A cheater's method of returning cards to their original position after a cut.

Fold - To drop out of a hand by not calling the bet or raise (Drop).

Football - A stud game similar to baseball involving sixes and threes as wild cards.

Force-in - A mandatory blind bet, usually with an option to raise.

Foul Hand - A hand containing the wrong number of cards.

Four Flush - Four cards of the same suit.

Four Forty Four - Eight-card stud with fours wild.

Four of a Kind - Four cards of the same value (Fours).

Four-Flusher - (1) A cheater. (2) One who tries to win pots by purposely miscalling his hand.

Fourth Street - In flop games, the fourth card on board and the third round of betting, the turn; in Seven-Card Stud, the fourth card dealt to each player and the second round of betting (on the second upcard).

Fox - an expert player.

Freak - A joker or a wild card.

Freak Hands - Nonstandard poker hands such as Blazers, Dutch Straights, Kilters, and Skeets.

Free Card - It’s a free card whenever you get to see an additional card without having to call a bet.

Free Ride - Playing without paying.

Free Roll - A lock on half the pot with a chance to win the whole pot.

Free Wheeler - A bankrupt player allowed to play free until he wins a pot.

Freeze Out - A rule requiring player to leave the game after losing a certain amount of cash.

Freezer - A call for less than the amount of the bet in table stakes (Short Call).

Friend - A card that improves a hand.

Full House, Full Barn, or Full Tub - Three of a kind with another pair (Full Hand).

Fundamental Position - The value of a player's hand relative to the other player's hands.

Fuzzing - Mixing the cards by continuously stripping off the top and bottom cards (Milking, Snowing Cards).

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