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A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
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Pa Ferguson
- Five-card stud with high card on board and all cards like it as wild.
Pace - See Betting Pace, Game Pace, and Hand Pace.
Pack - The deck of cards.
Packet - A portion of the pack.
Paint - A face card in a lowball hand.
Pair - Two cards of the same value.
Palmed Card - A card concealed for future use by a cheater.
Pan or Panguingue - A form of rummy played in some Nevada
casinos and California poker clubs.
Paperwork - Markings added to cards by cheaters.
Partners - Collusion cheaters.
Pass - To check or drop out instead of betting.
Pass and Out - A game in which checking is not allowed on
the first round.
Pass the Deal - To relinquish one's turn to deal.
Pass the Trash (Garbage) - A high-low stud game involving
the exchanging of cards among players.
Pass-Out - To fold when a bet or a fold is required.
Passed Pot - When no one opens the pot.
Passive - A style of play that is characterized by reluctance to
bet and raise.
Pasteboard - A card.
Pat Hand - A hand in which the player keeps all his cards
without drawing or twisting new cards.
Patience Poker - See Crosscards.
Pay Off - To call a bet by a player you're pretty sure can
beat you.
Peek Poker - Seven-card stud.
Peeker or Peeper - (l) One who looks at an active player's
hand (2) A cheater who peeks at cards yet to be dealt.
Peep and Turn - See Mexican Stud.
Pelter (Bracket) - A five-card hand containing a two, five,
nine, and one card either a three or a four, and the other card either a six,
seven or eight (Skeet).
Penalties - See Bonus.
Penny Ante - A very low-stake game.
Penultimate Card - The next to the last card in the deck.
Percentage - (1) The house cut. (2) Probabilities expressed
as percentages.
Perdue - Cards turned down.
Perfect - You need perfect cards when you only have one way
to make a hand.
Perfect Low - An unbeatable lowball hand, such as ace, two,
three, four, five, or ace, two, three, four, six, or two, three, four, five,
seven depending on the game.
Philosopher - A cardsharp.
Pick Up Checks - To allow a player to bet or raise the limit
for every check made before his play.
Picture Card - A jack, queen, or king.
Pig in the Poke - See Wild Widow.
Pigeon - (1) An easy player or a sucker. (2) A valuable card
for a hand.
Pile - A player's money.
Pinch - Five dollars.
Pineapple Hold 'em - A hold 'em variation involving three
hole cards and discarding one.
Pink Eye (Red Eye) - A pink-tinted contact lens worn by a
cheater to identify marked cards or luminous readers. (See Luminous Readers)
Pips - The spots or marks on the face of a card.
Piranha - An aggressive bettor.
Pistol Stud - See Hole-Card Stud.
Place and Show Tickets Split Pot with Twist Your Neighbor
- A game in which cards are drawn from hands of other players and the pot
is split between the second and third best hands.
Place Tickets - (1) The second best hand. (2) Draw poker
in which the second best hand wins.
Play - To call or stay in
Play Back - To declare a false stake in table stakes.
Play Fast - Aggressively betting a drawing hand to get full
value for it if you make it.
Play the Board - You’re playing the board in flop games
if your best five card hand uses the five community cards.
Played Card - A card dealt to a hand.
Poch - The best pair, three of a kind, or four of a kind.
Pochen - A German card game from which the name poker was
partly derived.
Pocket - The two cards dealt to you face down in Hold’Em,
or the in seven-card stud.
Pocket Pair - Two pocket cards of the same rank.
Point - The value of a card.
Poker - A money-management game that uses cards for manipulation
and deception for winning.
Poker Diamond - A diagram that measures the idealness of
a game.
Poker Dice - Cubical dice, each with a nine, ten, jack, queen,
king, and ace on its six faces.
Poker Face - A face not showing any emotion or change in
expression.
Poker Rules - A loose, flexible framework of traditions for
playing poker.
Poker Solitaire - See Crosscards.
Pone - The player on the dealer's right.
Pool - A pot.
Poque - (1) A French card game from which the name of poker
was partly derived. (2) A French betting expression.
Position - The relative situation of a player to the other
players (Fundamental Position, Seat Position, Technical Position).
Position Bet - A bet made more on the strength of one's position
at the table than on the strength of one's hand.
Post - To post a bet is to place your chips in the pot.
Pot - The area in which antes, bets, and raises are placed.
Pot Limit - Poker stakes in which the maximum permitted bet
is the size of the pot.
Pot odds - The amount of money it will cost you to call a
bet according to ratio of the amount of money in the pot.
Pot-Limit Dig - Pot-Limit poker with no table-stake restrictions.
Pothooks - Nines.
Poverty Poker - A game in which a player can lose only a
predetermined amount, after which he can play with the winners' money.
Powerhouse - A very strong hand.
Premium - See Bonus.
Presto - A nickname for pocket 5's in Hold’Em.
Primero - An old, betting card game of Spanish origin.
Private Poker - Poker played without money being cut for
the house or for the host's profit.
Proctor and Gamble - A game with four cards in each hand
and three rolled table cards with the last card and all like it as wild.
Progression of Bets - The increase in betting limits for
each round of betting.
Progressive Poker - A game in which the ante, bets, and opener
requirements increase after a passed pot.
Prop - Short for a proposition player.
Proposition Player - A proposition player is a player who
is paid by a Cardroom to play poker.
Protect - To bet so as to reduce the changes of anyone outdrawing
you by the getting them to fold.
Provider - A provider (or Fish) is a poker player who makes
the game profitable for the other players at the table.
Public Poker - Poker played in gambling casinos or in public
card clubs in which the pots are cut for profit.
Pull Through - A false shuffling technique used by cheaters.
Punching - Marking cards with pinpricks.
Punters - Those who gamble against the banker.
Puppy Feet - Clubs.
Puppy Foot - The ace of clubs.
Push - Passing unwanted cards to players on one's left.
Pushka - An arrangement between two or more players to share
part of the pots they win.