A-B : C-C : D-E : F-H : I-N : O-P : Q-S : S-T : T-W
Implied OddsPot odds that do not exist at the moment, but may be included in your calculations because of bets you expect to win if you hit your hand. For instance, you might call with a flush draw on the turn even though the pot isn’t offering you quite 4:1 odds (your chance of making the flush) because you’re sure you can win a bet from your opponent on the river if you make your flush.
Jackpot
A special bonus paid to the loser of a hand if he gets a very good hand beaten. In hold’em, the "loser" must typically get aces full or better beaten. In some of the large southern California card clubs, the jackpots have gotten over $50,000. Of course, the jackpot is funded with money removed from the game as part of the rake.
Kansas City Lowball
A form of draw poker low also known as deuce-to-seven, in which the best hand is 7-5-4-3-2 and straights and flushes count against you.
Kicker
The highest unpaired card that helps determine the value of a five-card poker hand.
Kill (or Kill Blind)
An oversize blind, usually twice the size of the big blind and doubling the limit. Sometimes a "half-kill" increasing the blind and limits by fifty percent is used. A kill can be either voluntary or mandatory. The most common requirements of a mandatory kill are for winning two pots in a row at lowball and other games, or for scooping a pot in high-low split.
Kill Button
A button used in a lowball game to indicate a player who has won two pots in a row and is required to kill the pot.
Kill Pot
A pot with a forced kill by the winner of the two previous pots, or the winner of an entire pot of sufficient size in a high-low split game. (Some pots can be voluntarily killed.)
Leg Up
Being in a situation equivalent to having won the previous pot, and thus liable to have to kill the following pot if you win the current pot.
Live Blind
A blind bet giving a player the option of raising if no one else has raised.
Lock-Up
A chip marker that holds a seat for a player.
Lowball
A draw game where the lowest hand wins.
Lowcard
The lowest faceup card at seven-card stud, which is required to bet.
Maniac
A player who does a lot of hyper-aggressive raising, betting, and bluffing. A true maniac is not a good player, but is simply doing a lot of gambling. However, a player who occasionally acts like a maniac and confuses his opponents is quite dangerous.
Misdeal
An error on the dealing of a hand which causes the cards to be reshuffled and a new hand to be dealt.
Missed Blind
A required bet that is not posted when it is your turn to do so.
Muck
(1) The pile of discards gathered facedown in the center of the table by the dealer. (2) To discard.
Must-Move
In order to protect the main game, a situation where the players of a second game must move into the first game as openings occur.
No-Limit
A betting structure where players are permitted to bet any or all of their chips in one bet.
Nuts
The best possible hand given the board. If the board is Ks-Jd-Ts-4s-2h, then As-Xs is the nuts. You will occasionally hear the term applied to the best possible hand of a certain category, even though it isn’t the overall nuts. For the above example, somebody with Ah-Qc in the above hand might say they had the "nut straight".