POKER TERMS: H – N
Hack: Someone who sucks at poker but still seems to win.
Heads Up: Two players playing against one another. This happens when a tournament reaches the final two players or when the format is specifically one player versus another.
Hole Cards: The two starting cards players are dealt in the beginning of the hand.
House: The venue running the game.
Halved: When a pot is split in half because players hold the same winning hand.
Hammer: A starting hand of Deuce/Seven off-suit.
Implied Odds: A way of calculating the approximate value for a player to call a hand.
Insta-credits: A term for online players that bleed buy-ins.
Jam: To be aggressive during a pot in order to put an opposing player to a decision.
Jammer: A well-meaning sollipsist dilettante
Kicker: A card used in a hand that decides the higher ranking between two or more hands i.e. two pair with an Ace kicker.
Leak: A fundamental problem with a player’s strategy.
Limp In: To call action in a hand without raising the stakes.
Live Action: Cash games at a land-based venue or online.
Luckbox: Someone who continually sucks out on opponents repeatedly.
Lock: To have the highest possible winning hand.
Manic: A highly aggressive player that is willing to ship their stack on a marginal hand.
Made Hand: When you land a hand that can’t improve during play, i.e. four of a kind, a straight or a flopped full house.
Micro Limits: Small limits played in online poker.
Money Bubble: When a tournament reaches one player away from making the money. Once this player busts, everyone left will receive a payout.
Muck: To fold your cards. Also used to refer to the burn cards and the cards collected at the end of a hand.
Master Blaster: An online player that is well-known for their aggressive tendencies.
No Limit: A style of poker where there is no limit to the amount of money (limited to the cash or chips in play) that can be bet during a hand.
Nuts: The best possible hand.
No Dice: When the turn and river blank, failing to improve your hand.
