When a player looks down and sees strong hole or pocket cards, she may glance over at her chips to see just how much she can bet.
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| home game | A game played at a private venue (usually the home of one of the players), as opposed to a casino or public cardroom. | U |
| split two pair | In community card poker, a two pair hand, with each pair made of one of your hole cards, and one community card. | U |
| early position | See position (poker). | U |
| five of a kind | A hand possible only in games with wild cards, or a game with more than one deck, defeating all other hands, comprising five cards of equal rank. | U |
| angle | A technically legal, but borderline unethical, play. For example, deliberately miscalling one's own hand to induce a fold, or placing odd amounts of chips in the pot to confuse opponents about whether you mean to call or raise. A player employing such tactics is called an "angle shooter". | U |
| dark | Describing an action taken before receiving information to which the player would normally be entitled. I'm drawing three, and I check in the dark. Compare to "blind". | U |
| satellite | A tournament in which the prize is a free entrance to another (larger) tournament. | U |
| busted | See button (poker). Also "buck" or "hat". | U |
| blind stud | A stud poker game in which all cards are dealt face down. Was popular in California before legal rulings made traditional stud legal there. | U |
| micro-limit | Internet poker games with stakes so small that real cardrooms couldn't possibly profit from them, are said to be at the "micro-limit" level (e.g. 25¢-50¢). | U |