Any player who sees fit to lecture about how to play, and then is blatantly wrong, is a short term target. These players almost never last very long, are often first-timers and are seldom exploitable over time.
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| rack | 1. A collection of 100 chips of the same denomination, usually arranged in 5 stacks in a plastic tray. | U |
| cutoff | The seat immediately to the right of the dealer button. In home games where the player on the button actually shuffles and deals the cards, the player in the cutoff seat cuts the deck (hence the name). | U |
| cold call | To call an amount that represents a sum of bets or raises by more than one player. Alice opened for $10, Bob raised another $20, and Carol cold called the $30. Compare to "flat call", "overcall". | U |
| overcard | In community card games such as Texas hold 'em and Omaha hold 'em, a pocket pair with a higher rank than any community card. | U |
| wild card | See wild card (poker). Compare to bug (poker). | U |
| button | See button (poker). Also "buck" or "hat". | U |
| suited connectors | See suited connectors. | U |
| hand | See hand (poker). | U |
| Chip Stacking | When you first sit down at a table, study the way the players stack their chips. Although it is a generalization, loose aggressive players typically maintain unorganized/sloppy stacks, while tight conservative players keep well organized/neat stacks. | U |
| in turn | A player, or an action, is said to be in turn if that player is expected to act next under the rules. Jerry said "check" while he was in turn, so he's not allowed to raise. | U |