In a lowball game, "giving air" is letting an opponent who might otherwise fold know that you intend to draw one or more cards to induce him to call.
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| catch up | To successfully complete a draw, thus defeating a player who previously had a better hand. I was sure I had Alice beat, but she caught up when that spade fell. | 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 |
| short buy | In no-limit poker, to buy in to a game for considerably less money than the stated maximum buyin, or less than other players at the table have in play. | U |
| spread-limit | A form of limit poker where the bets and raises can be between a minimum and maximum value. The spread may change between rounds. | U |
| river | See river (poker). | U |
| negative freeroll | See negative freeroll. | U |
| forced bet | See forced bets. | U |
| action | A marker similar to a kill button, on which a player places an extra forced bet. In a seven-card stud high-low game, the action button is awarded to the winner of a scoop pot above a certain size, signifying that in the next pot, that player will be required to post an amount representing a completion of the bring-in to a full bet. For example, in a stud game with $2 and $4 betting limits and a $1 bring-in, a player with the action button must post $2; after the cards are dealt, the player with the low card must still pay the $1 bring-in, then when the betting reaches the player who posted the $2, he is required to leave it in as a raise of the bring-in (and has the option to raise further). Players in between the bring-in and the action button can just call the bring-in, but they know ahead of time that they will be raised by the action button. | U |
| hand | See hand (poker). | U |
| side pot | A separate pot created to deal with the situation of one player going "all in". See table stakes. | U |