To enter the pot cheaply by just calling the blind rather than raising. Also "limp".
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| Holding Breath | Often, inexperienced players will hold their breath if they are bluffing. | W |
| chip up | To exchange lower-denomination chips for higher-denomination chips. In tournament play, the term means to remove all the small chips from play by rounding up any odd small chips to the nearest large denomination, rather than using a chip race. | U |
| idiot end | In flop games, a player drawing to, or even flopping, a straight with undercards to the flop has the idiot end of it. A player with 8-9 betting on a flop of A-T-J puts himself at great risk, because many of the cards that complete his straight give credible opponents higher ones. | U |
| busted | See button (poker). Also "buck" or "hat". | U |
| loose | See loose/tight play. Compare to "tight", "aggressive", "passive". | U |
| The Rocket Scientist | 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. | U |
| cap game | Similar to "cap" above, but used to describe a no-limit or pot limit game with a cap on the amount that a player can bet during the course of a hand. Once the cap is reached, all players remaining in the hand are considered all-in. For example, a no limit game could have a betting cap of 30 times the big blind.[1] | U |
| combo, combination game | A casino table at which multiple forms of poker are played in rotation. | U |
| strategy card | A wallet sized card that is commonly used to help with poker strategies in online and casino games. | U |
| active player | A player still involved in the pot. If there are side pots, an all-in player may be active in some pots, but not in others. | U |