An option to increase the stakes in limit games. Players may elect to play or not play overs; those who choose to play display some sort of token. If, at the beginning of a betting round after the first, only overs players remain in the hand, bets of twice the present limit are allowed. Most often used in home games as a compromise between aggressive and meek players.
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| quads | Four of a kind. | U |
| double through, double up | In a big bet game, to bet all of one's chips on one hand against a single opponent (who has an equal or larger stack) and win, thereby doubling your stack. I was losing a bit, but then I doubled through Sarah to put me in good shape. | U |
| center pot | The main pot in a table stakes game where one or more players are all in. | U |
| combo, combination game | A casino table at which multiple forms of poker are played in rotation. | U |
| wash | To mix the deck by spreading the cards face down on the table and mixing them up. A dealer may wash the deck before shuffling. | U |
| drawing dead | Playing a drawing hand that will lose even if successful (a state of affairs usually only discovered after the fact or in a tournament when two or more players are "all in" and they show their cards). I caught the jack to make my straight, but Rob had a full house all along, so I was drawing dead. | U |
| nuts, the | See nut hand. | U |
| advertising | To make an obvious play or expose cards in such a way as to deliberately convey an impression to your opponents about your style of play. For example, to make a bad play or bluff to give the impression that you bluff frequently (hoping opponents will then call your legitimate bets) or to show only good hands to give the impression that you rarely bluff (hoping opponents will then fold when you do). | U |
| deuce | A method of evaluating low hands. See Deuce-to-seven low. | U |
| low | See M-ratio. | U |