In games such as Texas hold 'em, where 5 community cards are dealt, if your best hand is on the board and you go to the showdown you are said to "play the board".
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| family pot | A deal in which every (or almost every) seated player called the first opening bet. | 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 |
| redraw | To represent a hand is to play as if you hold it (whether you actually hold it or are bluffing). | U |
| upcard | See upcard. | U |
| broadway | A 10 through ace straight. | U |
| brick | A "blank", though more often used in the derogatory sense of a card that is undesirable rather than merely inconsequential, such as a card of high rank or one that makes a pair in a low-hand game. Also known as a bomb. Compare to "rags". | U |
| full, full boat, full hand, full house | A hand with three cards of one rank and two of a second rank. Also "boat", "tight". See rank of hands (poker). | U |
| vig, vigorish | The rake. See vigorish. | U |
| three pair | In a seven card game, such as seven-card stud or Texas hold 'em, it is possible for a player to have 3 pairs, although a player can only play two of them as part of a standard 5-card poker hand. This situation may jokingly be referred to as a player having a hand of three pair. Note that in Omaha hold 'em, it is possible to "have" 4 pair in the same manner. | U |
| soft-play | To intentionally go easy on a player (e.g. not betting or raising against him when you usually would). | U |