There are several terms that are used in the game of poker to which you not are familiar with. The following terms should help you to speak poker as well as you play it.
Action: This term means betting within a poker. You are starting the action, if you bet first. Lot of action in the game describes lot of betting in the game.
All-In: All the chips you have on the table, you place them into the pot.
Back Door: Two cards are needed for a draw to complete a straight, flush, or full house.
Bankroll: The money available with you to play the game over a particular duration
Best of It: To be a favorite to win.
Bet: To bet means to place money into the pot.
Blind: Blind is the Forced bet that must be made before the cards are dealt.
Bluff: When any player bet with an inferior hand in the hope that his opponents will fold or drop out.
Board: Community cards.
Bottom Pair: When you have a pair that contains the lowest card on the board.
Button: A token that represents the dealer position.
Call: When the player place a bet which is equal to a previous opponent’s bet.
Check: when it is your turn to act you decline not to bet.
Check-Raise: To check and then raise if an opponent bets.
Community Cards: The term used for the cards that are placed in the middle of the table and shared by all players.
Expected Value (EV): when betting in the same circumstances numerous times, the average amount that you will win.
Favorite: the best chance to win.
Flop: The first three community cards in Texas Hold’em and Omaha.
Hand: Hand is the term which may be used to refer one game of poker in which the pot is won or the cards in a player’s hand. Understand it in its context so you won’t be confused.
Heads-Up: When you play against a single opponent.
Hole Cards: The first cards dealt to any player that opponents cannot see.
Limit: The set sum of amount or amounts that may be bet, often expressed as 5/10 ($5 bets on the first two rounds and $10 bets thereafter).
Loose: When any player plays more hands than should be played.
Middle Pair: Pair containing the second highest card on the board.
Muck: When any player discards a hand.
Outs: Cards if come that will improve your hand.
Pair: Two cards that are the same rank (such as two kings).
Position: Your place of action in betting. If you are acting first, you are in first position.
Pot: All amount of money that has been bet in a hand.
Pot Odds: It is the mathematical computation of the odds of your chances of hand improving, the sum of money in the pot, and the size of the bet you must call.
Quads: Four of a kind (such as four aces).
Raise: When any player places a bet larger than an opponent has already placed.
Rake: The Sum of amount a card room receives from each pot, usually a percentage that has a set upper limit.
Reraise: When the player raise after an opponent has raised.
Semi bluff: To bet with a hand that may improve the chance to have the best bet and the bet in the hand is not the best bet.
Set: Three of a kind (such as three jacks).
Short Stacked: smallest stack of chips at the table.
Steal: when you don’t have the best hand, you force an opponent to fold.
Suited: Cards of the same kind of suit (such as 4 and 7).
Tell: An action that a player makes that gives away the strength of their hand.
Tight: When any player plays fewer hands than normal.
Tilt: emotionally upset player and starts making poor decisions.
Trips: Three of a kind (such as three queens).
Under the Gun: The first player who must act on the first round of betting.