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Table: See Board. Table Cards: Cards turned face-up on the tablefor use in everyone’s hand, such as in Cincinnati. Table Stakes: A rule that a player may not gointo his pocket for money during a hand. He may only invest the amount of money in front of him into the pot. If he runs outof chips during the hand, a side potis created in which he has no interest. All casino pokeris played with tablestakes. The definition sometimes also includes the rule that a player may not remove chips from the tableduring a game. While this rule might not be referred to as tablestakes, it is enforced almost universally in public pokergames. Take It or Leave It: See Shove Them Along. Take Out: The number of chips a player starts with in tablestakes. Take the Lead: To makea bet or raise. Talon: The remainder of cards in a deckafter the deal. Tap: To bet all one’s money in tablestakes. Tap City: A player going broke in a game. Tap Out: To bet and lose all one’s cash, forcing one to leave the game. Tap You: (1) An expression for a player betting an amount equal to all the money his opponent has on the tablein tablestakes. (2) A raise. Tapioca: To be outof money. Technical Position: The strategic and psychological advantage of a player relative to other players. Telephone Booth: A very looseplayer. Also see Calling Station. Tell Play: Generally referred to as “tells”, this refers to the specific quirks or readable aspects of a players actions, verbal behavior, or body language, that reveal information about what cards they are holding. Ten Ten: High-Low Five-Card Studwith ten for low and a pairof tens for high as qualifiers. Usually played with two twists. See Twist. Tennessee: Draw pokerin which a bet is made after each roundof cards is dealt. Tennessee Hold Me: See Texas Hold ‘em. Tens High: Poker in which no handhigher than a pairof tens can win. Texas Hold’em: Often shortened to just Hold’em, this game is widely considered the grandfather of poker. A flopgame, in Texas Hold’emeach player gets two pocket cards, while five community cardsare dealt face-up on the table. The strength of a player’s handis the best five-card handthat can be made with these seven cards. There are four rounds of betting: after the pocket cards are dealt, after the first three community cards(the flop), after the fourth card (the turncard) , and after the fifth and final card (the rivercard). Texas Special or Texas Tech: See Double-Barreled Shotgun. The Diamond: A appraisal of the idealness of a pokergame for a good player. Third Street: In Seven-Card Stud, the first roundof betting is called “third street” because the players have three cards. Thirty Days or Thirty Miles: Three tens. Thirty Three: Six-Card Studwith threes wild. Three-Card Monte: A three-card game similar to Bragg. Three-of-a-kind: Three cards of the same value. This is also known as Treys, Triplets, and Trips. Three-Toed Pete: Three-card poker. Throat Shot: An expression used to describe a player who is barely losing a big pot. Throw Off: (1) To discard. (2) To playdeceptively and confuse your opponents. Throw Up a Hand: To fold. Ticket: A card. Tie: Two hands of equal value. The potis usually divided between tied winning hands. Tierce: A three-card straightflush. Tiger: A low handfrom the two to the seven. Tight Player: Conservative: not playing many hands. Tilt: Playing very poorly or wildly, usually after losing badly or winning big. Time: (1) A request for “time, please!” made by a player in order to suspend play while he decides what he is going to do. If a player does not request time, and there is a substantial amount of action behind him, the dealer may rule that the player has folded. (2) An amount of money collected either on the button or every half hour by the cardroom. This is another way for the house to make its money. See Rake. Time Game: A game in which players are charged a specified amount of money each hour or half hour for playing privileges by the house, club, or casino. Tine Cut: Money charged by the casino or pokerroom owner to each player on a timebasis. Generally, the charge is calculated on a 3 minute or hourly basis. Toke: A small amount of money (typically fifty cents or one dollar) given to the dealer by the winner of a pot. Quite often, “tokens” represent the great majority of a dealers income. Top: To beat an opponent. Top-Pair: A pairwith the highest card on the flop. If you have As-Qs, and the flopcomes Qd-Th-6c, you have flopped top-pair. Tough Player: A superior pokerplayer. Tournament: In a pokertournament, each player sits down with the same number of chips, and eventually only one player has all the chips in play. That is the basic idea behind a tournament. Each card room runs tournaments differently. Tournaments are usually played with chips that have no valueoutside of the tournament. So a buy-in of $30 might get you $500 in tournament chips to playwith, but you cannot cash them outin the middle. The winner of a tournament (the last player remaining), as well as several of the other topfinishers, are typically awarded prize money according to a predetermined scale. Trap: When you are in a potand unaware that your handhas little or no chance of winning the pot, you are “trapped”. Trap Hand: A weak hand that will likley be dominated by other hands. Trash Hand: A weakhand. Trey: A three. Trio, Triplets, or Trips: Three-of-a-kind. Trips: Three-of-a-kind. Trips Eight: A Studor Draw split-potpokerwith an eight for low and tripsfor high as qualifiers. Often, this is played with one or two twists. See Twist. Tulsa: See Omaha. Turn: The fourth of five community cardsin flopgames, such as Texas Hold’emand Omaha. This is sometimes called “fourth street”. Turn Down: To fold. Turnie-Turnie: See Mexican Stud. Twenty-Deck Poker: Poker played with twenty cards. All cards lower than ten are removed. Twiggy: Two-nine (29). Twin Beds: A High-Lowgame involving five cards in each handand ten turned- upon the table. Twist: A draw in Studor an extra draw in Draw poker. Twist Your Neighbor: To draw cards from the hands of other players. Two-Card Poker: A pokergame in which the best two cards win. Two-Pair: (1) A handconsisting of two sets of pairs and a singleton. (2) A handconsisting of two cards of one rank, two cards of another rank, and an un-paired card. For example, KK992. Two-Pair Nine: Stud or Draw split-potpokerwith a nine for low and two-pairfor high as qualifiers. Often, this is played with one or two twists. See Twist. Two-Way Hand: A handthat could possibly win both the high half and the low half in a split-potgame.
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