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Baby
A small card, usually a five or less.

Back Door
A hand made back door is one made using both of the last two cards, as in Texas Hold.em.

Backer
A nonplayer who finances an active player.

Back-in
To win by default or unexpectedly.

Backraise
A reraise. To make a minimum raise to avoid a larger raise.

Back-to-back
A pair on the first two cards dealt in stud (Backed Up).

Bad Beat
You must lose to qualify for the Bad-Beat bonus. It typically occurs when you lose in a situation where you're the big favorite. It could also be when an on /off line casino \noffers bonuses for particular types of Bad-Beats.

Bait
A small bet that encourages a raise.

Bank
Where the money from purchased chips is kept.

Bank Night
High-low five-card stud with two twists.

Banker
The person responsible for selling and cashing chips.

Bankroll
The total amount of money one is willing to risk. It can also mean that you provide the money for someone else to gamble.

Barn
A full house.

Barracuda
A tough player.

Baseball
A stud game involving nines and threes as wild cards.

Beans
Chips.

Bear
A tight player.

Beat the Board (Table)
To have a hand better than all others showing.

Beat Your Neighbor
A five-card game that requires each player in turn to expose his cards until his hand beats the board.

Bedsprings
Similar to Cincinnati except ten cards are dealt face-up for use in everyone's hand.

Behind
When you don.t have the best hand before the last cards have been dealt.

Belly
Hit When a draw fills an inside straight (Gut Shot).

Belly Strippers
Cards with slightly trimmed edges that taper from a wider center to the ends (Humps).

Belly-Buster Straight
An inside straight.

Best Flush
A game in which only flushes win the pot.

Bet Into
To bet before another player who apparently has a better hand.

Bet or Get
A rule that one must either bet or fold with no checking allowed (Bet or Drop, Pass out).

Bet the Limit
To bet the maximum amount allowed.

Bet the Pot
To bet an amount equal to the pot.

Bet the Raise
The maximum bet being twice that of the previous bet or raise.

Betting Interval
The period from the first bet to the last call in any given round.

Betting Pace
The degree, extent, and aggressiveness of bets and raises.

Betting Ratios
The differences in maximum bets allowed with each round of betting.

Betting Stakes
The dollar limits of all bets and raises permitted.

Betty Hutton
Seven-card stud with nines and fives wild.

Bicycle
A straight to the five . . . ace, two, three, four, five (Wheel).

Bid
To declare for high or low in split-pot poker.

Big Bill
A hundred dollars or a thousand dollars.

Big Blind
The final and largest blind bet.

Big Bobtail
A four-card straight flush.

Big Cat
Five unpaired cards from the king to the eight.

Big Dog
(1) Five unpaired cards from ace to nine. (2) A big underdog.

Big Full
The highest possible full house.

Big One
A thousand dollars.

Big Slick
In Hold.em it.s an ace and a king as your hole cards.

Big Squeeze
Six-card high-low stud with one twist.

Big Tiger
See Big Cat.

Bill
A dollar or a hundred dollars.

Bird Dog
One who gets players for a game.

Black
The color of $100 chips.

Blank
A card that doesn't look like it's going to help anyone.

Blaze
A five-card hand containing five picture cards.

Blaze
Full A full house in picture cards.

Bleed
To slowly bleed money from a game or a player.

Bleeder
A tight, winning player.

Blind
A mandatory or forced bet before the deal by the first player to the dealer's left.

Blind Bet
To bet before looking at one's hand,

Blind Low
Five-card stud bet blind all the way to the last bet.

Blind Open
An opening bet made without looking at one's cards.

Blind Shuffle
A cheater's shuffle used to stack cards or to leave stacked cards undisturbed after shuffling (False Shuffle).

Blind Tiger
Draw poker with a blind open and a blind raise (Open Blind and Straddle).

Block System
An ante, open, and first raise automatically done in the blind by the dealer.

Blood Poker
A higher-stake poker game played primarily for money rather than for social reasons.

Blow Back
A raise after previously calling or checking.

Bluff
The attempt to win a pot by making better hands fold.

Blur Intensity
The lightness or darkness of printing visible on partially flashed cards, indicating a high or a low card.

Board
(1) The poker table. (2) All face-up cards in stud or hold 'em.

Bobtail Flush or Straight
A four-card flush or a four-card, open-end straight.

Bolt
To fold.

Bone
A white chip, the lowest denomination chip.

Bonus
A fixed sum established by house rules that is paid by each player to the holder of a very high-value hand such as a straight flush (Premium, Royalty, Penalties).

Book
A three-card draw.

Boost
To raise.

Border Work
Markings added by cheaters to the printed borderlines of cards to identify their value.

Bottom Deal
To deal cards off the bottom of the deck when cheating.

Bottom Pair
When you pair the lowest card if there are three cards of different ranks on the flop in any flop game.

Bouillotte
A French card game that influenced the open-card stud variation in poker.

Bounty
Some tournaments offer small amounts of cash to anyone who knocks out another player in the tournament.

Boxed Card
A card turned the wrong way in a deck.

Boy
A jack.

Brag
The betting expression in the English game of Bragg.

Bragg
An English three-card game that influenced the use of the full fifty-two-card deck in poker.

Braggers
Jacks and nines as wild cards. Or the ace of diamonds, the jack of clubs, and the nine of diamonds as wild cards.

Brandeln
A card game similar to Commerce.

Breakers
Openers.

Breathe
To pass the first opportunities to bet.

Brelen
(1) A French card game that influenced the use of straights and flushes in poker. (2) Three of a kind.

Brelen Carre
Four of a kind.

Brief
A single stripper card in a deck used to facilitate illegal cuts.

Bring In
To bring in the betting is to make the first bet on the first round of a hand (not including blind bets and antes). A player who does this is said to 'bring it in'. In \nseven-card stud, often the lowest card on the board is forced to bring it in. The bet so placed is called the bring-in.

Broadway
A straight with the ace as the high card.

Brush
A card room employee responsible for managing the seating list.

Buck
(1) A marker used to designate the dealer. (2) A marker or a knife used to designate the player permitted to deal a special hand, usually a hand with a dealer advantage such as \ndraw. (3) A dollar.

Buddy Poker
To avoid betting against a friend or a partner.

Buffalo
To fool opponents.

Bug
(1) The joker used in high-hand poker as an ace or as a wild card for filling straights and flushes. A wild card in lowball. Can be used in high-low as both a high card and a \nlow card in the same hand (Joker). (2) A device fastened beneath the poker table by a cheater to hold out a card or cards.

Bull
A player who raises frequently.

Bull Montana
Five-card stud with betting, then jacks required to open the final bet.

Bull or Bullet
An ace.

Bull the Game
To bluff or bet aggressively.

Bump
A raise.

Buried Card
A card randomly inserted in the deck.

Burn
(1) A full house. (2) To lose a hand. (3) Deal a burn card.

Burned, Burnt, or Burn Card
(1) An exposed card put face-up on the bottom of the deck (2) A card dealt face down into the discards.

Busted Hand
(1) A worthless hand (Bust). (2) A hand that failed to fill a straight or a flush on the draw.

Busy Card
Any card that completes a hand.

Butcher Boy
An open-hand form of poker where four of a kind is needed to win.

Button
(1) A marker used to signify a theoretical dealer when there is a house dealer. (2) A second or third pair.

Buy
(1) To call bets in order to draw cards. (2) To bluff someone out.

Buy In
The stack of chips that a player buys at the start of a game.

By Me
An expression meaning to pass or check.