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Walk
To be away from the table long enough to miss one or more hands.

Walk the Table
The automatic winning of the entire pot with a certain specific card or hand.

Wash
To Shuffle.

Waving
Coiling or crimping cards by a cheater so the wavy card can be spotted in an opponent's hand or in the deck.

Weak
Play characterized by a readiness to fold and a reluctance to raise.

Weary Willie
See Elimination.

Wedges
Certain tapered or shaved cards that can be pulled from a deck when needed by the cheater.

Welcher
A player who fails to pay a debt.

Whangedoodle
A round of jackpots played after a big hand such as four of a kind.

Wheel
See Bicycle.

Whipsaw
To bet and raise aggressively on both sides of a calling player. (Squeezed Player).

Whiskey Poker
Draw poker with widow cards that can be exchanged from one's hand.

White
The most common color for $1 chips.

Whore
A queen.

Widow
(1) A card or cards common to all hands (Spit Card). (2) The money cut from pots (Kitty).

Wild Annie
See Double-Barreled Shotgun.

Wild Card
A card changeable to any value or suit desired by its holder.

Wild Game
(1) A game using wild cards. (2) A highly spirited or fast-paced game.

Wild Widow
A card turned up for use as a wild card (with all similar cards being wild) in every player's hand (Spit Card).

Window
The card exposed or flashed at the end of a player's closed hand.

Window Dressing
A card purposely flashed from one's closed hand.

Wing
To have a winning streak.

Wired (Back-to-Back)
A pair, trips, or four of a kind dealt consecutively or back-to-back in a hand ... usually in a stud hand starting with the first card.

Woolworth
A game in which all fives and tens are wild.

World Series of Poker
A Hold 'em tournament with a $10,000 buy-in held every May at Binion's Horseshoe Casino in Las Vegas.