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G  G-Note A one thousand dollar bill.    Gaff 1) A cheating device or method, such as a holdout machine or marking the cards. 2) To use such a device or method. To gaff the cards could mean to mark them by any of several means.    Gallery 1) Watchers; onlookers; spectators on the rail observing the action at a particular table or at a tournament. 2) Any hand having lots of picture cards.    Gamble 1) Loose play, or the desire to play other than tight. "He must have a lot of gamble in him, because he never lets any of it out." Also, bounce, jump.2) Play loosely. Note : This word has special meaning among poker players, and is different from the more generalized definition of the word as found in most dictionaries.    Gambler One who takes chances in a poker game. According to Doyle Brunson, in his Super System, this term "... is often used to describe the class (that is, the quality) of a poker player. When the word is used this way it describes the highest class of player--which actually means that the player is not really a gambler at all, but a highly skilled player."    Game 1) A specific poker game, in the sense of a table full of players (not in the sense of a variety of poker). "Good game on table three." 2) The specific form of poker being played; sometimes the size of a game. "Table 4 is a an Omaha game." "This is a 6-12 game." 3) A reference to the locale or format of a poker game, as a home game or private game.    Game Starter A card room employee who plays with House money, and does not share in any of his (her) winnings or losses. Shills are used to facilitate starting games, and keeping them going.    Game Theory Betting or calling in a certain way when you don't know how an opponent plays so as to prevent the opponent from obtaining an edge by his own betting or calling. Against an opponent whose play you are familiar with, you bluff more or less often depending on what you know of his calling habits. Against one whose habits you don't know, though, you use game theory. For example, if there are five bets in the pot and you have a hand that can win only by bluffing, if you can get away with a (one-bet) bluff more than one-fifth of the time, you profit by this use of game theory.    Gap 1) A missing card in a hand, particularly in the middle of an inside straight.2) Empty seat. When a table has one or more empty seats, the dealer or one of the seated players may try to entice a prospective participant this way: "Siddown. There's a gap in the trap for a sap."    Gaper A cheating device, a mirror or other shiny object, such as a highly-polished cigarette lighter, placed apparently innocently on the table, used to read the reflected faces of the cards while they are being dealt. Also gleamer, shiner, or reflector.    Gar Hole A term that describes the situation in which chips are locked up (Pertaining to chips residing in the stack of a very tight player, and thus difficult for any other player to win). "You'll never get any of his chips; they're in a gar hole."    Garbage 1) The discards. "Pass the garbage; my deal next." 2) Poor hand. "Hey, dealer; can't you give me anything but garbage?"    Garbage Pile Discard pile in which all cards are dead.    Gardena Miracle An extremely lucky draw, usually greatly defying probability, and often in such a way as to defeat a hand that has considerably the best of it. If, in lowball, you have a pat 6-4, and I make the blind good and draw three cards and make a wheel, you will be justified in accusing me of having been blessed with a Gardena miracle. In draw poker, you can also draw three cards to two cards of the same suit and make a flush and also be considered to have made a Gardena miracle. Many players consider drawing two and making a straight flush or even a flush also to fall into the class of Gardena miracle, but that is more correctly called a cat hop. Also, freak draw. Named after the city of Gardena, in Southern California, which was once known as the poker-playing capital of America.    Gardena Razz A form of lowball draw that used to be popular in Gardena, played as winner blind. This form of lowball is no longer very common, and the term razz usually refers to seven-card stud lowball    Gardena-Style Pertaining to double-limit games; so called because these games originated in the Gardena area.    George Good, great. "Sit down. It's a George game." Opposite of Tom    Georgia Hoop. Terrific. When someone says this, you know he's pleased about something.    Georgy Good, great. "Sit down. It's a George game." Opposite of Tom    Get a Game Down Start a game. A floor person might say, "As soon as we get one more player, we're going to get a 20-40 down."    Get a Hand Cracked Have a good hand beaten, usually by an opponent going against the odds.    Get Full Value Betting, raising and re-raising in order to manipulate the size of the pot so that you will be getting maximum pot odds if you win the hand.    Get Hit with the Deck Be in a situation of making every hand or having good hands in crucial pots, particularly when large pots are involved.    Get it Fixed. "You lose." This is what an uncouth player says about another player's hand when he spreads his own better hand    Get One's Feet Wet Get into a pot, probably losing it.    Get Out 1) Fold. "Two raises to me? I'll get out." 2) Get even. (Win after having been losing, particularly if the period of being behind was lengthy.) "I had to get stuck $2000 before I managed to get out."    Get Smooth The point at which a rough lowball hand becomes not-so-rough. For example, in the hand 9-8-3-2-A, which is a rough 9, the hand gets smooth after the 8.    Get the Right Price The pot odds are favorable enough for you to justify calling a bet or a raise with a drawing hand.    Get There To make your hand.    Get Well 1) Win a big pot that puts one even or ahead. "I flopped four sixes and beat two full houses. That pot got me well." 2) Win after having been losing, particularly if the period of being behind was lengthy.    Gilroy Three 10s, from the phrase San Jose to Gilroy. Also, from here to Gilroy.    Gin In lowball, when a player says "Gin!" it means he has a wheel (A-2-3-4-5).    Girl Queen (the card). Also, lady, mop squeezer    Git-go Start; usually preceded by from the. "He had four girls right from the git-go."    Give a Card Permit a free ride, that is, in stud poker or hold 'em, not bet on a particular round, so that opponents can get another card without having to call a bet.    Give Action Betting, calling, raising or re-raising.    Give Air Inadvertently exposing cards; usually part of the phrase put air into [a hand]. "You'll like sitting next to Johnny; he puts a lot of air into his hand." That is, if you sit next to Johnny, the way he holds his cards you can often see some of them, which, presumably, gives you an edge (albeit an unethical one) on him.    Give Away Revealing one's hand by obvious play.    Give Someone a Card Let an opponent have a free card (A card that a player gets without having to call a bet. ).    Glass-Work Use by a cheating dealer of a mirror or other reflective device (such as a shiner) to read the faces of the cards while they are being dealt face down.    Glazed Card A card that has been sanded slightly, to allow a cheating dealer to find it among the others card.    Gleamer A cheating device, a mirror or other shiny object, such as a highly-polished cigarette lighter, placed apparently innocently on the table, used to read the reflected faces of the cards while they are being dealt. Also, gaper, shiner, reflector    Glim Worker A cheater who uses glass-work (Use by a cheating dealer of a mirror or other reflective device (such as a shiner) to read the faces of the cards while they are being dealt face down).    Glimmer A cheating device, a mirror or other shiny object, such as a highly-polished cigarette lighter, placed apparently innocently on the table, used to read the reflected faces of the cards while they are being dealt. Also, gaper, shiner, reflector    Glue A sticky substance a thief rubs on his palm to permit chips to stick to the palm without having to close his fingers around the chips. Also, check cop.    Go The current betting level (amount it takes to enter the pot), as in "$20 to go" meaning every player must contribute $20 (total) or drop. A $10 raise would then make the pot "$30 to go".    Go All in To run out of chips while betting or calling. In table stakes games, a player may not go into his pocket for more money during a hand. If he runs out, a side pot is created in which he has no interest. However, he can still win the pot for which he had the chips. Example: "Poor Bob - he made quads against the big full house, but he was all-in on the second bet."    Go Both Ways In a high-low split game, use chips or voice to indicate you're going for both high and low simultaneously.    Go Cow Go half and half with a player on his buy-in to a game; usually preceded by go; sometimes followed by up. When the player quits, he splits with the person with whom he went cow. Sometimes the house goes cow with a player to enable him to get into a larger game than he could otherwise afford, generally with the no altruistic purpose of filling what would otherwise be a shaky game. At some point when the player (the house hopes) gets far enough ahead of the game, the house may split him out, that is, remove half of his chips and put him on his own.    Go for it 1) Perform a cheating maneuver with the deck. If a bottom dealer goes for it, it means he is just in the process of dealing a bottom. 2) Draw to a hand. "What's it cost me? I'm going to go for it."    Go for the Bottom Deal a card from the bottom of the deck.    Go Hog In a high-low split game, use chips or voice to indicate you're going for both high and low simultaneously. Also, hog it or just hog.    Go in 1) Put money into a pot, thereby remaining eligible to win the pot. 2) To run out of chips while betting or calling. In table stakes games, a player may not go into his pocket for more money during a hand. If he runs out, a side pot is created in which he has no interest. However, he can still win the pot for which he had the chips. Example: "Poor Bob - he made quads against the big full house, but he was all-in on the second bet."    Go Light In some home games, not played for table stakes, when a player does not have enough chips to continue betting in a pot, that player withdraws chips from the pot equal to the amount of the betting beyond his chips, (usually) stacking them neatly in front of him. These are called lights. To so withdraw chips is called go light.    Go South 1) Remove chips surreptitiously from the table (so called because on a map that's the direction they go), or pocket winnings while playing. Also called rat hole. 2) Palm or otherwise surreptitiously remove cards from the deck for later introduction (by a thief) at an opportune moment. 3) Leave a game or card room with money obtained dishonestly. 4) Disappear. "I lent him $20 and he went south with it."    Go the Overs 1) Over blinding (Put in a blind when one is already present. In a traveling blind game, this could mean someone putting in an optional blind in addition to the mandatory blinds. In a game without mandatory blinds, this would be blinding a pot (putting in a blind) after someone else has killed it. (To put in an over blind is sometimes called to kill.). 2) Playing at a higher limit than the house has set for the game, usually for the purpose of paying time to the house at the nominal rate for the game. For example, playing 8-limit stakes in a 6-limit game, or playing 4-8 in a 3-6 game. 3) Playing, among players who agree, at higher limits then those who don't have dropped.    Go to the Center To run out of chips while betting or calling. In table stakes games, a player may not go into his pocket for more money during a hand. If he runs out, a side pot is created in which he has no interest. However, he can still win the pot for which he had the chips. Example: "Poor Bob - he made quads against the big full house, but he went to the center on the second bet."    Go Uphill Defy the odds. Trying to beat a hand you know to be better than yours. In stud or hold 'em games, this means call another bet, with an inferior hand, to see one more card, and probably be willing to see subsequent cards if the next one doesn't help, or if the next one gives one a draw to a possible winner. In draw games, this means call a bet with the intention of drawing multiple cards trying to make a Gardena miracle or freak draw.    God of Lowball A mythical deity to whom lowball players supposedly pray for good hands, and who presumably protects those in his good graces; used humorously.    God of Poker Dictionary A mythical deity to whom poker players supposedly pray for good hands, and who presumably protects those in his (her?) good graces; used humorously.    Going Home Hand A hand on which a player has wagered his last chips and will go home if he loses. Generally the player puts all his chips in the pot prior to the call from another player, or prior to the draw in draw poker or lowball, stands up, and says, "If I lose this one, I'm going home." A going home hand usually beats an Oh shit! hand.    Going the Overs 1) Over blinding (Put in a blind when one is already present. In a traveling blind game, this could mean someone putting in an optional blind in addition to the mandatory blinds. In a game without mandatory blinds, this would be blinding a pot (putting in a blind) after someone else has killed it. (To put in an over blind is sometimes called to kill.). 2) Playing at a higher limit than the house has set for the game, usually for the purpose of paying time to the house at the nominal rate for the game. For example, playing 8-limit stakes in a 6-limit game, or playing 4-8 in a 3-6 game. 3) Playing, among players who agree, at higher limits then those who don't have dropped.    Golden Glow A liquid for marking the backs of cards, a form of daub.    Golyoonies The nuts (The best possible hand of a given class. The "nut flush" is the highest possible flush, but might still lose to, e.g., a full house. Usually used in Hold'em games.); usually preceded by the    Good 1) Not foul, that is, describing a legitimate, playable hand, one that has not run afoul of the house rules. 2) The situation in which a player has one of the various traveling blinds, dealer blind, middle blind, or big blind, someone has opened the pot, and the holder of the blind calls the opening bet, usually with a marginal hand, and with the intention of "protecting" his investment (operating under the fallacious theory that the chip or chips he has put into the pot prior to the deal in the form of the blind still belong to him).3) In lowball, smooth (The best possible low hand with a particular high card. 8432A is a smooth 8. "I've got a good eight" means the hand is probably an 8-5 or 8-4. 4) Describing a, or the, winning hand, often said by the loser of a pot with respect to the hand that has beaten him, before he has shown his own hand. Saying "That's good" essentially surrenders the pot.    Good Game A game with players worse than you so that you can expect to win a lot of money.    Good Hand. A verbal acknowledgment by a player on the showdown that another player has the best hand.    Goolsby In hold 'em, Q-T as one's first two cards.    Gorillas In hold 'em, two kings as one's first two cards. Comes from King Kong    Grand $1000.    Grand Jury Three fours. (A grand jury has 12 members.)    Graveyard Graveyard shift (One of the three shifts in a 24-hour card room or casino, the shift between swing and day. Graveyard shift usually starts anywhere between midnight and 2 am and ends eight hours later.). "When do you work?" "I'm on graveyard."    Graveyard Shift One of the three shifts in a 24-hour card room or casino, the shift between swing and day. Graveyard shift usually starts anywhere between midnight and 2 am and ends eight hours later.    Gravy 1) Unexpected profit on a hand. For example, in a no-limit lowball game one player has only $20 and is all in. You have created a side pot of $200 by raising another player. You and the other player both have money left. The all-in player and the other player each draw one card. You are snowing and stand pat on a queen-jack. After the draw, the player with remaining chips checks, you bet $200, and he folds. You know that the side pot is all yours, already a profit of $80, but you think that the $60 main pot probably will belong to the all-in player, however, on the showdown he cannot beat your hand, because he was drawing to a wheel and paired one of the small cards. That $60 is gravy. 2) The amount by which a player is ahead, usually implying that he is in a lot and was stuck until fairly recently. "Boy, you're winning a lot! Look at all those chips--must be over a grand." "Uh huh. I'm in a thousand. There's $1040 here, so $40 is gravy."    Grec By extension (or guilt by association!), any professional gambler.    Greek 1) A card cheat; thief; card sharp. 2) By extension (or guilt by association!), any professional gambler. Also, Grec.    Greek Bottom 1) A cheating maneuver, in which the second card from the bottom of the deck is dealt. 2) The card itself, that is, the second card from the bottom of the deck.    Greekery A general term for cheating or thievery.    Green Green is the most common color for $25 chips. If someone bets a stack of green, it means they're betting a bunch of $25 chips, probably 20 of them.    Green Chip A $25 chip, also called a quarter.    Grift 1) To cheat, usually involving stealing small amounts of money. 2) A swindler or cheater, generally one who steals small amounts of money on an irregular basis. 3) A cheating scheme used by a cheat.    Grifter A swindler or cheater, generally one who steals small amounts of money on an irregular basis. Also called grift.    Grind Win gradually, but consistently. The implication here is that this is done by someone in a game smaller than he is used to and by playing tighter than he usually does. Also said disparagingly of a conservative, winning player who never wins big, but also never gets caught gambling. "Been playing big lately?" "Nah, just grinding."    Grind Out Win gradually, but consistently. The implication here is that this is done by someone in a game smaller than he is used to and by playing tighter than he usually does. Also said disparagingly of a conservative, winning player who never wins big, but also never gets caught gambling.    Grinder One who grinds (Win gradually, but consistently. The implication here is that this is done by someone in a game smaller than he is used to and by playing tighter than he usually does. Also said disparagingly of a conservative, winning player who never wins big, but also never gets caught gambling.)    Group N Hand In hold 'em, a ranking of starting hands, according to a chart originally developed by David Sklansky. Group 1 hands include aces, kings, queens, ace-king suited, and so on.    Gut Pertaining to an inside straight. To catch in the gut means to make an inside straight. An inside straight card is sometimes called a belly card.    Gut Shot A draw to an inside straight, as in 2-3-4-6.    Gut Straight Inside straight (Four cards requiring one in the middle to fill a straight.)    Guts "Normal" five-card-draw high poker, bet-or-fold before the draw, open on anything, that is, no opening requirements, as opposed to, for example, jacks or better.    Guts to Open "Normal" five-card-draw high poker, bet-or-fold before the draw, open on anything, that is, no opening requirements, as opposed to, for example, jacks or better.    Gutshot Straight An straight filled "inside". If you have 9s-8s, the flop comes 7c-5h-2d, and the turn is the 6c, you've made your gutshot straight.    Gypsy See gypsying in. This term is often used in the negative, no gypsy, meaning that the minimum open is always two bets.    Gypsy in In the smaller double-limit games, usually up to 15-30, a pot can be opened for the minimum bet. For example, in the 2-4 game, the dealer puts a dollar chip in the pot before the cards have been dealt, the player to the left of the dealer also puts in a dollar chip before the cards have been dealt, and the player two positions to the left of the dealer puts in two dollar chips. After the cards have been dealt, the players look at their cards. Starting three positions to the left of the dealer, each player makes a decision in turn whether to play the pot. If a player does not want to play, the player discards his or her cards, and has no further interest in this pot. The first player to put money into the pot after having seen his or her cards is said to open the pot, or, simply, to open. That player has two choices on the opening bet. He or she can open for $2, that is, the size of the big blind. Or he or she can open for $4, which is called coming in for a raise. Opening for the minimum permitted is called gypsying in.