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Abbreviation for a jack, usually found only in written text about cards.
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1) A face card, the one that ranks between the 10 and the queen. 2) To raise. "I'll jack it" means "I'll raise." "I'll jack the pot." Often part of the phrase jack it, jack up, or jack it up.
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| Jack Benny |
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In hold 'em, a 3 and a 9 as the down cards, from Benny's running gag about his age.
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1) In high poker, a no pair hand whose highest card is a jack. "I have a jack high; can you beat that?" "Yeah, I got queen high." 2) In low poker, a hand topped by a jack.
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| Jack Stripper |
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A jack marked by shaving its long edge so that a thief can determine its rank by feel.
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| Jack Up |
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1) Raise the limits. "Let's jack up this game!" means let's play for higher stakes. 2) Raise. "Let's jack up this pot!" means "I raise."
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Pertaining to a straight or flush topped by a jack. "I was drawing to a jack-high flush but all I made was jack high."
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A progressive prize in some card rooms given to the player who gets, in lowball, a 6-4 beat, or, in high, a given hand, perhaps aces full, or four of a kind, beat. The procedure for collection of the prize fund differs in each card room. In some, part of the antes or blinds, called the jackpot drop is taken each hand and added to the jackpot fund. The procedure for awarding the jackpot also varies widely. In some clubs, the fund is for all games; in others, it is for a specific game. That is, for example, the 2-4 hold 'em may have one jackpot, while the 3-6 and 5-10 each has its own separate jackpot. The usual procedure is the holder of the beaten hand receives the largest share of the jackpot; the holder of the hand that beats the loser receives a smaller percentage; while the remainder of the players split a third portion. The division might be 50% of the jackpot to the loser, 25% to the holder of the winning hand, and 25% split to the other players at the table. Other divisions are found, also. In some large clubs, the jackpots frequently grow into the tens of thousands of dollars, leading to the interesting phenomenon of players specifically trying to get their hands beat, and often staying in for several bets on hands they might not otherwise play. The rules for collection and disbursement of jackpots changed in California in 1998, but the effect remains about the same. Also called bad beat jackpot.
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A Jackpot (A special bonus paid to the loser of a hand if he gets a very good hand beaten.)
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A form of poker in which the card room offers a jackpot for particularly bad beats. Typically you must have aces full or better.
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A form of high draw poker, in which a player cannot open the pot without holding at least two jacks as openers before the draw. This is the same as jacks or better; the term jackpots is mostly used in home games.
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A form of five-card draw poker in which each player in turn looks at his cards, and opens if he has jacks or better (and if he wishes). If no player opens for high--and to do so he must have at least a pair of jacks (and he must show openers at some point)--then the hand is played for low (as described under ace-to-five), again starting with the player to the left of the dealer. At this point, the game becomes bet-or-fold
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| Jacks Full |
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A Full house consisting of three jacks and another pair.
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| Jacks Open / Tripps Win |
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Played like 5-card draw, with the following differences. Jacks or better are needed to open the betting (if no one can open, re-ante and re-deal). Then there is the standard betting round, draw and betting round. Then, if anyone has three-of-a-kind or better, he says so, and the highest hand wins. If not, then everyone who is still in gets another opportunity to draw. If a player has at least three-of-a-kind, he must say so and cannot keep drawing. This game almost always requires reshuffling and it must be decided beforehand when to reshuffle (after the last card, when there are less than 3 cards left or when the player asks for more than the number of cards left).
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| Jacks or Better |
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A form of draw poker in which a player needs at least a pair of Jacks to start the betting.
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1) Jacks up (Two pair, the higher of which are jacks.). 2) Jacks full (A Full house consisting of three jacks and another pair.).
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| Jacks to Open |
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Same as jacks or better (A form of draw poker in which a player needs at least a pair of Jacks to start the betting.).
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| Jacks Up |
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Two pair, the higher of which are jacks.
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| Jam |
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To bet or raise the maximum, especially in no-limit, is to jam.
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| Jam it |
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To bet or raise the maximum, especially in no-limit, is to jam.
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| Jam it Up |
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To bet or raise the maximum, especially in no-limit, is to jam.
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| Jam Pot |
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A pot with lots of betting, raising, and re-raising
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| Jam the Pot |
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To bet or raise the maximum, especially in no-limit, is to jam.
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| Jam Up |
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To bet or raise the maximum, especially in no-limit, is to jam.
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| Jam-Up |
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1) A way of playing: very good, or very tight. "He's playing jam-up and jelly-tight." 2) Really good, usually describing a game.
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| Jammed Pot |
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The pot has been raised the maximum number of times, and may also be multi-way.
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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.). "Get in a pot with him and he'll show you Jerusalem." More commonly called the Holy City
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| Jesse |
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Jesse James (A pot stealer; a bluffer.). If you raise me out of a pot, I might say, "Take it, Jesse." This implies that you have bluffed me out with your bet.
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| Jesse James |
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1) A pot stealer; a bluffer. 2) In hold 'em, a 4 and a 5 as the down cards, because legend has it he was shot with a .45.
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| Jitney |
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$5 or a $5 chip. Comes from the five cents that used to be the fare on a jitney bus.
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| Joe Bernstein |
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In hold' em, 6-9 as one's first two cards. Named after a famous gambler and high roller of the 20s and 30s.
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| Joe Goz |
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The shift manager; the boss. "Who's the Joe Goz around here?"
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| Jog |
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A brief (A tiny "ledge" shuffled into a deck by a cheater so that his accomplice can cut it at the prearranged location; a card offset by a barely perceptible fraction of an inch but able to be found by touch when cut. A brief can be felt but not easily seen; a good cutter can feel a 1/32-inch brief. Sometimes called jog, needle, or step.).
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A cut made to a brief by a cheater, such that a desired clump of cards ends up at a specified location of the deck, usually right at the top or at the bottom.
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1) Jack (the card). 2) Easy prey for a thief; ignorant or naive player. From the slang term for a prostitute's customer.
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In hold ' em, A-T as one's first two cards.
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| Joint |
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Card room; gambling establishment. Also called store or shop. Sometimes part of the phrase bust-out joint, carpet joint, juice joint, sawdust join
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| Joker |
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The fifty-third card in the deck, used as a wild card.
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Joker trouble (In lowball, drawing more than one card because one has the joker; usually used as an excuse to justify what others might otherwise criticize as a bad play. "Gimme two. I've got joker trouble).
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| Joker Trouble |
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In lowball, drawing more than one card because one has the joker; usually used as an excuse to justify what others might otherwise criticize as a bad play. "Gimme two. I've got joker trouble
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Any poker game in which a joker is used as a wild card. Also called poker with the joker.
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| Jokers Wild |
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Joker wild (Any poker game in which a joker is used as a wild card. Also called poker with the joker.)
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| Judge Bean |
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Three 10s, probably referring to 30 days, one of the many sentences the frontier judge was famous for handing ou
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| Judge Duffy |
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Three 10s, probably referring to "30 days or $30," a common sentence handed down for pleading guilty in the 1930s and 40s to illegal gambling, by this (probably) generic judge
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| Judith |
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The queen of hearts. May come from the Bible.
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| Juice |
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1) Markings on cards (put there by a thief). 2) A percentage of each pot kept by the house; also called rake or vigorish. 3) To mark a deck.
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| Juice Joint |
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A crooked card room or gambling establishment. Also called wire joint.
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Liveliness; "I like his action. He's got a lot of jump."
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| Jump the Cut |
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Hop the cut (Replace the cards in the same order as they were prior to the cut. This is a slSeven-of-hand maneuver by a card mechanic to negate the effect of the cut. Also called elevator the cut, jump the cut, make a pass, shift the cut.).
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| Jump the Fence |
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Come in cold (Call a bet and one or more raises without yet having any money in the pot.). Also, hop the fence
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