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Abbreviation for a queen, usually found only in written text about cards.
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Deuces. (Deuces are sometimes called ducks, as in Dewey Duck.)
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A minimum standard that a hand must meet in order to win. Usually applied to the lowball side of a high-low split pot.
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1) Openers (Minimum opening requirements in a particular game. In California draw (limit), for example, a pair of jacks is openers. "Who's got openers?" means "Can anyone open the pot?", that is, does anyone have a pair of jacks or better?). 2) In a high-low split game, particular holding (or better) that a player must have to win the low half or high half of a pot, as, for example, 8-or-better.
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Four cards in sequence of the same suit, that is, four to a straight flush.
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1) Twenty-five dollars, often symbolized by a green casino chip. 2) To divide half a pot between two tying hands. In split pot games, a player who "ties" another player for their half of the pot is said to be "quartered".
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Twenty-five dollars, often symbolized by a green casino chip.
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Twenty-five dollars, often symbolized by a green casino chip.
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1) A small home poker game, in which the stakes generally are nickels, dimes, and quarters. Also, nickel-dime-quarter game. 2) Any small-stakes game.
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Winning one-fourth of a pot, usually due to splitting the low half of the pot in a high-low split game.
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A face card, the one that ranks between the jack and the king.
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1) In high poker, a no pair hand whose highest card is a queen. "I have a queen high; can you beat that?" "Yeah, I got king high." 2) In low poker, a hand topped by a queen.
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Pertaining to a straight or flush topped by a queen. "I was drawing to a queen-high flush but all I made was queen high."
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A full house consisting of three queens and another pair.
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1) A full house consisting of three queens and another pair.2) Two pair, the higher of which are queens.
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Two pair, the higher of which are queens.
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Any of several cheating devices, such as a holdout machine.
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1) In lowball, a 9. 2) In hold 'em, Q-9 as one's first two cards.
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Cash in your chips and leave a game.
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In a home game, the prearranged time at which the game is supposed to end. (This is often violated when the losers insist on playing "just one more round" or "just another hour" in a usually-vain attempt to recoup their losses, and the winners sometimes accommodate them, knowing the losers will likely lose even more
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The minimum number of players, usually six, required to start a poker game.
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