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Poker Dictionary
Action: The betting in a specific hand or a game. A game with more of action is the game with more of betting. The player who begins the action is the player who makes the first bet
Aces-Up: Two-pair where one of the pairs is aces.
Active player: The player competing for the pot.
Add-on: The opportunity to buy additional chips. Note: this is only allowed in some tournaments.
All-in: A player is considered to be "all-in" when they bet all their remaining chips or money.
Ante: A small, forced bet that everyone at the table is required to pay before each hand (only in games with an "ante"). Most Texas Hold'em games do not have an ante; they use blinds to get initial money into the pot. It is especially used in tournaments at higher levels.
Baby: A small card, particularly an ace, 2, 3, 4, or 5. This term is used especially in games like razz and high-low split.
Back-door: In Hold’em, a hand made by using the last two cards dealt.
Back-In: To win by default or unexpectedly.
Bad beat: Having a hand which is a big favorite defeated as a result of a lucky draw, especially when the person drawing was playing wrongly by being in the pot in the first position.
Bad game: A game where your rivals are too good for you to make you win; and also a game where you’re an underdog.
Bankroll: The amount of money you have available to wager.
Belly buster: A draw to an inside-straight. Also known as gut shot.
Best of it: A circumstances where a wager is expected to be profitable over a long period of time.
Bet: To contribute money in the pot before others do on any particular round.
Bettor: The person who first contributes money in the pot on any particular round.
Bet for value: To bet in order to be called by a lesser hand. You bet so as to make money and not to make your rivals fold.
Bicycle: Ace, 2, 3, 4, 5 – the best possible hand in lowball. It is also known as wheel and a baby straight. It is used in almost all the games.Big Blind: In flop games, two bets are usually posted before any cards are dealt. The "small blind" by the player seated to the immediate left of the dealer and the "big blind" (usually double the small blind) by the player seated to the immediate left of the small blind.
Blank: A card that is not of any value to a player’s hand.
Blind: In most of the games such as hold’em and draw lowball; a forced bet that one or more players must make to start the action on the first round of betting. With a new deal, the blind rotates around the table. The person whose turn it is to bet is said to be in the blind.
Bluff: A bet or a raise with a hand you do not believe is the best hand.
Board: The cards that are face up in a player’s hand. In hold’em, the community cards.
Bring it in: To begin the betting on an early round.
Burn: To discard the top card from the deck, face-down. This is done between each betting round, before putting out the next community card(s). It provides security against any player recognizing or glimpsing the next card to be used on the board.
Busted hand: A hand that does not create anything of value.
Button: When there is a house dealer, as in the card room of Las Vegas, the button is a round disc that rotates around the table to represent the dealer for the purpose of considering which player is to be first to perform. A button is essential in games like hold’em, draw lowball and five card draw.
Buy in: The minimum amount of money needed to sit down in a given game.
Call: To contribute in the pot an amount of money equivalent to a rival’s bet or raise.
Call a raise cold: To call a double bet – i.e. a bet and a raise.
Caller: The person who calls a bet or a raise.
Calling Station: A weak/passive player who calls a lot but does not raise or fold very often. This is the kind of player you like to have in your game.
Chase: Continuing in a hand to try to outdraw a rival’s hand you are sure is better than yours.
Card room: The place where the poker game is played.
Check: To decline to bet when it is your turn.
Check-raise: To check and then raise after a rival bets.
Chip: A round coin in different denomination representing money. It is also called a check by many professional gamblers.
Cinch: The best possible hand, particular the cards on board, when all the cards are out.
Closed hand: A hand where all the cards are disguised from rivals.
Cold-Call: To call more than one bet. For example, one player bets, the following player raises, and the next player "cold calls".
Collusion: Two or more players who are working together to cheat other players.
Come hand: A hand that has not been made, with more cards still to be dealt. Therefore, a four-card flush will be on a come hand.
Crying call: A call with a hand you think has a small chance of winning.
Cut the pot: To take the ratio from each pot as the profits for the person or the casino playing the game.
Dead hand: A hand a player may not proceed to play because of an indiscretion.
Dead money: Money contributed in the pot by the players who have already folded their hands.
Dealer: (1) A person who deals the cards. (2) The operator of a gambling game in a casino.
Dealer’s choice: The player whose turn is to deal may select the game for that particular hand.
Deck: All the cards used in the game, also called a pack.
Deuce: Twos are sometimes called deuces.
Deuces-Wild: Playing all twos as wild cards.
Draw: 1. to take one or more cards. 2. the part of poker in which each player gets five cards and then has the opportunity of discarding one or more of them and getting new cards in their place.
Drawing dead: Drawing to try to make a hand that cannot probably win because the rival already has a bigger hand. A player drawing to make a flush when a rival already has a full house is drawing dead.
Draw lowball: A part of poker in which the best low hand wins.
Draw out: Improving your hand so as to beat a rival who had a better hand than yours before to your draw.
Door card: In stud games, the first exposed card in a player’s hand.
Double belly buster: See Open-ended straight.
Early position: A position on a round of betting where you should perform before all the other players performs.
Edge: An advantageous position.
Effective odds: The percentage of the total amount of money you desire to win if you make your hand to the total amount of bets you will have to call to continue from the present round of betting to the end of the hand.
Equity: The amount of a given hand or the combination of cards.
Even money: A wager in which you desire to win the same amount as you bet. It is used to express the case in which the chances that one result will happen the same as the chances the opposite result will happen. Thus, whether the decent coin comes up heads or tails is an even-money proposition.
Expectation: The average profit (or loss) of any bet over a long period of time.
Favorite: In poker game, before all the cards are out, a hand that has the best chance of winning.
Fifth street: Each player is dealt with the fifth card in stud poker. The fifth and final community card on board in hold’em.
Fill: To draw a card that makes a hand. For instance, to fill a flush is to draw a fifth card of that suit.
Fill up: To make a full house.
Five-card draw: A part of poker in which players commences with five cards and then may draw to replace them.
Flat call: To call a bet without raising.
Flat limit: A betting limit in a poker game that does not rise from one round to the next round.
Flop: The first three exposed community cards in hold’em are dealt simultaneously. It is also used as a verb. For instance to flop a set is to make a three-of-a-kind on the flop.
Flush: Five cards of the same suit.
Fold: To come out of the pot rather than call a bet or raise.
Forced bet: A bet required to start the action on the first round of a poker hand. For instance, in seven card stud, the low card on board should make a forced bet.
Four-flush: Four cards to a flush.
Four-of-a-kind: Four cards of the same ranking. Four jacks is four-of- a-kind.
Fourth street: Each player is dealt with the fourth card in stud poker games. On board the fourth community card in hold
Free card: A card that a player receive without having to call a bet.
Freeze out: The games where the players involve continue play till one player has all the money from the pot.
Full house: Three cards of one rank and two of another. Such as three aces and two 10s is a full house.
Giving a hand away: To play your hand in such a manner that your opponent comes to know what you have.
Good game: The game where there are enough players worse than you for you to be a big favorite.
Gut shot: A draw to an inside straight. Also known as belly buster.
Hand: (1) Everything that occurs after the initial shuffling of the cards: the cards are dealt, the betting is completed, a winner is declared, and the pot is pushed. (2) The cards dealt to a player.
Heads-up: Playing against one rival.
High-Low: A game in which the highest and lowest hands split the pot.
High-low split: A part of poker where the best high hand and the best low hand in the showdown usually split the pot.
Hold’em: Also famous as Texas hold’em. The popular aspects in poker in which players uses five community cards in combination with their two hole cards to create the best five- card hand.
Hole Cards: These are the face-down cards dealt to each player in Omaha and Texas Hold’em.
Hourly rate: The player who expects to win the amount of money per hour on average.
Implied odds: The proportion of the total amount of money you desire to win if you make your hand to the bet you must now call to continue in the hand.
Inside straight: A straight which is made only with a card of one rank, usually somewhere in the middle of the straight. When you hold 6, 7, 9, 10 then only an 8 will make you a straight. Hence, you are drawing to an inside straight, or you have an inside-straight draw.
Jacks or better to open: In draw poker a player needs at least a pair of jacks to begin the betting.
Kicker: A side card, generally of a high rank. Someone having a 9, 9, A has a pair of 9s with an ace kicker.
Kill: A game in which a player may place an extra bet, causing the betting limits to go up for just that hand. The player posting the bet is the "killer", and the hand is considered a "kill pot". The player is said to have "killed the pot" for the amount of the "kill". If one player wins two pots in a row in a Kill Texas Hold'em game, he is required to kill by posting a blind small bet on the next hand, with the limits doubled for that hand.
Late position: A position on a round of betting in which you perform after all the players in the game have performed.
Lay the odds: To wager lot of money on a proposition than you expect to win.
Legitimate hand: A hand with a value but not the bluffing hand.
Limit: The amount a player may bet or raise on any round of betting.
Limit poker: A poker card game where maximum and minimum amounts that a player may bet or raise on any given round of betting are fixed.
Limit Stakes: Poker played with maximum bets and raises, which are established by the house rules.
Limp In: The calling of a forced bet as a blind or an ante when no one has yet raised.
Live card: A card which is not yet seen but assumed to be in the play.
Live one: A timid, loose and weak player who tends to loose more money in the pot. A rich sucker. There is a tale or just a mythological, about a poker game in Gardena in which one player had a heart attack and died. The player to his left cried to the floor man, “Hey, Louie, bring us a live one.
Lock: A cinch hand. A hand that cannot lose.
Long odds: The odds for an event that has a comparatively small chance of occurring.
Long shot: An event that has less chance of occurring. Therefore, in poker a hand that has less chance of being made.
Loose: To play more hands than the norm.
Main Pot: In Playwinpoker, this is a pot created when the player goes all-in. It is the pot available to those players not all-in at that point.
Middle position: A position on a round of betting at the center. In an eight-handed game, the fourth, fifth and sixth players to perform would be said to be in the middle position.
Move all-in: Betting all the money that one has on the table.
Muck: To "muck" your cards is to put them into the pile of discarded cards when folding.
No-limit poker: A poker game where the players may wager any amount of money whatever they have in hand on a particular given round.
Nuts: The best possible hand at any given position in a pot.
Odds: The chances, described mathematically, that an event will happen. Even in term of pot odds, the ratio of the size of the pot to the amount of the bet you must call to continue.
Off-suit: Not of the same suit.
Omaha: A flop game dealt similar to Texas Hold'em, but with four down-cards each. A hand is made using five from a possible nine, but two, and only two, must be used from the players hand.
On the come: To play a hand that has not still been made. For example: if you bet with four cards to a flush, you are betting on the come.
On tilt: To play worse than the original because, for any of the reason, you have become expressively worried.
Open: Making the first bet in a poker hand. This term is used mainly in draw poker.
Open-ended straight: Four cards to a straight that can be made with two different rank cards. Hence, 6, 7, 8, 9 is an open-ended straight that can be made either with a 5 or a 10. Suppose, 5, 7, 8, 9, J is also an open-ended straight where a 6 or a 10 can make your hand. The latter hand is also known as double belly buster.
Open-handed: Some cards in each player’s hand are exposed in some of the poker games such as seven-card stud or razz.
Out: Those cards that will improve your hand. Also, it is a way of improving your hand. It is used mainly in regards to hand which requires improving to the best hand.
Overcall: A call of a bet after another player has already called.
Overcard: A card greater than any card your rival is showing in stud games.
Pair: Two cards of the same ranking. Two sevens is a pair.
Pass: To check. Also, to fold.
Pat hand: A complete hand before the draw in draw poker games. A pat flush would be a five-card flush before the draw.
Pay-off: Calling a bet or a raise when you do not think you have the best hand.
Pay station: A player who calls bets and raises more than is correct. He is also regarded as a calling station. This kind is excellent when you have a legitimate hand, but he is simply impossible to bluff out of a pot. ;
Pocket: It is also termed as hole. Therefore, two aces in the pocket means two aces in the hole.
Position: The place in the order of betting in which a player is situated. A player in the first position would be the first person to perform; a player in last position would be the last person to perform.
Pocket Card: Your unique cards that only you can see. Texas Hold'em players tend to call them pocket cards.
Poker: A money-management game that employs cards for the purposes of manipulation and deception in order to win money.
Position: The relative situation of a player to the other players. There is early, middle and late position.
Positive expectation: The amount a wager can be expected to win on average. A play with positive expectation is a play where one wins all the money over a period of time.
Pot: The total sum of money wagered at any moment in a hand. A hand is also expressed as a pot. Therefore, three people in the pot means there are three active players playing the hand.
Pot-limit poker: A poker game where the players can bet or raise any amount up to the present size of the pot.
Pot odds: The ratio of the sum of money in the pot to the bet you must call to continue in the hand.
Pure nuts: The best possible hand. A, 2, 3, 4, 5 is the best hand in draw lowball. If in hold’em the board is A
7
8 K
4 a player is holding a 5, 6 have the pure nuts.
Put someone on a hand: Determining as best you can the hand (or hands) a rival is possibly to have.
Raise: Betting an additional amount after someone else has bet.
Raiser: A player who raises.
Rake: The money that the casino/house charges for each hand of poker. It is usually a percentage that is taken from the pot. (Refer Rake Structure)
Re-Buy: When you first sit down at a game, you buy in with a certain amount of money. "Re-buying" is when you buy more chips before you leave the game. Re-buys are permitted in some tournaments for players who fall below a certain point - usually, they are allowed to do this up until a specific sum of money, and they are often limited to a fixed number of re-buys. The time during which one may re-buy, usually lasting from the start through the early stages of the tournament, is called the "re-buy period". Tournaments with re-buys are called, generically, re-buy tournaments".
Represent: Making your rival believe that you have a bigger hand than you are showing on board. Hence, if in seven-card stud you raise with an ace showing, you are representing a pair of aces. You may really or may not really have a pair of aces.
Re-raise: To raise after a rival has raised.
Reverse implied odds: The percentage of the amount of money present in the pot to the amount of money you will have to call to continue from the present round to the end of the hand.
Ring Game:A regular game as opposed to a tournament. Also referred to as a "live game" since actual money is in play instead of tournament chips
River: The final card dealt in Texas Hold'em and Omaha
Rolled up: In seven-card stud game, three-of-a-kind on the first three cards.
Round of betting: The order of betting after one or more cards has been dealt. A round of betting continues till each active player has either folded or called.
Rough: A lowball hand that is not correct. Therefore, an 8, 4, 3, 2, A is a perfect eight. An 8, 7, 4, 2, A is regarded as rough eight.
Royal flush: An ace-high straight flush. A K Q J 10is a royal flush. Sandbag: Playing weakly with a strong hand. Check-raising or slow- playing with the most likely best hand.
Score: A great win.
Seat charge: In casino or in public card rooms, basically in California, & an hourly charge for playing poker game.
Semi-bluff: To bet with a hand which you possibly do not believe is the best hand but which has a fair chance of improving to the best hand.
Set: Three-of-a-kind. It is used especially in hold’em.
Short odds: The odds for an event that has a good chance of happening.
Short-stacked: To play in a game where only small number of chips are remaining.
Showdown: The giving up of all the active players’ cards at the end of the last round of betting seeing who has the best hand.
Side pot: A second pot for the other active players when one player is all-in.
Sit-In:; To join a game that has already begun.
Slowplay: To check or call a rival’s bet with a big hand so as to win more money on future rounds of betting.
Smooth Call: To call one or more bets with a hand that is strong enough for a raise.
Split-Pot: A pot which is shared by two or more players because they have equivalent hands.
Stake: The money with which a player enters a game.
Starting requirement: The minimum initial hand a player considers he requires continuing in a pot.
Start the action: To make the first bet in a given hand.
Steal: To make your rival fold when you actually do not have the best hand. This term is basically used with respect to stealing the antes – that means, raising on the first round of betting so that everyone else left in the pot folds.
Steam: To play worse because you are emotionally worried-especially playing more pots than you usually would when your hands do not justify it.
Straight: Five cards of mixed suits in order. 6 7 8 9
10 is a straight.
Straight flush: Five cards in a same suit in order. 6 7 8 9 10 is a straight flush.
Structure: The limits based on the ante, forced bets and subsequent bets and raises in any particular game.
Stuck: To lose money especially a large amount of money, in a given session or in the long run. We can say, “Sammy is stuck $1500 in the game.” That means Sammy has lost $1500.
Sucker: A player who is expected to lose money, especially one who is not as good as he thinks.
Suit: Any one of the four suits of cards: clubs, diamonds, hearts, or spades.
Suited: Two or more cards of the same suit.
Take the odds: To wager little money on a proposition than you desire to win.
Texas hold’em: It is a different name for hold’em.
Three-of-a-kind: Three cards of the same rank. 7 77 is a three-of-a-kind.
Three-flush: Three cards of the same suit.
Tie: Two hands of equal value. The pot is usually divided between tied winning hands.
Tight: Playing fewer hands than the norm.
Tight Player: Conservative: not playing many hands.
Tilt: Playing very poorly or wildly, usually after losing badly or winning big.
Trips: Three-of-a-kind.
Tough Player: A superior poker player.
Tournament: In a poker tournament, each player sits down with the same number of chips, and eventually only one player has all the chips in play. That is the basic idea behind a tournament. Each card room runs tournaments differently. Tournaments are usually played with chips that have no value outside of the tournament. So a buy-in of $30 might get you $500 in tournament chips to play with, but you cannot cash them out in the middle. The winner of a tournament (the last player remaining) as well as several of the other top finishers, are typically awarded prize money according to a predetermined scale.
Turn: The flop in hold’em. Also the fourth card in seven-card stud,and sometimes the fourth community card in hold’em.
Two flush: Two cards of the same suit.
Two-Pair: (1) A hand consisting of two sets of pairs and a singleton (2) A hand consisting of two cards of one rank, two cards of another rank, and an un-paired card. For example, KK992.
Underdog: In all the games of poker, before all the cards are out, a hand that does not have the best chance of winning.
Under the gun: The first person to perform on the early round of betting is under the gun. The player to the immediate left of the bettor on the later round of betting is also referred as under the gun.
Up: Hands such as aces up, kings up, and 5s up mean two pair with two aces, two kings or two 5s as highest of the two pair. The rank of the second pair is not significant unless the rival has a top pair of the same rank.
Up-card: A card that is dealt face up.
Value: Where a hand is worth in relation of its chances of being the best hand.
Wager: A bet.
Wheel: See Bicycle.
Wild card: A joker or any other card decided by the player in the game which can be used to represent any card required.
Wired pair: A pair in the hole.
World Series of Poker: A series of fifteen poker card tournaments with buy-ins to the extent of $10000, which is held each spring at the Horseshoe Casino in Las Vegas annually.The competition is basically located as the world premier competition among the expert poker players in the world.
Poker Tips
Taking “player notes” helps you when you play with your opponents again. Even if you aren't going to play with that player again, taking notes of the players makes it much easier to keep a mental track of how each player plays and what to expect from them. You should note if they are aggressive or passive, tight or loose, aggressive-tight, passive-tight, bluffs, etc.
Points to Remember while you play at the tables:
- Wait for the Big Blind and then get into the game:
- While waiting for the big blind, observe each player carefully and study their game pattern.
- Leaving the table at the right time:
- If you are losing money at the table, or if you are out played, just leave the table. Don’t think of getting your money back, or taking revenge of the player who has taken your chips
Hand Ranking
Hand Ranking
Pictured below are the hands of poker, listed in order from highest to lowest.
 | Royal Flush The five highest cards, the 10 through the Ace, all five of the same suit. A royal flush is actually an ace-high straight flush. Which suit it is doesn't matter in poker. Two people with royal flushes would tie. |
 | Straight Flush Any five cards of the same suit in consecutive numerical order. Our example shows a five-high straight flush. |
 | Four of a Kind Four cards of the same denomination. Our example shows four jacks with a deuce kicker. |
 | Full House Any three cards of the same denomination, plus any pair of a different denomination. Ties are broken first by the three of a kind, then the pair. Our example shows sevens full of threes. |
 | Flush Any five non-consecutive cards of the same suit. Our example shows a queen-high diamond flush. |
 | Straight Any five consecutive cards of mixed suits. Ace can be high or low. Our example shows a six-to-ten straight. |
 | Three of a Kind Three cards of the same denomination. Our example displays three of kind, fours. |
 | Two Pair Any two cards of the same denomination, plus any other two cards of the same denomination. If both hands have the same high pair, the second pair wins. If both pairs tie, the high card wins. Our example shows two pair, eights and fives. |
 | Pair Any two cards of the same denomination. Our example displays a pair of nines. In a tie, the high card wins. |
 | High Card If no other hand is achieved, the highest card held wins. In our example, the king of hearts is the high card. |
Basic Rules of Texas Hold'em
- Player is seated at the table with a minimum buy-in. There should be at least 2 players at the table to start a game. One player acts as a dealer and the dealer button rotates clockwise after every hand.
- The two players to the left of the dealer are the small and big blind, respectively. They post small and big blinds.
- Cards are dealt to each player. These cards are known as hole or pocket cards.
- The first betting round begins with the player sitting immediately to the left of the big blind, and continues clockwise. Betting takes place on the basis of the players hand strength before the first three community cards i.e. “Flop” is dealt.
- When the first betting round is completed, three community cards are flipped face up on the table. This is called the flop.
- After the Flop the second round of betting begins with the first remaining player seated to the left of the button. The betting resumes, clockwise.
- After the second betting round, a fourth community card is flipped face up on the table. This is called the turn.
- The third betting round begins with the first remaining player sitting to the left of the button. The betting moves clockwise, with the bets doubling on the turn.
- When the third round of betting is over, a fifth community card is flipped face up on the table. This is called the river.
- The final betting round takes place with the first remaining player seated to the left of the button. The betting continues to move clockwise.
- After completing all the four betting rounds there is a showdown of cards and the player with the best five card winning hand wins the pot.
HOW TO PLAY TEXAS HOLD’EM
Welcome to the Playwinpoker Free Poker Training School
During this poker training you will be taught to learn how to play Texas Hold’em, Omaha and Omaha Hi/Lo. Amongst which Texas Hold’em is world’s most popular five card game played all over the world.
To play these games, you need a lot of skills, strategies and experience and only practice will make you a better pro player. However, poker is a lifetime study to master on.
DECK OF CARDS
A pack of cards is called a deck. It consists of 52 cards, which are divided into a group of 13 cards, and each group is of a particular suit. The highest card in a deck starts with an Ace following with King, Queen, Jack, 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3 and 2. There are four suits – Spades, Hearts, Diamonds and Clubs.
Texas Hold’em is a five card game wherein the players need to bet in certain amount and the player with the best five card hand wins the pot. Poker is usually played with 10 players but can also be played with minimum two players. Before starting the game there are some terms that you need to know:
1. BUY-INS
One should buy-in a minimum amount of chips when sitting down at the table. The minimum buy-in limit is equal to ten times the lower bet limit of the game. For example in a $10-$20 table the minimum buy-in is $100 and in the $20-$40 table, the minimum buy-in is $200.
In short, buy-in is the amount with which you sit at the table.
2. STAKES
Stake is limit of the game. It gives a fair idea of the minimum and the maximum betting that could take place at the table. Stakes are divided into three:
- Fixed Limit – In fixed limit, the betting take place within the given stake.
- Pot Limit – In pot limit, the maximum bet is the size of the pot.
- No Limit – In no-limit, there is a limit on betting. The player can bet in all the chips he has on the table.
3. DEALER BUTTON
A small round disk placed on the table is known as dealer button. After each hand, the dealer button shifts to the left. Dealer button is used to indicate where the cards are to be dealt from.
4. BLINDS
Blinds are the required bet that starts the action in the first round of poker hand. They are compulsory bets that the players have to make before seeing their hole (pocket) cards. The player left to the dealer button post the small blind and the player left to the small blind post the big blinds. Blinds are put in by players seated immediately to the left of the button.
- Small Blind – Small blind is the player who sits left to the dealer. Small blind is equal to half of the minimum bet (e.g. in a $10-$20 table, small blind is $5 i.e. half of $10 which is the minimum bet).
- Big Blind - Big blind is the player who sits left to the small blind. The big blind has to put in the amount of the minimum bet (e.g. in a $10-$20 table, big blind is $10 which is the minimum bet).
5. HOLE (POCKET) CARDS
After placing the big blind, each player active on the table is dealt with two personal hole (pocket) cards face down which only the respective player can see. After seeing the hole cards, the player gets the fair idea of making his winning hand.
6. COMMUNITY CARDS (BOARD)
Community cards are the cards placed at the center of the table face up. They are divided into 3 categories.
- Flop: The first three cards dealt at the table.
- Turn: The card after the flop.
- River: The last and final card at the table.
7. BET : Bet is the amount, which is voluntarily put into the pot by the player.
8. CALL : Call is the amount needed to equal the biggest bet on the table.
9. RAISE : Raise is the amount to increase the previous bet.
10. CHECK : Check is to abstain from betting. In simple words, the player does not have to put any money into the pot.
11. FOLD : Fold is to withdraw from further participation in the current hand.
12. ALL-IN : The players can go "all-in" when they bet all their remaining chips or money. They can go all-in either by compulsion or by wish. Side pot is created for the players going all-in.
13. SHOWDOWN : At the end of the fourth betting round, showdown of cards takes place wherein the active players show their best five card hand and that decides the winner.
