Poker slang

Passive: A player who bets and raises infrequently.

Pay off: Calling a bet when you think you are unlikely to have the best hand, but have a chance to catch a bluff.

Pot-limit: The players may bet any amount between the size of the big blind and the size of the pot.

Quads: Four of a kind.

Sandbag: To check and then raise a bet from a later position.

Shark: A good strong player taking a lot of money from poorer players.

Showdown: After all betting rounds are completed, when two or more players show their hands and determine the winner of the pot.

Slowplaying: Playing meekly with a hand on one betting round in order to allow players to make second-best hands so that you can win more from them on later betting rounds.

Tight: Players who fold most of their hands and wait for premium cards to get involved in a pot, and will fold if the action indicates they are beaten.

Tilt: When a player is not playing her best game because of factors such as desperation to get even, or suffering a bad beat, where the players mind gets in the way of her game.

Trips: Three of a kind.

Wired: Starting with a pair in the hole in stud or hold 'em. Three of a kind in seven-stud is also known as 'wired trips'.