Poker Glossary of Terms

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Pay Off - To call a bet where the bettor is representing a hand that you can't beat, but the pot is sufficiently large to justify a call anyway.

Play the Board - Using all five community cards for your hand.

Pocket - Cards dealt to you face down, as in the Texas Holdem and Omaha poker.

Post - To put in a blind bet, generally required when you first sit down in a cardroom game.

Pot - The area where antes, bets, and raises are placed.

Pot Limit - A version of poker in which a player may bet up to the amount of money in the pot whenever it is his turn to act.

Pot Odds - The amount of money it will cost you to call a bet according to ratio of the amount of money in the pot.

Protect - (1) To keep your hand or a chip on your cards. (2) To make a bet so as to reduce the chances of others outdrawing you by forcing them to fold.