Poker Glossary

Must know

nh – Nice hand
vnh – Very nice hand
gg – Good going
lol – Laugh out loud
ty – Thank you

Poker Glossary

0-9 and symbols
-EV – Negative Expected Value
~$7 – Around $7 or about $7
+EV – Positive Expected Value
3-bet – A bet, a raise, and then another raise. The third action is a 3-bet
4b – Four bet
6-Max – 6 players per table
6m – 6-max
7SFAP – Seven Card Stud For Advanced Players (book)
9To – Nine Ten offsuit

A-C

ABS – Absolute Poker (online poker site)
AC – Atlantic City
AF – Aggression factor
AFAIK – As far As I know
Aggro – Aggressive
AI – All in
AINEC – And it’s not even close
AIPF – All-in pre flop
AKQJT – Ace, King, Queen, Jack, Ten
AP – Absolute Poker (online poker site)
ATC – Any two cards
Ax – An Ace with any second card

B&M – Bricks & Mortar: Playing at a poker club or casino as opposed to online
B/c – Bet and call a raise
B/f – Bet and fold to a raise
B3b – Hero’s plan is to bet, and then 3-bet if raised.
BB – Big Bet or big blind (depends on usage)
BB/100 – Big Bets per 100 hands (standard measure of win rate)
BBL – Be Back Later
BBV – Brags, Beats & Variance
BBV4L – Brags, Beats & Variance For Life
BI – Buy-in
BI – Bring In
Blocking bet – Often a river bet made OOP when an obvious draw hits on the end, where you bet and fold to a raise
BR – Bank Roll
BRB – Be Right Back
BTW – By The Way
BWDIK – But What Do I Know

C-bet – Continuation bet
C/c – Check and then call any bet
C/f – Check and then fold to a raise
C/r – Check and then raise
CB – Continuation bet
CC – Check check
Check behind – To check when it’s been checked to you, usually after betting action on previous street
CK – Check
CO – Cut off, player one seat to the right of button
CP – CardPlayer (magazine)
CTH – Computer & Technical Help

D-E

DoN – Double or Nothing. A form of STT where half the players are paid and get double their money back (less the rake).
Donk – Short for ”donkey”. Donkey is an insult, equivalent to stupid, idiot, moron, etc.
Donkbet – Either to lead into the PFR on the flop, or a tiny bet made in relation to the pot
DP – Draw poker
Effective stack – The smallest stack amongst the players remaining in the hand.
eg – Example
EOM – End Of Message – often put at the end of the subject if a post has no content
EP – Early Position
EV – Expected Value

FAQ – Frequently Asked Questions
FE – Fold Equity
FH – Full House
FL – Fixed Limit
Float – You call a bet with a marginal hand or draw, usually on the flop while in position, with the intent of stealing the pot on a later street.
FOG – Fair Online Gambling, online casino games.
FPP – Frequent Player Points
FPS – Fancy Play Syndrome
FR – Full ring (9 or 10 players per table)
FT – Full table
FT – Full Tilt
FT – Final Table
FTP – Full Tilt Poker (online poker site)
FW – Foxwoods Casino
FWIW – For What It’s Worth
FYI – For Your Information
FYP – Fixed Your Post

G-I

GG – Good Game
GL – Good Luck
GLK – Good Luck
Goot – Good
Grunch – To post a responce in a thread without reading any of the existing replies so your opinion is not affected by other people’s posts.
GT+ – Gametime Plus (software)
GTD – Guaranteed $1m GTD would be a tournament where prize money of over $1m was guaranteed
Gutshot – An inside straight draw

HE – Hold ‘Em
HFAP – Hold’em For Advanced Players (book)
HH – Hand History
HJ – Hijack, player two seats to the right of button
HL – High limit games
HoH – Harrington on Hold ‘Em (book)
HORSE – A game that rotates through H – Holdem, O – Omaha hi/lo 8-or-better, R – Razz, S – Stud (hi only), E – Eight-or-better Stud hi/lo (all limit)
HP – Hollywood Park Casino
HSNL – High Stakes No Limt
HTH – Head To Head
HU – Heads Up
HUD – Heads Up Display. Software which displays opponent’s stats on your table.

ICM – Independent Chip Model
IFYW – If You Wish
IGHN – I Go Home Now
IIRC – If I Remember Correctly
IMHO – In My Humble Opinion
IMO – In My Opinion
ISD – Inside Straight Draw
ITM – In The Money
ITT – In This Thread
IWTSYH – I Want To See Your Hand
IYAM – If You Ask Me

J-K

JAT – Just A Thought
JMO – Just my opinion
KJs – King Jack suited
Kxx – Refers to a King high flop

LAG – Loose aggressive (player)
LAP – Loose passive (player)
LC – Low Content
LDO – LOL, Duh, Obviously or Like Duh, Obviously
Level – To outsmart, as in this clip: Battle of Wits. Also used when someone falls for a joke or is gullible.
LHE – Limit Hold ‘Em
LL – Lower Limit games
LMAO – Laughing My A** Off (available with numerous variations)
LO8 – Limit Omaha Hi-Lo
LOL – Laughing Out Loud, Lots of Luck, etc
LP – Late Position

Meh – The sound you make when you shrug your shoulders signaling indifference; not great, not terrible.
MGR – Monthly Gross Revenue
MHIG – My Hand Is Good
MHING – My Hand Is No Good
Minraise – Raising the lowest amount possible
ML – Middle Limit Games
MM – Mason Malmuth
Monotone – A flop of all the same suit
Moran – Moron (this is a deliberate mispelling – an in joke)
MP – Middle position
MSNL – Mid Stakes No Limit
MTT – Multi Table Tournament

NC – No Content
NH – Nice Hand
Nit – A player who plays too conservatively, plays too few hands, is weak-tight.
Nit – A person who is overly concerned with rules and precision. Compulsively corrects minor errors. Enforces the letter of the law rather than the spirit of the law. Is quick to be offended by minor slights, usually someone of stern disposition. Also often an implication of miserliness
NL100 – Number indicates the buy-in; this is No Limit, with $1 BB’s
NLHE – No limit hold ‘em
NSFW – Not Safe For Work
NT – Nice Try
NT – No Text in post
NVG – News, Views & Gossip

o – Offsuited – K7o would be a King & 7 of different suits
O8 – Omaha Hi-Lo
OESD – Open Ended Straight Draw
OESFD – Open Ended Straight Flush Draw
OMG – Oh My God!
OOP – Out of position
OOT – Other Other Topics
OOTM – Out Of The Money
OP – Original Poster
OPP – Opponent
OT – Off Topic
OTB – On The Button
OTOH – On The Other Hand
Overbet – A bet amount larger than the current pot
Overpair – Having a pair in your hand higher than the biggest card on the board
OWA’s – One Word Answers

PA – PokerAce Heads Up Display (software)
PAHUD – PokerAce Heads Up Display (software)
PAHWM – Play A Hand With Me
PF – Pre Flop
PFF – Poker for free. Like these free poker deals.
PFR – Preflop raise or preflop raiser
PL – Pot Limit
PLO – Pot Limit Omaha
PLO8 – Pot Limit Omaha Hi-Lo
PM – Private Message
PO – Poker Ofiice
Pot control – Attempting to keep the pot small with a marginal holding
POTD – Post of the Day
POTM – Post of the Month
POTW – Post of the Week
POTY – Post of the Year
POV – Point of View
PP – Party Poker (online poker site)
PP – Pocket Pair
PPM – Party Poker Million tournament
PS – Poker Stars (online poker site)
PSB – Pot Sized Bet
PSR – Pot Sized Raise
PT – Poker Tracker
PTBB/100 – poker tracker big blinds won per 100 hands played. A PTBB is 2xBB.
PTL – Player To My Left
PTR – Player To My Right
Pwned – Owned or powned. Usually means you got outplayed.

Q-R

Q73r – r = rainbow flop
QFT – Quoted For Truth
QOPTW – Question Of Playing This Way
QOTPW – Question Of This Player’s Win

R – Rainbow flop
R – Rebuy $11+R would an $11 tournament with rebuys available
R+A – Rebuy & AddOns $11+R would an $11 tournament with rebuys & add ons available
Rainbow – A flop of all different suits
RB – Rakeback
Reraise – Raising the PFR
RGP – Rec.gambling.poker – a long running Usenet group, now available as a forum
RIO – Reverse Implied Odds
ROFL – Rolling on the floor laughing with numerous variations
ROI – Return on investment

S – Suited – K7s would be a King & 7 of the same suit
SB – Small Blind or Small Bet depending on how it is used in sentence.
Sc – Suited connector
SD – Standard Deviation
Semi-bluff – Betting/raising when you have a draw.
Set – Flop is K42, you hold 44, you have a set
SH – Shorthanded
sLAG – Slightly loose aggressive
SNG – Sit ‘n’ Go tournament
SNGPT – Sit-n-Go Power Tools
Spew – To expel chips with great force, as if vomiting uncontrollably (to play really badly in such a way as to cause the loss of a lot of chips quickly).
SS – Short Stack
SSNL – Small Stakes No Limit
Stars – Poker Stars (online poker site)
Stealing blinds – Open raising in late position with less than premium hands in order to take the blinds.
STFU – Shut The **** Up
Stop-n-Go – You bet, get raised, you call closing the action on that street, then lead out on the next street.
STT – Single table tournament
STTF – Single table tournament forum

T$ – Tournament dollars, which can be used on a particular site to buy into tournaments
T&C – Terms & Conditions
TAG – Tight aggressive player
TC – Terms & Conditions
Thin value bet – Usually a river bet made when it’s unclear if you are ahead or not
TL;DR – Too long; didn’t read
TOP/FTOP – Fundamental Theorem Of Poker
TP2K – Top pair 2nd best kicker–You have KQ, flop K72, you have top pair, 2nd best kicker (the Q)
TPBK – Top pair bad kicker
TPBK – Top pair best kicker
TPCK – Top pair crap kicker
TPGK – Top Pair Good Kicker
TPNK – Top Pair No Kicker
TPTK – Top pair top kicker
TPWK – Top Pair Weak Kicker
TR – Trip Report
Trips – Flop is JJ8, you hold KJ, you have trips
TTH – Turbo Texas HE
TTHRIC – This Thread Has Run Its Course
TWIMC – To Whom It May Concern
TY – Thank You

U-Z

UB – Ultimate Bet (online poker site)
UI – Unimproved
uNL – Micro No Limit
UTG – Under the Gun, first player to act preflop
UTG – Under the gun, first position, to the left of the big blind
UTG+1 – Under the Gun plus one, second player to act preflop
UTG+1 – To the left of UTG
VB – Value Bet
Villian is 24/10/3(98) – Pokertracker stats indicating VPIP/PFR%/AF (with preflop aggression taken out) over 98 hands
VNH – Very Nice Hand
VPIP – Voluntarily put money in the pot
W$ – Poker Stars Tournament dollars which can be used to buy into Poker Stars tournaments
WA/WB – Way Ahead or Way Behind
WCOOP – World Championship of Online Poker – series of high buy in tournaments held on Poker Stars
WGAF – Who Gives A Flute
WGAFF – Who Gives A Flying Fig
WPT – World Poker Tour
WSOP – World Series Of Poker
WSOPME – World Series Of Poker Main Event
WTF – Huh?, What the ****
X-post – Cross-post. A post made in more than one forum at one time
YMMV – Your mileage may vary

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