Poker Terms listed Alphabetically. Letters P - R

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Poker terms listed alphabetically. Letters P through R listed in Wikipedia Encyclopedia.

paint
The face cards, Jacks, Queens, and Kings, in a deck. In Texas hold'em, a flop can be said to be "all paint" if it consists of only these cards. This is also called a "Picasso Flop".
pair
See one pair

passive
A style of play characterized by checking and calling. Compare to "aggressive", "loose", "tight".

pat
Already complete. A hand is a pat hand when, for example, a flush comes on the first five cards dealt in Draw poker. Also see made hand.

pay off
To call a bet when you are most likely drawing dead because the pot odds justify the call.

perfect
The best possible cards, in a lowball hand, after those already named. For example, 7-perfect would be 7-4-3-2-A, and 8-6-perfect would be 8-6-3-2-A.
Picasso flop
Slang for "paint". See Flop Slang.
pick-up
When the house picks up cash from the dealer after a player buys chips.
pigeon
A bad player. Also "donkey", "fish".

play the board
In games such as Texas Hold 'Em, where 5 community cards are delt, if your best hand is on the board and you go to the showdown you are said to "play the board".

play twice
See deal twice.

pocket pair
In community card poker or stud poker, when two of a player's private cards make a pair. Also "wired pair".

poker face
A blank face that does not reveal anything about the cards being held. Often used metaphorically outside the world of poker.
position
See position (poker).

position bet
A bet that is made more due to the strength of the bettor's position than the strength of the bettor's cards.

post
To make the required small or big blind bet in Texas Hold 'em or other games played with blinds rather than antes

post dead
To post a bet amount equal to the small and the big blind combined (the amount of the large blind playing as a live blind, and the amount of the small blind as dead money). In games played with blinds, a player who steps away from the table and misses his turn for the blinds must either post dead or wait for the big blind to re-enter the game. Compare to "dead blind".
post oak bluff
See post oak bluff.
pot
See pot (poker).

pot-committed
More often in the context of a no limit game; the situation where you can no longer fold because the size of the pot is so large compared to the size of your stack.
pot limit
See pot limit.
pot odds
See pot odds.

price
See pot odds. "The price was right for me to call."

probe bet
A bet after the flop by a player who did not take the lead in betting before the flop (and when the player that did take the lead in betting before the flop declined to act). Compare to "continuation bet".
proposition player, prop
A player that gets paid an hourly rate to start poker games or to help them stay active. Prop players play with their own money, which distinguishes them from shills, who play with the casino's money.
protect, protection
See protection (poker).

push
To put yourself all-in.
put the clock (on someone)
See call the clock.

put on
To put someone on a hand is to deduce what hand the have based on their actions and your knowledge of their gameplay. See also tells.

Q

quads
Four of a kind.

qualifier, qualifying low
A qualifying low hand. High-low split games often require a minimum hand value, such as 8-high, in order to award the low half of the pot.

quarter
To win a quarter of a pot, usually by tying the low or high hand of a high-low split game. Generally, this is an unwanted outcome, as it seldom wins enough money to cover the amount bet during the hand.

R

rabbit hunt
After a hand is over, a rabbit hunt means to reveal the last card that would have come up in a community card game with a fixed number of cards. Such activity is usually prohibited in casinos.
rack
1. A collection of 100 chips of the same denomination, usually arranged in 5 stacks in a plastic tray.
2. A plastic tray used for storing a rack of chips.

ragged
In community card poker games, if the community cards are likely to be of little or no use to anyone, they are said to be ragged.

rags
Worthless (or apparently worthless) cards. Most often refers to small cards in high-hand games, while high cards in low games are more often called "bricks" or "bombs". Also "blank".
rail
The rail is the sideline at a poker table - the (often imaginary) rail separating spectators from the field of play. Watching from the rail means watching a poker game as a spectator. People on the rail are sometimes called railbirds.

rainbow
Three or four cards of different suits, especially said of a flop.

raise
See raise.
rake
See rake (poker). Also "juice", "vig", "vigorish".

rakeback
Rebate/repayment to a player of a portion of the rake paid by that player, normally from a non-cardroom, third-party source such as an affiliate. Rakeback is paid in many ways by online poker rooms, affiliates or brick and mortar rooms. Many use direct money payments for online poker play. Brick and Mortar rooms usually use comp cards to track and pay their rakeback.
ram and jam
To aggressively bet, raise, and reraise.

ratholing
To "go south".

rebuy
An amount of chips purchased after the buy-in.
redeal
To deal a hand again, possibly after a misdeal.
redraw
To make one hand and have a draw for a better hand. Ted made a straight on the turn with a redraw for a flush on the river..
Second or later draws in a draw game with multiple draws.

represent
To represent a hand is to play as if you hold it (whether you actually hold it or are bluffing).

reraise
Raise after one has been raised. Also coming "over the top".
ring game
See ring game.
river
See river (poker).
river rat
A player whose hand was dominated from the start, but improves his hand on the river to win the pot. See "suck out".
rock
A very tight player (plays very few hands and only continues with strong hands).
A bundle of chips held together with a rubber band, or other token signifying an obligatory live straddle. If the player under the gun has the rock, he must use it to post a live straddle. The winner of the pot collects the rock and is obligated to use it in turn.
rolled-up trips
In seven-card stud, three of a kind dealt in the first three cards.
rounder
See rounder.
runner
A tournament entrant, a contestant.

runner-runner
A hand made by hitting two consecutive cards on the turn and river. Also "backdoor". Compare to "bad beat" and "suck out".
rush
Winning streak. A player who has won several big pots recently is said to be on a rush.