Poker Terms - Poker Dictionary - Letter A

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• Aces Up - A pair of aces with one other pair.
• Action - The betting, opportunity to act. In the case when a player appears to not realize it's his turn, the dealer will say, "Your action, sir."
• Action Spot - The table area where the betting is occurring.
• Active Player - A player competing for a pot.
• Add-them-up Lowball - Draw poker where the hand with the lowest point total wins.
• Advanced Concept Player - A player whose style is based on Advanced Concepts of Poker. (A-C Player).
• Advanced Poker Concepts - Concepts used by a poker player to win maximum money from opponents.
• Advertise - To have a bluff called in order to encourage opponents to call later.
• A-game - The highest stake game in the house.
• Age - First position to the left of the dealer (A, Able, or Edge).
• Agent - A confederate or collusion partner in cheating.
• Alien Card - A card not belonging to the deck in play.
• Alive Card - See Live Card.
• All Blue, or All Pink - A flush.
• All-In - The betting by a player of all his money on the table. To run out of chips while betting or calling. In table stakes games, a player may not go into his pocket for more money during a hand. If he runs out, a side pot is created in which he has no interest. However, he can still win the pot for which he had the chips. Example: "Poor Bob - he made quads against the big full house, but he was all-in on the second bet."
• All the Way - Cincinnati with a progressive bet.
• Alternate Straight - A sequence of every other card, such as two, four, six, eight, ten (Dutch Straight, Skipper, Skip Straight).
• Ambique - A French card game that influenced the draw variation of poker.
• American Brag - A game where the raiser shows the first caller his hand and the worst hand folds.
• Anaconda - A seven-card game with bets made on five rolled-up cards.
• Announce - To declare high, low, or the moon in high-low poker.
• Announced Bet - A verbal bet made by a player before putting his money in the pot.
• Ante - Money put in the pot before dealing. This seeds the pot at the beginning of a poker hand. Hold'em games do not have an ante; they use "blinds" to get initial money into the pot.
• A Priori Odds - The probability that an event will occur.
• Arkansas Flush - A four flush.
• Around the Corner Straight - A sequence running from the highest to the lowest values, such as queen, king, ace, two, three.
• Âs Nas - A Persian card game from which poker was directly derived.
• Assigned Bettor - The player who bets first.
• Australian Poker - Draw poker with a blind opening.
• Automatic Bluff - A lowball situation that almost always requires a bluff.

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