Poker Terms - Poker Dictionary - Letter B

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• Baby - A small card, usually a five or less.
• Backdoor - Catching both the turn and river card to make a drawing hand. For example, if you have As- 7s. The flop comes Ad-6c-4s. You bet and are called. The turn is the Ts, which everybody checks, and then the river is the Js. You've made a "backdoor" nut flush.
• Back-in - To win by default or unexpectedly.
• Backer - A nonplayer who finances an active player.
• Backraise - A reraise. To make a minimum raise to avoid a larger raise.
• Back-to-back - A pair on the first two cards dealt in stud (Backed Up).
• Bait-A small bet that encourages a raise.
• Bank - Where the money from purchased chips is kept.
• Banker - The person responsible for selling and cashing chips.
• Bank Night - High-low five-card stud with two twists.
• Barn - A full house.
• Barracuda - A tough player.
• Baseball - A stud game involving nines and threes as wild cards.
• Beans - Chips.
• Bear - A tight player.
• Beat the Board (Table) - To have a hand better than all others showing.
• Beat Your Neighbor - A five-card game that requires each player in turn to expose his cards until his hand beats the board.
• Bedsprings - Similar to Cincinnati except ten cards are dealt face-up for use in everyone's hand.
• Belly-Buster Straight - An inside straight.
• Belly Hit - When a draw fills an inside straight (Gut Shot).
• Belly Strippers - Cards with slightly trimmed edges that taper from a wider center to the ends (Humps).
• Best Flush-A game in which only flushes win the pot.
• Bet Into-To bet before another player who apparently has a better hand.
• Bet or Get-A rule that one must either bet or fold with no checking allowed (Bet or Drop, Passout).
• Bet the Limit-To bet the maximum amount allowed.
• Bet the Pot-To bet an amount equal to the pot.
• Bet the Raise-The maximum bet being twice that of the previous bet or raise.
• Betting Interval-The period from the first bet to the last call in any given round.
• Betting Pace-The degree, extent, and aggressiveness of bets and raises.
• Betting Stakes-The dollar limits of all bets and raises permitted.
• Betting Ratios-The differences in maximum bets allowed with each round of betting.
• Betty Hutton-Seven-card stud with nines and fives wild.
• Bicycle-A straight to the five . . . ace, two, three, four, five (Wheel).
• Bid-To declare for high or low in split-pot poker.
• Big Bill-A hundred dollars or a thousand dollars.
• Big Blind-The final and largest blind bet.
• Big Bobtail-A four-card straight flush.
• Big Cat-Five unpaired cards from the king to the eight.
• Big Dog-(1) Five unpaired cards from ace to nine. (2) A big underdog.
• Big Full-The highest possible full house.
• Big One-A thousand dollars.
• Big Slick-any Ace-King combination pocket cards.
• Big Squeeze-Six-card high-low stud with one twist.
• Big Tiger-See Big Cat.
• Bill-A dollar or a hundred dollars.
• Bird Dog-One who gets players for a game.
• Blaze-A five-card hand containing five picture cards.
• Blaze Full-A full house in picture cards.
• Bleed-To slowly bleed money from a game or a player.
• Bleeder-A tight, winning player.
Blind-A mandatory or forced bet before the deal by the first player to the dealer's left.
• Blind Bet-To bet before looking at one's hand.
• Blind Low-Five-card stud bet blind all the way to the last bet.
• Blind Open-An opening bet made without looking at one's cards.
• Blind Shuffle-A cheater's shuffle used to stack cards or to leave stacked cards undisturbed after shuffling (False Shuffle).
• Blind Tiger-Draw poker with a blind open and a blind raise (Open Blind and Straddle).
• Block System-An ante, open, and first raise automatically done in the blind by the dealer.
• Blood Poker-A higher-stake poker game played primarily for money rather than for social reasons.
• Blow Back-A raise after previously calling or checking.
• Bluff-The attempt to win a pot by making better hands fold. In other words, you bet a weak hand with the hope of making your opponents fold.
• Blur Intensity-The lightness or darkness of printing visible on partially flashed cards, indicating a high or a low card.
Board-(1) The poker table. (2) All face-up cards in stud or hold 'em. Boat-Full House
• Bobtail Flush or Straight-A four-card flush or a four-card, open-end straight.
• Bolt-To fold.
• Bone-A white chip, the lowest denomination chip.
• Bonus-A fixed sum established by house rules that is paid by each player to the holder of a very high-value hand such as a straight flush (Premium, Royalty, Penalties).
• Book-A three-card draw.
• Boost-To raise.
• Border Work-Markings added by cheaters to the printed borderlines of cards to identify their value.
• Bottom Deal-To deal cards off the bottom of the deck when cheating.
• Bouillotte-A French card game that influenced the open-card stud variation in poker.
• Boxed Card-A card turned the wrong way in a deck.
• Boy-A jack.
• Brag-The betting expression in the English game of Bragg.
• Bragg-An English three-card game that influenced the use of the full fifty-two-card deck in poker.
• Braggers-Jacks and nines as wild cards. Or the ace of diamonds, the jack of clubs, and the nine of diamonds as wild cards.
• Brandeln-A card game similar to Commerce.
• Breakers-Openers.
• Breathe-To pass the first opportunities to bet.
• Brelen-(1) A French card game that influenced the use of straights and flushes in poker. (2) Three of a kind.
• Brelen Carre-Four of a kind.
• Brief-A single stripper card in a deck used to facilitate illegal cuts.
• Buck-(1) A marker used to designate the dealer. (2) A marker or a knife used to designate the player permitted to deal a special hand, usually a hand with a dealer advantage such as draw. (3) A dollar.
• Buddy Poker-To avoid betting against a friend or a partner.
• Buffalo-To fool opponents.
• Bug-(1) The joker used in high-hand poker as an ace or as a wild card for filling straights and flushes. A wild card in lowball. Can be used in high-low as both a high card and a low card in the same hand (Joker). (2) A device fastened beneath the poker table by a cheater to hold out a card or cards.
• Bull-A player who raises frequently.
• Bull or Bullet-An ace.
• Bull Montana-Five-card stud with betting, then jacks required to open the final bet.
• Bull the Game-To bluff or bet aggressively.
• Bump-A raise.
• Buried Card-A card randomly inserted in the deck.
• Burn-(1) A full house. (2) To lose a hand. (3) Deal a burn card.
• Burned, Burnt, or Burn Card- (1) An exposed card put face-up on the bottom of the deck (2) A card dealt face down into the discards.
• Busted Hand-(1) A worthless hand (Bust). (2) A hand that failed to fill a straight or a flush on the draw.
• Busy Card-Any card that completes a hand.
• Butcher Boy-An open-hand form of poker where four of a kind is needed to win.
• Button-(1) A marker used to signify a theoretical dealer when there is a house dealer. (2) A second or third pair.
• Buy-(1) To call bets in order to draw cards. (2) To bluff someone out.
• Buy In-The stack of chips that a player buys at the start of a game.
• By Me-An expression meaning to pass or check.

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