Poker Terms - Poker Dictionary - Letters U, V, W, X, Y, Z

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U

• Uncle Doc-Five-card stud with a single spit or table card and all like it as wild.
• Undercut-(1) The final down card being the lowest hole card in low-hole stud. (2) A shuffling technique for preparing a stacked deck. Especially useful for preparing two stacked hands simultaneously.
• Under the Gun-The position of the first bettor.
• Unlimited Poker-Poker in which no limit is placed on bets or raises.
• Up-(1) The ace of anteing. (2) The higher of two pair- e.g., queens and tens is queens up.
• Up Cards-The face-up cards in stud (Open Cards).
• Up the Creek-A game in which split-whiskered kings are wild.
• Utah-See Cincinnati.

V

• Valet-A jack.
• V8 Ford Special-Thirteen-card stud with five cards to each player and eight table cards in a V formation, with one side of the V played for high and the other side played for low.
• Vigorish-The amount taken by the house for running a game.

W

• Walk the Table-The automatic winning of the entire pot with a certain specific card or hand.
• Wash-To Shuffle.
• Waving-Coiling or crimping cards by a cheater so the wavy card can be spotted in an opponent's hand or in the deck.
• Weary Willie-See Elimination.
• Wedges-Certain tapered or shaved cards that can be pulled from a deck when needed by the cheater.
• Welcher-A player who fails to pay a debt.
• Whangedoodle-A round of jackpots played after a big hand such as four of a kind.
• Wheel-See Bicycle.
• Whipsaw-To bet and raise aggressively on both sides of a calling player. (Squeezed Player).
• Whiskey Poker-Draw poker with widow cards that can be exchanged from one's hand.
• Whore-A queen.
• Widow-(1) A card or cards common to all hands (Spit Card). (2) The money cut from pots (Kitty).
• Wild Annie-See Double-Barreled Shotgun.
• Wild Card-A card changeable to any value or suit desired by its holder.
• Wild Game-(1) A game using wild cards. (2) A highly spirited or fast-paced game.
• Wild Widow-A card turned up for use as a wild card (with all similar cards being wild) in every player's hand (Spit Card).
• Window-The card exposed or flashed at the end of a player's closed hand.
• Window Dressing-A card purposely flashed from one's closed hand.
• Wing-To have a winning streak.
• Wired (Back-to-Back)-A pair, trips, or four of a kind dealt consecutively or back-to-back in a hand ... usually in a stud hand starting with the first card.
• Woolworth-A game in which all fives and tens are wild.
• World Series of Poker-A Hold 'em tournament held every May at Binion's Horseshoe Casino in Las Vegas.

X

• X Marks the Spot-See Crisscross.

Y

• You Roll Two-See New Guinea Stud.

Z

• Z-Game-The lowest-stake game in the house.

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