Terms Starting with T
terms are listed in alphabetical order
T.J. Cloutier is a legend
of professional tournament poker with six World 🏵 Series of Poker bracelets and has
authored many popular poker theory books. (read more)
As a Poker Term, 'table' means to
🏵 turn your cards faceup at an appropriate time during a poker hand. Of course it may
also refer to a 🏵 piece of furniture. (read more)
The table captain is someone at a live
poker table who uses his table presence to 🏵 create a psychologically intimidating
dynamic; also can refer to a rules nit. (read more)
The table coach is the guy at 🏵 your
table who is constantly commenting on various aspects of game play and game dynamics
during the poker table. (read 🏵 more)
Table Draw is an aspect of a poker tournament that
indicates the randomized collection of opponents you are first seated 🏵 with. (read
more)
Table image describes the way poker players view each other while playing poker.
Though it plays a role 🏵 in online poker, it is more relevant to the live form. (read
more)
A table mod is a graphical change done 🏵 by a third party to a poker site's
software to enhance the artwork or layout of the table or lobby. 🏵 (read more)
Table
presence is a concept closely related to 'table image' and describes the aura a poker
player emits at 🏵 the poker table. (read more)
Table Selection refers to when a poker
player picks a specific table that appears the softest 🏵 among the ones available to
play. (read more)
Table Stakes is a fundamental function of poker that requires players
to play 🏵 for the amount of money on the table. (read more)
Table talk refers to any
discussion that takes place throughout the 🏵 process of playing poker at a poker table.
It is related to 'coffeehousing.' (read more)
TableNinja is a hotkey utility for
🏵 PokerStars that allows for customizable betting, checking, calling and folding in
addition to other automated tasks. (read more)
TAG stands for 🏵 'tight and aggressive'
and it is the opposite of 'LAG.' In most poker scenarios, TAG is considered the ideal
style 🏵 to employ. (read more)
A TAGfish is a tight aggressive player who plays very
standard poker which is easily exploitable by 🏵 good players. (read more)
The Taj Mahal
is a casino in Atlantic City that was once the hub for the majority 🏵 of the poker action
in that gambling destination. (read more)
Takeover is the nickname for Nick Schulman, a
high stakes poker 🏵 player and Full Tilt Red Pro, who is proficient in cash games and
tournaments. (read more)
Tank refers to the process 🏵 of being lost in deep thought in
the middle of a poker hand, or the time one takes to make 🏵 a difficult decision. (read
more)
Tao of Poker is a blog written by Paul McGuire that covers goinigs-on in the
poker 🏵 world; it is considered one of the best blogs in the industry. (read
more)
Tapping the glass refers to the counter-intuitive 🏵 approach that frustrated
players use to vent, educating weaker players in the process. (read more)
Taylor Caby
is one of the 🏵 co-founders of Cardrunners, one of the first and most well-established
poker training websites. (read more)
TBH is a rather grating acronym 🏵 used by poker
players. It means 'to be honest' and is usually used in a redundant or irritating way.
(read 🏵 more)
The TDA, or Tournament Directors Association, was founded in 2001 by Matt
Savage, David Lamb, Linda Johnson and Jan Fisher. 🏵 (read more)
Team PokerStars Online
was created at the end of 2009 to create a group of sponsored pros that were 🏵 well known
for their online playing abilities. (read more)
Ted Forrest is a professional poker
player who has won five WSOP 🏵 bracelets and is considered one of the best Stud players
in the world. (read more)
Telegraph is a specific type of 🏵 poker tell in which a player
who hasn't acted yet gives a clear physical indication of what he intends to 🏵 do. (read
more)
A tell is an indication of hand strength unintentionally given off by an
opponent, including physical tells and 🏵 verbal tells. (read more)
Ten-eight-cious is a
term recently coined by Bill Edler to describe the hand T8 (a ten and 🏵 an eight),
particularly when the hand wins. (read more)
Tennis is a classic sport that has
relatively little do with poker 🏵 other than the fact that some very accomplished poker
players began as tennis experts. (read more)
Texas Dolly is a nickname 🏵 given to famous
poker player Doyle Brunson. (read more)
Texas hold 'em has been the most popular form
of poker since 🏵 the 'poker boom' began around the year 2002. It is played with two hole
cards and five board cards. (read 🏵 more)
Texture refers to the composition of a board in
Hold 'Em or Omaha. Terms like 'ragged' or 'coordinated' refer to 🏵 board textures. (read
more)
'That Is My Child' is a famous reponse by a poker player named 'dnaperf' when
another player 🏵 compared her daughter to a dog. (read more)
The Big Little Tournament is
aR$2.20 tournament on Full Tilt Poker that boasts 🏵 aR$200,000 prize pool guarantee.
(read more)
The Biggest Game in Town is one of the most loved journalistic examinations
of the 🏵 poker world, focusing on famous poker players at the World Series of Poker.
(read more)
The Cincinnati Kid stars Steve McQueen 🏵 as a young hotshot poker player
taking on the established legend played by Edward G. Robinson. (read more)
The Flamingo
Kid 🏵 is a movie released in 1984 that centers around the goings on at an East Coast
beach resort, with a 🏵 heavy focus on the card game gin. (read more)
The Gambler may
refer to a quintessential poker song by Kenny Rogers, 🏵 a movie starring James Caan, or a
novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky. (read more)
The Gladiator is a promotion for March of 🏵 2010
at PartyPoker which awards entry into a freeroll and bonus cash. (read more)
The Grand
is a 2007 movie directed 🏵 by Zak Penn that uses the mockumentary format to depict a high
stakes poker tournament in Las Vegas. (read more)
The 🏵 Mirage was at one point the hub
for poker action in Las Vegas before the Bellagio opened. The Mirage's place 🏵 in history
was immortalized in Rounders. (read more)
The Psychology of Poker was written by Alan
Schoonmaker and covers motives and 🏵 mental attributes of poker players. (read more)
The
Rhino, a shortened term for 'Spearmint Rhino,' is one of the most recognized 🏵 names
worldwide for strip clubs and a place where Vegas poker players hang out. (read
more)
The Strip refers to the 🏵 Las Vegas Strip, which is otherwise known as Las Vegas
Boulevard, home to many casinos and poker rooms. (read more)
The 🏵 Sunday Brawl is a
poker tournament that begins every Sunday at 14:00 EST on Full Tilt Poker. It is
aR$240+16 🏵 buyin knockout-style tournament. (read more)
The Sunday Mulligan is a popular
once-a-week tournament on Full Tilt Poker which takes place every 🏵 Sunday night at 19:05
ET. (read more)
The Super Tuesday is a weekly poker tournament that takes place on
PokerStars, with 🏵 a buyin ofR$1,000. It generally attracts 300-400 players. (read
more)
The System is an ultra-simplified strategy for beginners playing in a 🏵 big
tournament, designed by David Sklansky for the daughter of an acquaintance. (read
more)
The Venetian is a popular poker room 🏵 in Las Vegas. (read more)
The worst day of
the year is a famous expression to describe the day when a 🏵 poker player busts out of
the World Series of Poker main event. (read more)
The Theory of Poker by David Sklansky
🏵 was first published in 1987 and remains the seminal work on the topic, describing many
basic poker concepts. (read more)
thepokerdb, 🏵 co-created by Nat Arem, is the oldest and
most well-regarded website for tracking results of online poker tournaments. (read
more)
Thin 🏵 is a poker adjective to describe a type of value bet that was not clear cut,
rather made in the 🏵 hopes your opponent has a 2nd-best hand he can't fold. (read
more)
Third street is mostly a stud poker term to 🏵 indicate the action or conditions
present after the first three cards are dealt. Less commonly it refers to a flop. 🏵 (read
more)
Thomas Fuller is a professional poker player based out of colorado, who
specializes in NL cash games and tournaments. 🏵 He is also known for his blog. (read
more)
Thorladen is the nickname for Steve Weinstein, a highly talented bridge player
🏵 who is also quite accomplished in both live and online poker. (read more)
Three-betting
is a bit of poker slang that 🏵 is often used as a substitute for 're-raise,' becauseit is
useful for distinguishing itself from further raises. (read more)
TID is 🏵 an online
poker acronym that stands for 'take it down,' a statemenet uttered in the spirit of
encouragement from one 🏵 player to another. (read more)
Tiffany Michelle is an actress
who formerly was a well known interviewer for Poker News and 🏵 finished 17th in the WSOP
Main Event of 2008. (read more)
Tight refers to a style of play that is the 🏵 opposite of
'loose.' Tight play usually entails selective standards for betting and raising. (read
more)
Tilt describes a player who acts 🏵 irrationally after losing a big pot. Going on
tilt can mean a player is overtly angry or just playing abnormally. 🏵 (read more)
Time
banks are a feature built into online poker sites that allocate a certain amount of
time for decision 🏵 making during poker hands. (read more)
Time Collections are used in
lieu of rake in certain highstakes poker games. Players pay 🏵 a fixed amount every half
hour instead of having each pot raked. (read more)
Titan Poker is one of the largest
🏵 online poker rooms in the market, and they have some of the best sign-up bonuses
available. (read more)
tl;dr is an 🏵 acronym used by forum posters after someone makes a
really long post that would have taken them a long time 🏵 to read. (read more)
The TLB,
or Tournament Leader Board, is a ranking system that tracks poker tournament results on
the 🏵 online poker site PokerStars. (read more)
Tmay420, aka Tim West, is a professional
poker player from California. He was once the 🏵 No.1 ranked online player and has
overR$800K in live tournament results. (read more)
A toke is a tip paid to the 🏵 dealer
after winning a hand in poker. (read more)
Tokwiro Enterprises is a private company
that is headquartered in Kahnawake Mohake 🏵 Territory. The company owns Absolute Poker
and UB. (read more)
Tom Dwan, better known as durrrr, is an online pro poker 🏵 player and
known as one of the best in the world. (read more)
Tom Marchese is known as
kingsofcards on PokerStars 🏵 and is a high stakes cash game player who won the 2010 NAPT
Venetian Main Event. (read more)
Tom McEvoy is 🏵 a four time WSOP bracelet winner and the
1983 Main Event winner who has made overR$2,700,000 in live tournament winnings. 🏵 (read
more)
Tommy Angelo is a professional poker player and noted coach to many high stakes
player, as well as the 🏵 author of Elements of Poker. (read more)
There are many software
assistance poker tools in existence. These tools can help you 🏵 play better and win more
money playing online poker. (read more)
Holding top and bottom pair means pairing your
hole cards 🏵 with the highest and lowest ranked cards on the board. Also called top and
botton pair. (read more)
Top heavy is 🏵 a term used to describe the proprotion for the
distribution of prizes in a poker tournament, in which most of 🏵 the money is given to
the top spots. (read more)
A person has top pair when one of their hole cards 🏵 matches
the highest card on the board. Flopping top pair means this happens on the flop. (read
more)
The top section 🏵 is the area portioned off in a poker room where the room's
highest stakes games take place. Most casino poker 🏵 rooms feature a top section. (read
more)
A player holds top set when he makes three of a kind using the 🏵 highest-ranked
card on the board. Flopping top set means this happens on the flop. (read more)
Jamie
Gold told his opponent 🏵 that he had 'top top,' top pair, top kicker, during his run at
the 2006 World Series of Poker title. 🏵 (read more)
A player has top two pair when his
hole cards match the highest ranked and second highest ranked cards 🏵 on the board in
poker. It's slang for top two pair. (read more)
To enter a poker tournament, a player
must 🏵 pay a buy-in. They may rebuy and add-on if the tournament's structure allows for
it. The opposite of a cash 🏵 game. (read more)
Tournament Directors (TDs) are responsible
for organizing poker tournaments. This is often a full time, casino-based job, but
🏵 there are also itinterant TDs. (read more)
Some tournament players cringe when they
hear the term 'tournament life' while others base 🏵 their entire game around the concept.
(read more)
The Tournament of Champions is a World Series of Poker Event where only
🏵 Main Event champions can play. (read more)
Tournament Poker and the Art of War is a
book by David Apostolico about 🏵 using Sun Tzu philosophy while playing tournament poker.
(read more)
The acronym TPGK stands for Top Pair Good Kicker (read more)
Typically 🏵 used
on a forum, TPNK is an acronym for 'Top Pair No Kicker'. (read more)
TPTK means 'top
pair, top kicker' 🏵 and indicates a hold 'em hand in which a person has paired the
highest card on board and has an 🏵 ace kicker. (read more)
The Treasure Island Hotel and
Casino offers a small but well decorated poker room that regularly runs 🏵 No Limit Holdem
games. (read more)
When you 'pull the trigger' in poker, you are usually bluffing on a
later street. 🏵 It is another war-related poker term, related to 'bullet' and
'ammunition.' (read more)
Triple draw (TD) is a form of poker 🏵 in which players have
three opportunities to draw to the best possible hand. Badugi and 2-7 are the most
common 🏵 TD games. (read more)
Trips is poker slang for three of a kind. It's also called
a set. Trips is a 🏵 powerful hand, except when players run into set over set situations.
(read more)
Turbo is a term generally used to designate 🏵 a poker tournament in which the
blinds increase at a faster pace than what is usually standard for a similar 🏵 event,
(read more)
The turn is the fourth community card dealt in Texas Hold'em or Omaha. It
comes after the flop 🏵 and before the river and is also called fourth street. (read
more)
Turning Stone Resort and Casino is located in Verona, 🏵 NY. Its primary fame as a
poker venue centers around the ability for players 18 years and older to play. 🏵 (read
more)
Two Plus Two Publishing, also known as '2+2' or '2p2' is a popular online poker
site among the poker 🏵 community. 2+2 began as a publishing company. (read more)
The
acronym TYVM stands for Thank You Very Much and is often 🏵 typed at online poker tables
when trying to induce tilt into an opponent. (read more)
