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| Texas Holdem Termins for Letter "S" |
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Sandbag: To check a strong hand with the intention of raising or re-raising.
Satellite: A small-stakes tournament whose winner obtains cheap entry into a bigger
tournament.
Scare Card: An up card that looks as though it might have made a strong hand.
School: The players in a regular game.
Scoop: To win the entire pot.
Seat Charge: In public cardrooms, an hourly fee for playing poker.
Second Pair: In flop games, pairing the second highest card on board.
See: To call.
Semi-Bluff: To bet with a hand which isn't the best hand, but which has a reasonable
chance of improving.
Set: Three of a kind; trips (usually applies to a pair in hand and a matching card on
board).
Seventh Street: The final betting round on the last card in Seven-Card Stud.
Shill: A cardroom employee, often an off-duty dealer, who plays with house money to
make up a game.
Shootout: A tournament format in which a single player ends up with the entire prize
money, or in which play continues at each table until only one player remains.
Short Odds: The odds for an event that has a good chance of occurring.
Short-Stacked: Having only a small number of chips left.
Show One, Show All: A rule that says if a player shows their cards to anyone at the
table they can be asked to show everyone else.
Showdown: The point at the end of the final round of betting when all the remaining
player's cards are turned up to see which player has won the pot.
Side Card: An unmatched card that may determine the winner between two otherwise
equal hands.
Side Pot: A separate pot contested by other players when one player is all-in.
Sixth Street: In Seven-Card Stud, the fourth round of betting on the sixth card.
Slow Play: Disguising the value of a strong hand by underbetting, to trick an opponent.
Slowroll: To reveal one's hand slowly at showdown, one card at a time, to heighten the
drama.
Small Blind: The smaller of the two compulsory bets in flop games, made by the
player in the first position to the dealer's left.
Smooth: The best possible low hand with a particular high card.
Smooth Call: To call rather than raise an opponent's bet.
Snap Off: To beat another player, often a bluffer, and usually without a powerful hand.
Speed: The level of aggressiveness with which you play.
Fast play is more aggressive,
slow play is more passive.
Splash The Pot: To throw your chips into the pot, instead of placing them in front of
you.
This makes it difficult for the dealer to determine the amount you bet.
Split: A tie.
Spread: When a cardroom starts a table for a particular game, it is said to spread that
game.
If you want to know what games are played in a particular place, you can ask
what they spread.
Spread Limit: Betting limits in which there is a fixed minimum and maximum bet for
each betting round.
Stack: The pile of chips in front of a player.
Stand Pat: To decline an opportunity to draw cards.
Stand-Off: A tie, in which the players divide the pot equally.
Stay: To remain in a hand with a call rather than a raise.
Steal: A bluff in late position, attempting to steal the pot from a table of apparently
weak hands.
Steel Wheel: In lowball, a straight flush, five high (Ace-2-3-4-5).
Straddle: To make a blind raise before the deal; big blind.
Straight: Five consecutive cards of mixed suits.
Straight Flush: Five consecutive cards of the same suit.
Streak: A run of good or bad cards.
String Bet: An illegal bet in which a player puts some chips in the pot, then reaches
back to his stack for more, without having first verbally stated the full amount of his
bet.
Structure: The limits set upon the ante, forced bets and subsequent bets and raises in
any given game.
Stuck: Slang for losing, often a substantial amount of money.
Stud: Any form of poker in which the first card or cards are dealt down, or in the hole,
followed by several open, or face up, cards.
Suck Out: To win a hand by hitting a very weak draw, often with poor pot odds.
Suited: Cards of the same suit.
Sweat: To watch a player from the rail.
Sweeten: The Pot Slang for raise.
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