Paint Cards
King, Queen and Jack; face cards; court cards; picture cards.
Paints
Face or picture cards (Jack, Queen and King).
Pair
Two cards of the same denomination.
Pass
Fold.
Pat Hand
A hand that is played as dealt, without changing a card; usually a straight, flush or full house.
Pay Off
To call a bet where the bettor is representing a hand that you can't beat, but the pot is sufficiently large to justify a call anyway. Example: 'He played it exactly like he made the flush, but I had top set so I paid him off.'
Pay Station
A player who calls bets and raises much more than is typical; a calling station.
Picked Off
To get called when you are bluffing.
Picture Cards
King, Queen and Jack; face cards; court cards; paint cards.
Pineapple
A variation of Holdem except players are dealt three hole cards and must discard one.
Pip
The suit symbols on a non-court card, indicating its rank.
Play Back
To raise or re-raise an opponent's bet.
Play Fast
Aggressively betting a drawing hand to get full value for it if you make it.
Play the Board
To show down a hand in holdem when your cards don't make a hand any better than is shown on the board. For instance, if you have 22, and the board is 4-4-9-9-A (no flush possible), then you must 'play the board' - the best possible hand you can make
Play With
Staying in the hand by betting, calling, raising, or re-raising.
Playing the Board
In flop games, if your best five card hand uses the five community cards.
Pocket Cards
The face down cards dealt to each player at the start of each hand. Also called Hole Cards.
Pocket Rockets
A pair of Aces dealt as hole cards.
Pocket
Your unique cards that only you can see. For instance, 'He had pocket sixes' (a pair of sixes), or 'I had ace-king in the pocket.'
Position Bet
A bet made relying on the strength of one's position rather than on the strength of one's hand. If no one opens, a player on the button in Texas Holdem is in good position to steal the pot, due to his position.
Position
Your place at the table, relative to the order of betting within a betting round. The first few players to act are in early position, the next few in middle position, and the last few in late position. There is an advantage to being in late position,
Post Now
This is a choice given to new Players joining a game. They can either post now or wait for the big blind bet. If they decide to post now, they bet the equivalent of a big blind bet and receive cards immediately.
A poker structure in which the maximum bet or raise is the size of the pot.
For raises, the size of the pot includes the call, so if the pot is $100 and
player A bets $100, player B can throw $400 out for a maximum raise (calling
the $100 and then rai
Pot
The money gathered in the middle of the table from blinds, bets, and raises. This money goes to the winner, or winners as the case may be. If you have not yet folded, you are 'in the pot.'
Pre-Flop
Before the flop, such as raising pre-flop.
Prop
Short for proposition player; similar to a shill, but plays with his own money.
Proposition Player
A cardroom employee who joins a game with his own money when the game is shorthanded, or to get a game started; similar to a shill.
Protect A Hand
To protect a hand is to bet so as to reduce the chances of anyone outdrawing you by getting them to fold.
Protect Your Cards
To protect your cards is to place a chip or some other small object on top of them so that they don't accidentally get mucked by the dealer, mixed with another player's discards, or otherwise become dead when you'd like to play them.
Provider
A player who makes the game profitable for the other players at the table; a nicer term for a fish.
Push
When the hand is finished and a winner is determined, the dealer pushes the chips towards the winner.
Put Down
Fold.
Put Him On
To guess an opponent's hand and play accordingly.
Putting On The Heat
Pressuring your opponents with aggressive betting strategies to get the most
value from your hand.
Pay Off
To call a bet where the bettor is representing a hand that you can't beat, but
the pot is sufficiently large to justify a call anyway. Example: "He played
it exactly like he made the flush, but I had top set so I paid him off."
Play the Board
To show down a hand in hold'em when your cards don't make a hand any better than
is shown on the board. For instance, if you have 22, and the board is 4-4-9-9-A
(no flush possible), then you must "play the board" - the best possible
hand you can make doesn't use any of your cards. Note that if you play the board,
the best you can do is to split the pot with all remaining players.
Pocket
Your unique cards that only you can see. For instance, "He had pocket sixes"
(a pair of sixes), or "I had ace-king in the pocket."
Post
To put in a blind bet, generally required when you first sit down in a cardroom
game. You may also be required to post a blind if you change seats at the table
in a way that moves you away from the blinds.
Pot Limit
A version of poker in which a player may bet up to the amount of money in the
pot whenever it is his turn to act. Like no-limit, this is a very different game
from limit poker.
Pot Odds
The amount of money in the pot compared to the amount you must put in the pot
to continue playing. For example, suppose there is $60 in the pot. Somebody bets
$6, so the pot now contains $66. It costs you $6 to call, so your pot odds are
11:1. If your chance of having the best hand is at least one out of twelve, you
should call. Pot odds also apply to draws. For instance, suppose you have a draw
to the nut flush with one card left to come. In this case, you are about a 4:1
underdog to make your flush. If it costs you $8 to call the bet, then there must
be about $32 in the pot (including the most recent bet) to make your call correct.
Price
The pot odds you are getting for a draw or call. Example: "The pot was laying
me a high enough price, so I stayed in with my gutshot straight draw.
Protect
(1) To keep your hand or a chip on your cards. This prevents them from
being fouled by a discarded hand, or accidentally mucked by the dealer.
(2) To invest more money in a pot so blind money that you've already put
in isn't "wasted." Example: "He'll always protect his blinds, no
matter how bad his cards are."
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