Pai Gow Poker Glossary

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Bankroll - total amount of money the player can gamble with.

Back Hand: the five card hand in Pai Gow Poker.

Bet - Wager.

Betting Limits - is the minimum or maximum amounts you can wager on one bet.
Bug - The Joker.

Copy - In Pai Gow Poker this is when the player and the Dealer have the same hand. Dealer wins all copies.

Flush - is a hand where all cards are of the same suit.

Four of a Kind - four cards of the same denomination or of the same rank, also known as quads.

Front Hand – two card hand in Pai Gow Poker.

Full House - is a hand consisting of a three of a kind and a pair.

Hand - is the cards that you hold, also a player's best five cards. A hand is also everything that happens between shuffles - cards are dealt, betting is done, a winner is declared, and the pot is pushed.

High Roller - is a big bettor or a person who likes to play for large stakes, or in the biggest games.

Joker - the 53rd card in a deck of cards sometimes used as a wild card.

Odds - ratio of probabilities of either winning a hand or losing the hand.

Push - in stud pass an offered card to the left or to bet too often or too much also to Split a pot and a split pot.

Rank - this is usually the value of the card as opposed to the actual suit of the card.

Royal Flush - is the ace high straight flush, this is the best poker hand to have.

Run - is a straight or a series of good hands.

Set - in Pai Gow this is where the players set their hands in two separate hands of five cards and two cards each, in Hold’em and stud is a three of a kind, or a set of four of a kind.

Straight - is a hand that consists of 5 cards in sequence but not in the suit.

Straight Flush - is a hand that consists of 5 cards in sequence of the same suit.

Suit - this is the 4 types of cards such as Clubs, Diamonds, Hearts and Spades.

Three of a Kind - this is where a player holds three cards of the same suit.

Two Pair - this is when a player has a hand consisting of two sets of pairs and a single card.

Wild Card - this is a joker or standard card that can be used to represent any card desired.

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