Fold

Giving up your hand and any claim to the pot. Folded cards go face down to the dealer; you cannot get them back. Folding when you are behind is where most of the money in poker is saved.

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Action

Any bet, raise, call, check or fold a player makes; also used for a game with lots of betting ("a great action…

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Betting every chip you have in front of you. You can't be forced out of the hand after that, but you can only …

Check

Passing the action to the next player without betting, which is only allowed if nobody has bet yet on that rou…

Cold 4-bet

A 4-bet made by a player who has not yet put money in the pot — someone behind both the opener and the 3-betto…

Cold call

Calling a raise (or a re-raise) without having put any money into the pot yet in that round. Cold-calling a 3-…

Four-bet (4-bet)

A re-raise of a three-bet. Four-bet pots are large and usually decided pre-flop or on the flop; the range doin…

Limp

Entering the pot pre-flop by just calling the big blind instead of raising. Open-limping is generally weak; li…

Min-raise

The smallest legal raise: at least the size of the previous bet or raise. A min-raise on the flop or turn, esp…