P

Paints

Face or picture cards (Jack, Queen, King)

Pair

Two cards of the same rank.

Pass

To fold

Pay Off

To call on the final round of betting when you may or may not think you have the best hand.

Picture Cards

Face cards (Jacks, Queens, Kings)

Play Back

To raise or re-raise another player's bet.

Playing the Board

In flop games when your best five card hand is all five of the community cards.

Pocket

The down cards or hole cards.

Pocket Rockets

A pair of Aces in the pocket or hole.

Position

Where a player is seated in relation to the dealer, therefore establishing that player's place in the betting order.

Post

When you post a bet, you place your chips in the pot.

Pot

The money or chips in the center of a table that players try to win.

Pot Limit

This is a game where the maximum bet can equal the pot.

Prop

A player being payed by the cardroom to start new tables, and keep tables active so that there is a better selection of games available for other players.

Push

When the dealer pushes the chips to the winning player at the end of a hand. It's also when dealers rotate to other tables.

Put Down

To fold a hand.

Put On

To judge an opponents hand to be something is to be "putting" him on a hand.

Q

Quads

four of a kind.

Qualfier

In High-Low games, it is a requirement the Low hand must meet to win the pot.

R

Rack

A tray the holds 100 poker chips in five stacks of twenty chips each.

Rags

bad cards.

Rail

The rim of a poker table or a barrier outside the poker area.

Railbird

Someone who hangs around a poker room and watches the games and/or is looking to get into the action.

Rainbow

A flop where no two cards are of the same suit. This prevents an immediate flush draw. Can also refer to a complete board that leaves no possible flush.

Raise

To increase the previous bet.

Rake

Chips taken from the pot by the cardroom as compensation for hosting the game.

Rank

The value of each card and hand.

Rap

When a player knocks on the table indicating they have checked.

Razz

Seven Card Stud where the lowest five cards win the pot.

Re-Buy

The amount of money a player pays to add a fixed number of chips to their stack in a tournament.

Re-raise

To raise a raise.

Ring Game

A "live" game that is not a tournament.

River

This is the last card given in all games. In Hold'em and Omaha it is also known as fifth street. In Stud games, it is also known as 7th street.

Rounder

a player that earns a living player poker by making the "rounds" from game to game.

Round of Betting

This is when players have the opportunity to bet, check, or raise. Each round of betting ends when the last bet or raise has been called.

Royal Flush

A hand consisting of Ace-King-Queen-Jack-Ten of the same suit.

Running Cards

(or runner-runner)

getting two necessary cards to make a hand, instead of one card. For example, the last two cards dealt are clubs to make a flush, it is said that hand was a runner-runner flush.