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Poker Lexicon - Poker Terms Beginning With 'P'
Paints - Face or picture cards (Jack, Queen and King).
Pair - Two cards of the same face or number value.
Pass - To fold.
Passive -An opponent who rarely raises – as opposed to aggressive.
Pat - Not drawing any cards in a draw card game.
Pay station - A game where players can bet as much as they like on any round of betting.
Pay Off - To call on the final round of betting when you may or may not think you have the best hand.
Pegging - A cheater’s techniques to mark cards with a device (ex. a fingernail).
Penny ante - A very low-stake game.
Picked off - To get called when you’re bluffing.
Picture Cards - Face cards (Jack, Queen and King).
Pigeon - An inexperienced and/or easy player.
Pineapple Hold’em - A hold’em variation involving three hole cards and discarding one.
Pips - The spots or marks on the face of a card.
Play Back - To raise or re-raise another player's bet.
Play hand - To bet aggressively on a hand.
Play over - To play in a seat when it’s occupant is away.
Played card - A card dealt into a hand.
Playing the Board - In flop games, when your best five card hand is all five of the community cards.
Player Note dialog - A dialog box into which you can enter player notes.
Player notes - Information you can enter about a player into a dialog box. You can then see those notes by hovering your cursor over the player or by bringing up the Player Note dialog.
Players Window - The window in the lobby that shows information about the seated players in the game highlighted in the Games Window.
Plays for you - An expression that describes the chips of your blind. When you have a blind, you have an investment in the pot, and, when it is your turn to act, you have already contribute part or all of the bet. For example, in a $2/$4 hold'em game, if you have the big blind, you put $2 into the pot prior to receiving your cards. If anyone opens for the minimum, $2, when the action gets to you, you do not have to add anything to the pot unless you wish to raise. If the bet is $4 because there has been a raise, you can get in for $2 less because of that $2 you already have invested.
Pocket - The down cards or hole cards.
Pocket Cards - The two cards dealt to you at the beginning of a Hold'em hand that no one else is entitled to see.
Pocket pair - Two cards of the same value in your starting hand, such as 9-9.
Pocket Rockets - A pair of Aces in the pocket or hole.
Point - The value of a card.
Poker room - A place where poker players play; cardroom.
Poker table - (a) A table used in brick and mortar cardrooms especially for the play of poker. Most poker tables have a felt cover. Poker tables for draw or stud games generally accommodate eight players, with an extra place for the house dealer, if there is one. Poker tables for hold'em games can accommodate as many as 12 or 13 players, although nine or 10 is more common. (b) In an online cardroom, the virtual representation of the preceding. (c) Any table on which to play poker. In home games, this can be the kitchen table, or a fancy table with seven or eight places having recessed chip racks and drink holders at each position. (d) A table in a casino devoted to poker (as opposed to, say, a blackjack table).
Position - Where a player is seated in relation to the dealer, therefore establishing that player's place in the betting order.
Post - If you miss the blind, then you must ‘post’ - add as many chips as were in the blind itself.
Pot -The money or chips in the center of a table that players try to win.
Pot control - The practice of controlling (or attempting to control) the size of a pot with betting.
Pot Limit - This is a game where the maximum bet can equal the pot.
Pot odds - A way of working out the value of making a poker bet. It’s the ratio between the amount of money in the pot and the amount of money required to bet to stay in the hand.
Preflop - Pertaining to the bet or situation before the flop.
Premium hands - The best possible hands.
Presto (a) In hold'em, two fives as one's first two cards. (b) Two fives in any game.
Price of poker - What it costs to play, usually with reference to the increase of blinds in a tournament, sometimes as a remark accompanying a raise. When the blinds increase (usually only at a point that their size is significant compared to the stacks of most players), someone providing running commentary on the tournament might say, "The price of poker just went up". When someone makes a significant raise in a big-bet game, you might also hear that comment.
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."
Private game - A poker game played elsewhere than in a public cardroom. Also called home game. Sometimes private game has a wider application, because a private game could be played in other than someone's home (for example, in a hotel room). Compare with public game.
Professor, The - Nickname of Howard Lederer.
Proposing bets - Side bets between players that are not related to the outcome of the hand.
Prop - A person hired by the cardroom to work as a shill.
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."
Public cardroom - A cardroom that has public games.
Public game - A game played in a poker room, one that is open to anyone who wishes to play. Compare with private game.
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.
Puppy feet/pups - A club flush or just a suit of clubs.
Put Down - To fold a hand.
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Putting on the heat - To bet aggressively, thereby putting pressure on the other players.
Play money - Virtual money, as opposed to real money. Play money has no value. Play money games are places for players to practice their online skills before moving to real money games.
Play money games - Online games that use play money.
Play the board - In determining the winning hand in hold'em, sometimes the board contains some combination better than any hand that can be made using any player's hole cards. When players form their best hand using no hole cards, this is called playing the board. When all players play the board, the pot is split equally among all players remaining in the hand at that point. For example, with an ace-high straight of three different suits on the board, it would be impossible for any player to produce a five-card combination better than an ace-high straight. If three players remained, the software would split the pot equally among the three because they would all be playing the board. This situation also arises when no player can form a hand better than what is on the board, even if such a hand is possible. For example, if the board is As Ah Ks Kh Qd, and the two remaining players have 9s 9d and Ts Td, each would play the board, even though any player holding any ace, king, queen, or the hand J-10, would have them beat. Any of those hands would beat either player, but since none is out, the two players play the board and split the pot.
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