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Rabbit hunting - Scanning through the undealt deck of cards.
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Rack - A tray that holds 100 poker chips in five stacks of twenty chips each.
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Rag - In Stud poker, when a player is dealt a card that does not help the hand at all. For example, being one card away from a Flush and being dealt a card of a different suit that does not even pair up with any cards currently held.
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Ragged - A flop that doesn’t appear to help anybody very much.
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Rail - The rim of a poker table or a barrier outside a poker area.
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Railbird - Someone who hangs around a poker room who watches the games and/or is looking to get into action.
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Railroad Bible - A deck of cards.
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Rainbow - A hand containing at least one card of all four suits. The nemesis of a Flush.
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Raise - To increase the previous bet.
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Raise blind - To raise without looking at one’s cards.
A forced raise.
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Rake - Chips taken from the pot by the cardroom for compensation for hosting the game.
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Rank - The value of each card and hand.
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Rap - When a player knocks on the table indicating that he/she has checked.
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Ratholing - The illegal action of taking money off the table and putting it somewhere else.
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Razz - 7 Card Stud where the lowest five cards win the pot.
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Reading - Analysis of a player based on how they play, mannerisms, and tells.
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Real money games - Online games that use real money.
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Rebuy period - The period of time during a rebuy tournament in which players can buy more chips when they go broke.
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Rebuy - The amount of money a player pays to add a fixed number of chips to his/her stack in a tournament.
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Redeal - To deal a hand again, possibly after a misdeal.
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Redraw - To make one hand and have a draw for a better hand. Ted made a straight on the turn with a redraw for a flush on the river.. Second or later draws in a draw game with multiple draws.
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Red - The color of poker chip most often used to represent the middle denomination of money, typically two times the table’s ante and/or minimum bet.
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Reload bonus - A bonus released for existing online poker room players (as opposed to first-time depositors).
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Reopen the betting - Make a raise that permits those who have already made bets or raises again to have the option of folding, calling, or raising, in a situation in which opting not to raise ends the betting for that round.
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Representing - Based on evidence that other players can see (face-up cards in Stud, community cards in Hold .Em), a player is said to .represent. a certain hand based on the way he is betting. He may or may not actually have the hand that he is representing.
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Re-raise - To raise a raise.
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Reverse bridge order - Clubs, diamonds, hearts, spades. This order comes into play when determining which player must make the bring-in in seven-card stud when two or more players have the same rank of upcard on the first round.
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Ribbon clerk - A small time gambler.
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Riffle - To shuffle one.s chips. River (a) In Hold .Em, the last community card turned face-up; (b) more loosely in Stud, the last card dealt face-down to each player.
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Right Price - When you are getting exactly the right pot odds on the money you have put in the pot or exactly the right odds on the money you may have to invest.
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Ring Game - A 'live' game that is not a tournament.
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River - This is the last card given in all games. In Hold'em and Omaha, it is also known as 5th street. In Stud games, it is also known as 7th street.
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Rivered, To be - A player who loses a hand to another player who completed a better hand on the last card of the round (the River) is said to have been "rivered".
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Rock - A passive, tight player.
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Roll - To turn a card face up.
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Rolled up - In seven-card stud, being dealt three of a kind in the first three cards.
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Rotation - Clockwise movement in direction of the dealer. The action sequence in which every player deals a poker hand.
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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.
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Rounders - Guys who hustle for a living. This is also the name of a popular poker movie starring Matt Damon and Ed Norton.
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Royal Flush - This is an Ace high straight (A-K-Q-J-10) of the same suit. It is the best possible hand in poker.
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Royal cards - Royal card are also known as face cards. These cards consist of the Jack, Queen, and King of any suit.
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Runner-runner : A hand made by hitting two consecutive cards on the turn and river. Also "backdoor". Compare to "bad beat" and "suck out".
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Run - The act of playing with more money than is typical or reasonable.
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Run a pot - Winning a hand by bluffing throughout a hand, implying more than one bet.
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Running bad - A losing streak.
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Running good - A winning streak.
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Running pair - When the last two cards on the board are a pair.
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Rush - A winning streak.
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