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Baby | A small card.
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Back Door Flush (or Straight) | When the last two cards make a player's hand, even though he or she played on the flop for some other reason.
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Back Into A Hand | To draw into a hand different from the one you were originally trying to make.
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Bad Beat | When a strong hand is beaten by a lucky hand; a longshot win.
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Bankroll | The amount of money you have available to wager.
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Behind | You're behind if you don't have the best hand before the last cards have been dealt.
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Belly Buster | A draw to fill an inside straight; a gut shot.
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Bet | To voluntarily put money or chips into the pot.
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Bet For Value | Betting in order to raise the amount in the pot, not to make your opponents fold.
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Bet Into | To bet before a stronger hand, or a player who bet strongly on the previous round.
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Bet The Pot | To bet the total value of the pot.
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Betting Black | Betting $100 amounts (black is a common color for $100 chips).
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Betting Green | Betting $25 amounts (green is a common color for $25 chips).
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Betting Red | Betting $5 amounts (red is a common color for $5 chips).
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Betting White | Betting $1 amounts (white is a common color for $1 chips).
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Betting Interval | The period during which each active player has the right to check, bet or raise; the round of betting. It ends when the last bet or raise has been called by all players still in the hand.
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Bicycle | The lowest possible hand in lowball: Ace-2-3-4-5. Also called a wheel.
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Big Bet Poker | Another term for pot-limit and no-limit poker.
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Big Blind | The forced bet in second position before any cards are dealt. Usually this is a Live Blind, which means that the player in this position can raise if no one else has before the cards are dealt.
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Big Slick | The Ace-King card combination.
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Black Leg | Archaic term for crooked card-sharp.
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Blank | A card that is of no value to a player's hand.
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Blind | A forced bet that one or more players to the dealer's left must make before any cards are dealt to start the action on the first round of betting.
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Blind Raise | When a player raises without first looking at his or her cards.
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Blow Back | To lose back one's profits.
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Bluff | To bet or raise with a hand that is unlikely to be the best hand.
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Board | In flop games, the five cards that are turned face up in the center of the table; in Seven-Card Stud, the four cards that are dealt face up to each player.
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Boat | Another name for full house.
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Bottom Pair | When you use the lowest card on the flop to make a pair.
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Bounty | A small amount of cash awarded to a player when he knocks out another player in some tournaments.
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Brick | A blank.
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Bring-In | The forced bet made on the first betting round by the player dealt the lowest card showing in Seven-Card Stud and the highest card showing in razz.
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Bring It In | To start the betting on the first round.
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Broadway | An ace high straight.
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Brush | A cardroom employee responsible for managing the seating list.
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Buck | In all flop games, a small disk used to indicate the dealer, or used to signify the player in the last position if a house dealer is used; a button.
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Bug | A Joker that can be used to make straights and flushes and can be paired with Aces, but not with any other cards.
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Bullet | An Ace.
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Bullets | A pair of Aces.
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Bump | To raise.
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Buried Pair | In stud games, a pair in the hole.
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Burn | To deal off the top card, face down, before dealing out the cards (to prevent cheating); or to set aside a card which has been inadvertently revealed.
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Bust | A worthless hand that has failed to improve as the player hoped; a busted hand.
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Bust a Player | To deprive a player of all his chips; in tournament play, to eliminate a player.
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Bust Out | To be eliminated from a tournament by losing all your chips.
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Busted | Broke, tapped.
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Busted Flush | A hand with only four of five cards in a flush.
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Button | In all flop games, a small disk used to signify the player in the last position if a house dealer is used; a buck.
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Buy-In | The miniumum amount of money required to sit down in a particular game.
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