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Sandbag | To check a strong hand with the intention of raising or re-raising.
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Satellite | A small-stakes tournament whose winner obtains cheap entry into a bigger tournament.
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Scare Card | An up card that looks as though it might have made a strong hand.
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School | The players in a regular game.
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Scoop | To win the entire pot.
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Scooting | Passing chips to another player after winning a pot; horsing.
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Seat Charge | In public cardrooms, an hourly fee for playing poker.
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Seating List | In most cardrooms, if there is no seat available for you when you arrive, you can put your name on a list to be seated when a seat opens up.
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Second Pair | In flop games, pairing the second highest card on board.
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See | To call.
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Semi-Bluff | To bet with a hand which isn't the best hand, but which has a reasonable chance of improving.
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Set | Three of a kind; trips (usually applies to a pair in hand and a matching card on board).
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Set You In | To bet as much as your opponent has left in front of him.
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Seventh Street | The final betting round on the last card in Seven-Card Stud.
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Shill | A cardroom employee, often an off-duty dealer, who plays with house money to make up a game.
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Shootout | A tournament format in which a single player ends up with the entire prize money, or in which play continues at each table until only one player remains.
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Short Odds | The odds for an event that has a good chance of occurring.
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Short-Stacked | Having only a small number of chips left.
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Show One, Show All | A rule that says if a player shows their cards to anyone at the table they can be asked to show everyone else.
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Showdown | The point at the end of the final round of betting when all the remaining player's cards are turned up to see which player has won the pot.
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Side Card | An unmatched card which may determine the winner between two otherwise equal hands.
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Side Pot | A separate pot contested by other players when one player is all-in.
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Sixth Street | In Seven-Card Stud, the fourth round of betting on the sixth card.
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Skin | To fix the cards; cheat.
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Slow Play | Disguising the value of a strong hand by underbetting, to trick an opponent.
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Slowroll | To reveal one's hand slowly at showdown, one card at a time, to heighten the drama.
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Small Blind | The smaller of the two compulsory bets in flop games, made by the player in the first postion to the dealer's left.
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Smooth | The best possible low hand with a particular high card.
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Smooth Call | To call rather than raise an opponent's bet.
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Snap Off | To beat another player, often a bluffer, and usually without a powerful hand.
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Speed | The level of aggressiveness with which you play. Fast play is more aggressive, slow play is more passive.
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Splash Around | To play more loosely than you should.
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Splash The Pot | To throw your chips into the pot, instead of placing them in front of you. This makes it difficult for the dealer to determine the amount you bet.
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Split | A tie.
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Spread | When a cardroom starts a table for a particular game, it is said to spread that game. If you want to know what games are played in a particular place, you can ask what they spread.
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Spread Limit | Betting limits in which there is a fixed minimum and maximum bet for each betting round.
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Squeeze | To look slowly at the extremities of your hole cards, without removing them from the table, to worry your opponents and heighten the drama.
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Stack | The pile of chips in front of a player.
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Stand Pat | To decline an opportunity to draw cards.
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Stand-Off | A tie, in which the players divide the pot equally.
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Stay | To remain in a hand with a call rather than a raise.
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Steal | A bluff in late position, attempting to steal the pot from a table of apparently weak hands.
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Steaming | Playing poorly and wildly, often because the player is emotionally upset.
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Steel Wheel | In lowball, a straight flush, five high (Ace-2-3-4-5).
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Straddle | To make a blind raise before the deal; big blind.
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Straight | Five consecutive cards of mixed suits.
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Straight Flush | Five consecutive cards of the same suit.
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Streak | A run of good or bad cards.
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String Bet | An illegal bet in which a player puts some chips in the pot, then reaches back to his stack for more, without having first verbally stated the full amount of his bet.
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Structure | The limits set upon the ante, forced bets and subsequent bets and raises in any given game.
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Stuck | Slang for losing, often a substantial amount of money.
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Stud | Any form of poker in which the first card or cards are dealt down, or in the hole, followed by several open, or face up, cards.
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Suck Out | To win a hand by hitting a very weak draw, often with poor pot odds.
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Suited | Cards of the same suit.
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Sweat | To watch a player from the rail.
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Sweeten The Pot | Slang for raise.
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