Glossary

Roger That
(n phrase) Hold'em starting hand nickname: 10-4. Comes from the police "10-code", and signifies affirmation or confirmation.

raise
1. (v) Increase the bet. In a limit game, this means add a bet equal to the betting limit; in a no-limit game, this means increase by anything equal to or greater than the previous bet or raise. 2. (n) The act of increasing the bet. "Is that a raise?" 3. The money, in the form of chips, that constitutes this bet. "He put in a $100 raise."

rake

Rake is the percentage of a pot that the house collects as compensation for hosting a game. At Full Tilt Poker the maximum rake in ring games is $3, with a minimum pot size needed for any rake. The only exception is a hand completed where players have chosen to use Run it Twice, where maximum rake is $4.

Tournament style games have an entry fee but do not collect rake.

rank

(n) The denomination of a card, as deuce or 10

razz
A game similar to the seven card stud. In razz, however, your objective is to make the lowest possible hand. Each player that stays in for every round of betting ends up with seven cards - four face up and three face down. At the showdown, the player holding the best LOW hand using five of his seven cards wins the pot. Aces are always low, and flushes and straights have no effect on the value of a hand. The best possible hand is A-2-3-4-5.

real money
(n phrase) Actual cash, as opposed to play money. Real money is represented online with cyber-cash, but it has just as much value as the chips used in brick-and mortar cardrooms. In an online cardroom, a player has an account from which he moves chips to tables while playing and to which he deposits the cash represented by those chips when he leaves a game.

real money games
(n phrase) Online games that use real money.

rebuy
1. (v) Buy more chips in a rebuy tournament. 2. (n) The act of buying these chips. "I've had three rebuys so far." 3. The chips so bought. "The rebuy is $100."

rebuy period
(n phrase) The period of time during a rebuy tournament in which players can buy more chips when they go broke.

rebuy tournament
(n phrase) A tournament in which players can buy more chips when they go broke. Usually the time during which players can buy more chips is limited to the first few levels and usually a player is permitted a rebuy only when his chips go below a certain level, generally equal to the buy-in amount. This time is called the rebuy period.

reopen the betting
(v phrase) 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. Examples of ending the betting are not taking the option on the big blind and just calling a raise when you are the last to act. Here is an example showing how it works in a no-limit game. You opened for $100. Chloe raised to $500. Jean and Joan called the $500. The action now comes back to you. If you just call the $400, no more betting is permitted on this round, and the next card would be dealt, if there is one, or there would be a showdown if this is the last round. If, on the other hand, you reraised, that would reopen the betting, because Chloe would again have an opportunity to fold, call, or raise, as would Jean and Joan.

reverse bridge order
(n phrase) 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.

river
1. (n) River card. "I spiked an ace on the river." 2. (v) To have that card affect a particular player. For example, if you start with two hearts in the hole, the flop includes two hearts (and one non-heart), the turn a non-heart, and the river is a heart, you are said to have rivered a flush.

river card
(n phrase) In hold'em-type games, the fifth of the community cards (that is, the fifth card dealt to the center). Following this card is the third round of betting. This card is sometimes (rarely) called fifth street. 2. In seven-card stud, the last card, delivered on seventh street.

rocket
(n) ace; usually used in the plural. Often part of the phrase pocket rockets.

rolled up
(adv phrase) Describing the situation in which you start a seven-card stud hand with three of a kind, that is, your first three cards are all of the same rank.

room
(n) See cardroom.

round
(n) 1. Betting round. 2. In a stud game, distribution of cards to each active player. The first round consists of three cards, and the next four rounds each consist of one card. Each of these rounds is followed by a round of betting.

rush poker*

(n) A variant of a ring game designed to minimize the wait between hands. Players enter a large player pool spread across numerous tables. Once a player folds, they are immediately taken to a new hand at a new table, without having to wait for the current hand to finish.

* Patent Pending

rush poker* tournament

(n phrase) A tournament played in Rush Poker* format, which switches to “standard” tournament mode once the final table is reached.

* Patent Pending