| Sandbag |
To check a strong hand with the intention of raising or re-raising. |
| Satellite |
A small-stakes tournament whose winner obtains cheap entry into a bigger tournament. |
| Scare Card |
An up card that looks as though it might have made a strong hand. |
| School |
The players in a regular game. |
| Scoop |
To win the entire pot. |
| Scooting |
Passing chips to another player after winning a pot; horsing. |
| Seat Charge |
In public cardrooms, an hourly fee for playing poker. |
| 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. |
| Second Pair |
In flop games, pairing the second highest card on board. |
| See |
To call. |
| Semi-Bluff |
To bet with a hand which isn't the best hand, but which has a reasonable chance of improving. |
| Set |
Three of a kind; trips (usually applies to a pair in hand and a matching card on board). |
| Set You In |
To bet as much as your opponent has left in front of him. |
| Seventh Street |
The final betting round on the last card in Seven-Card Stud. |
| Shill |
A cardroom employee, often an off-duty dealer, who plays with house money to make up a game. |
| 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. |
| Short Odds |
The odds for an event that has a good chance of occurring. |
| Short-Stacked |
Having only a small number of chips left. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Side Card |
An unmatched card which may determine the winner between two otherwise equal hands. |
| Side Pot |
A separate pot contested by other players when one player is all-in. |
| Sixth Street |
In Seven-Card Stud, the fourth round of betting on the sixth card. |
| Skin |
To fix the cards; cheat. |
| Slow Play |
Disguising the value of a strong hand by underbetting, to trick an opponent. |
| Slowroll |
To reveal one's hand slowly at showdown, one card at a time, to heighten the drama. |
| 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. |
| Smooth |
The best possible low hand with a particular high card. |
| Smooth Call |
To call rather than raise an opponent's bet. |
| Snap Off |
To beat another player, often a bluffer, and usually without a powerful hand. |
| Speed |
The level of aggressiveness with which you play. Fast play is more aggressive, slow play is more passive. |
| Splash Around |
To play more loosely than you should. |
| 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. |
| Split |
A tie. |
| 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. |
| Spread Limit |
Betting limits in which there is a fixed minimum and maximum bet for each betting round. |
| 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. |
| Stack |
The pile of chips in front of a player. |
| Stand Pat |
To decline an opportunity to draw cards. |
| Stand-Off |
A tie, in which the players divide the pot equally. |
| Stay |
To remain in a hand with a call rather than a raise. |
| Steal |
A bluff in late position, attempting to steal the pot from a table of apparently weak hands. |
| Steaming |
Playing poorly and wildly, often because the player is emotionally upset. |
| Steel Wheel |
In lowball, a straight flush, five high (Ace-2-3-4-5). |
| Straddle |
To make a blind raise before the deal; big blind. |
| Straight |
Five consecutive cards of mixed suits. |
| Straight Flush |
Five consecutive cards of the same suit. |
| Streak |
A run of good or bad cards. |
| 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. |
| Structure |
The limits set upon the ante, forced bets and subsequent bets and raises in any given game. |
| Stuck |
Slang for losing, often a substantial amount of money. |
| 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. |
| Suck Out |
To win a hand by hitting a very weak draw, often with poor pot odds. |
| Suited |
Cards of the same suit. |
| Sweat |
To watch a player from the rail. |
| Sweeten The Pot |
Slang for raise. |
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