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Pa Ferguson
Five-card stud with high card on board and all cards like it as wild.

Pace
See Betting Pace, Game Pace, and Hand Pace.

Pack
The deck of cards.

Packet
A portion of the pack.

Paint
A face card in a lowball hand.

Pair
Two cards of the same value.

Palmed Card
A card concealed for future use by a cheater.

Pan or Panguingue
A form of rummy played in some Nevada casinos and California poker clubs.

Paperwork
Markings added to cards by cheaters.

Partners
Collusion cheaters.

Pass
To check or drop out instead of betting.

Pass and Out
A game in which checking is not allowed on the first round.

Pass the Deal
To relinquish one's turn to deal.

Pass the
Trash (Garbage) A high-low stud game involving the exchanging of cards among players.

Passed Pot
When no one opens the pot.

Passive
A style of play that is characterized by reluctance to bet and raise.

Pass-Out
To fold when a bet or a fold is required.

Pasteboard
A card.

Pat Hand
A hand in which the player keeps all his cards without drawing or twisting new cards.

Patience Poker
See Crosscards.

Pay Off
To call a bet by a player you're pretty sure can beat you.

Peek Poker
Seven-card stud.

Peeker or Peeper
(l) one who looks at an active player's hand (2) a cheater who peeks at cards yet to be dealt.

Peep and Turn
See Mexican Stud.

Pelter (Bracket)
A five-card hand containing a two, five, nine, and one card either a three or a four, and the other card

either a six, seven or eight (Skeet).

Penalties
See Bonus.

Penny Ante
A very low-stake game.

Penultimate Card
The next to the last card in the deck.

Percentage
(1) The house cut. (2) Probabilities expressed as percentages.

Perdue
Cards turned down.

Perfect
You need perfect cards when you only have one way to make a hand.

Perfect Low
An unbeatable lowball hand, such as ace, two, three, four, five, or ace, two, three, four, six, or two, three, four, five, seven
depending on the game.

Philosopher
A cardsharp.

Pick Up Checks
To allow a player to bet or raise the limit for every check made before his play.

Picture Card
A jack, queen, or king.

Pig in the Poke
See Wild Widow.

Pigeon
(1) An easy player or a sucker. (2) A valuable card for a hand.

Pile
A player's money.

Pinch
Five dollars.

Pineapple Hold 'em
A hold 'em variation involving three hole cards and discarding one.

Pink Eye (Red Eye)
A pink-tinted contact lens worn by a cheater to identify marked cards or luminous readers. (See Luminous Readers)

Pips
The spots or marks on the face of a card.

Piranha
An aggressive bettor.

Pistol Stud
See Hole-Card Stud.

Place and Show Tickets Split P
A game in which cards are drawn from hands of other players and the pot is split between the second and third best
hands.

Place Tickets
(1) The second best hand. (2) Draw poker in which the second best hand wins.

Play
To call or stay in

Play Back
To declare a false stake in table stakes.

Play the Board
You.re playing the board in flop games if your best five card hand uses the five community cards.

Played Card
A card dealt to a hand.

Poch
The best pair, three of a kind, or four of a kind.

Pochen
A German card game from which the name poker was partly derived.

Pocket
The two cards dealt to you face down in Hold.em, or the in seven-card stud.

Pocket Pair
Two pocket cards of the same rank.

Point
The value of a card.

Poker
A money-management game that uses cards for manipulation and deception for winning.

Poker Diamond
A diagram that measures the idealness of a game.

Poker Dice
Cubical dice, each with a nine, ten, jack, queen, king, and ace on its six faces.

Poker Face
A face not showing any emotion or change in expression.

Poker Rules
A loose, flexible framework of traditions for playing poker.

Poker Solitaire
See Crosscards.

Pone
The player on the dealer's right.

Pool
A pot.

Poque
(1) A French card game from which the name of poker was partly derived. (2) A French betting expression.

Position
The relative situation of a player to the other players (Fundamental Position, Seat Position, Technical Position).

Position Bet
A bet made more on the strength of one's position at the table than on the strength of one's hand.

Post
To post a bet is to place your chips in the pot.

Pot
The area in which antes, bets, and raises are placed.

Pot Limit
Poker stakes in which the maximum permitted bet is the size of the pot.

Pot odds
The amount of money it will cost you to call a bet according to ratio of the amount of money in the pot.

Pothooks
Nines.

Pot-Limit Dig
Pot-Limit poker with no table-stake restrictions.

Poverty Poker
A game in which a player can lose only a predetermined amount, after which he can play with the winners' money.

Powerhouse
A very strong hand.

Premium
See Bonus.

Presto
A nickname for pocket 5's in Hold.em.

Primero
An old, betting card game of Spanish origin.

Private Poker
Poker played without money being cut for the house or for the host's profit.

Proctor and Gamble
A game with four cards in each hand and three rolled table cards with the last card and all like it as wild.

Progression of Bets
The increase in betting limits for each round of betting.

Progressive Poker
A game in which the ante, bets, and opener requirements increase after a passed pot.

Prop
Short for a proposition player.

Proposition Player
A proposition player is a player who is paid by a Cardroom to play poker.

Protect
To bet so as to reduce the changes of anyone outdrawing you by the getting them to fold.

Provider
A provider (or Fish) is a poker player who makes the game profitable for the other players at the table.

Public Poker
Poker played in gambling casinos or in public card clubs in which the pots are cut for profit.

Pull Through
A false shuffling technique used by cheaters.

Punching
Marking cards with pinpricks.

Punters
Those who gamble against the banker.

Puppy
Feet Clubs.

Puppy Foot
The ace of clubs.

Push
Passing unwanted cards to players on one's left.

Pushka
An arrangement between two or more players to share part of the pots they win.

Put Up
To pay money owed to the pot.