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Tight Player
A player who seldom bets unless he has a strong hand.

Tilt
When a good player does things they know are bad. This will usually happen when they are frustrated, angry, or upset for any reason.

Time Cut
Money charged each player on a time basis by a casino or poker club. Charge is usually on a 3 minute or an hourly basis (Axe, Collection).

Time Game
Poker game in which players are charged by the house, club, or casino a specified amount each hour or half hour for playing privileges.

To Go
The amount it takes to enter the pot.

Toke
A tip, especially to a dealer in a gambling casino.

Top
To beat an opponent.

Top Pair
If there are three cards of different ranks on the flop in any flop game and you pair is the highest one.

Tough Player
A superior poker player.

Tournament
The idea behind poker tournaments is that a bunch of poker players sit down with the same number of chips, and eventually only one player has any chips left.

Trey
A three.

Tricon
Three of a kind.

Trio, Triplets, or Trips
Three of a kind.

Trips Eight
Stud or draw split-pot poker with an eight for low and trips for high as qualifiers. Often played with one or two twists.

Tulsa
See Omaha.

Turn
A player's chance to deal, receive cards, or bet.

Turn
The fourth of five community cards in flop games.

Turn Down
To fold.

Turnie-Turnie
See Mexican Stud.

Twenty-Deck Poker
Poker played with twenty cards. All cards lower than tens are removed.

Twin Beds
A high-low game involving five cards in each hand and ten turned up on the table.

Twist
A draw in stud or an extra draw in draw poker.

Twist Your Neighbor
To draw cards from the hands of other players.

Two Pair
Two separate pairs of different values in a hand.

Two Pair Nine
Stud or draw split-pot poker with a nine for low and two pair for high as qualifiers. Often played with one or two twists.

Two-Card Poker
Any poker game in which the best two cards win.

Two-Way Hand
A hand having possibilities of winning both high and low halves of a split-pot game.

Table
See Board.

Table Cards
Cards turned face-up on the table for use in everyone's hand, such as used in Cincinnati.

Table Change
If you'd like to play at a table other than the one you're currently at you can ask the floor for a table change.

Table Cop
A player who calls with the intention of keeping other players honest. Can also be a player who makes an effort to point out violations.

Table Stakes
Stakes in which the betting and raising is limited to the amount of money a player has in front of him.

Table Talk
A discussion at the table of the current hand by players not involved in the pot.

Take It or
Leave It See Shove Them Along.

Take Out
The number of chips a player starts with in table stakes.

Take the Lead
To make a bet or raise.

Talon
The remainder of the deck after the deal.

Tap
To bet all one's money in table stakes.

Tap City
A player having gone broke in a game.

Tap Out
To bet and lose all one's cash, forcing one to leave the game.

Tap You
(1) An expression for a player betting an amount equal to all the money his opponent has on the table in table stakes. (2) A raise.

Technical Position
The strategic and psychological advantage of a player relative to the other players.

Telephone Booth
A very loose player (Calling Station).

Tells
Characteristics, habits, or actions of a player that give away his hand or intentions.

Ten
Ten High-low five-card stud with ten for low and a pair of tens for high as qualifiers. Usually played with two twists.

Tennessee
Draw poker in which a bet is made after each round of cards is dealt.

Tennessee Hold Me
See Hold 'em.

Tens High
Poker in which no hand higher than a pair of tens can win.

Texas Hold 'em
See Hold 'em.

Texas Special or Texas Tech
See Double-Barreled Shotgun.

The Diamond
A measurement of the idealness of a poker game for the good player.

Thirty Days or Thirty Miles
Three tens.

Thirty Three
Six-card stud with threes wild.

Three of a Kind
Three cards of the same value (Treys, Triplets, Trips).

Three-Card Monte
A three-card game similar to Bragg.

Three-Toed Pete
Three-card poker.

Throat Shot
An expression for a player barely losing a big pot.

Throw Off
To discard.

Throw Up a
Hand To fold.

Ticket
A card.

Tie
Two hands of equal value. The pot is usually divided between tied hands that win.

Tierce
A three-card straight flush.

Tiger
A low hand from the two to the seven.