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Face Card
Any picture card.

Faced
(1) A face-up card. (2) To receive a face card.

Fall of the Cards
The order in which cards are dealt.

False Cut
A cheater's cut in which the stacked portion of the deck remains intact on top of the deck.

False Openers
A hand that has been opened improperly.

False Riffle
A cheater's riffle used to keep stacked cards undisturbed after riffling.

False Shuffle
See Blind Shuffle.

Family Pot
A pot in which everyone calls the bet.

Farm System
Several poker games at different stakes under control of a good player.

Fast Game
A game with a fast betting pace.

Fatten
To increase the money in the pot (Sweeten).

Favorite
The hand that is expected to win most often.

Feeble Phoebe
Like Hollywood, except table cards are turned over two at a time and played for high and low.

Feed the Pot
To bet or raise foolishly.

Feeler Bet
A small or nominal bet made to seek out strength or raising tendencies of opponents.

Felt
The surface of most poker tables.

Fever
A five.

Filling
Drawing and then catching a full house, flush, or straight.

Fin
Five dollars.

Finger Poker
A game run on credit.

Finn Poker
To play poker with the objective of winning maximum money.

First Hand
The first player allowed to bet a hand.

First Jack Deals
A method to determine who has the first deal.

Fish
An easy or a poor player.

Fish Hook
A seven or a jack.

Five and Dime
A hand containing a five and a ten with three unpaired cards in between.

Five Card Draw
Probably the world.s most well-known poker game.

Five of a Kind
Five cards of the same value.

Five-Card Stud
Stud poker played with one hole card and four exposed cards.

Fix
To prearrange the cards or stack the deck.

Fixed Limit
Betting with agreed-upon limits or maximums.

Flash
(1) To expose concealed cards (2) To turn up a common card for everyone's use when insufficient cards are
available to complete a stud game. (3) Five cards, one of each suit \nplus the joker.

Flat Call
A way of calling that emphasizes the fact that the player didn't raise.

Flat Limit
A game in which only one consistent amount is allowed for all bets and raises.

Flat Poker
Poker with a blind open.

Flicker Flicker
Five-card, high-low stud.

Flinger
A wild or crazy player.

Flip Stud
Five-card stud in which the optional hole card and matching hole cards are wild.

Floorman
(1) A Cardroom manager. (2) Shift boss in a casino.

Flop
The first three exposed cards in hold 'em poker.

Flush
Five cards of the same suit.

Fluss (Flux]
A flush.

Foiling the Cut
A cheater's method of returning cards to their original position after a cut.

Fold
To drop out of a hand by not calling the bet or raise (Drop).

Football
A stud game similar to baseball involving sixes and threes as wild cards.

Force-in
A mandatory blind bet, usually with an option to raise.

Foul Hand
A hand containing the wrong number of cards.

Four Flush
Four cards of the same suit.

Four Forty Four
Eight-card stud with fours wild.

Four of a Kind
Four cards of the same value (Fours).

Four-Flusher
(1) A cheater. (2) One who tries to win pots by purposely miscalling his hand.

Fox
An expert player.

Freak
A joker or a wild card.

Freak Hands
Nonstandard poker hands such as Blazers, Dutch Straights, Kilters, and Skeets.

Free Card
It.s a free card whenever you get to see an additional card without having to call a bet.

Free Ride
Playing without paying.

Free Roll
A lock on half the pot with a chance to win the whole pot.

Free Wheeler
A bankrupt player allowed to play free until he wins a pot.

Freeze Out
A rule requiring player to leave the game after losing a certain amount of cash.

Freezer
A call for less than the amount of the bet in table stakes (Short Call).

Friend
A card that improves a hand.

Full House, Full Barn, or Full
Three of a kind with another pair (Full Hand).

Fundamental Position
The value of a player's hand relative to the other player's hands.

Fuzzing
Mixing the cards by continuously stripping off the top and bottom cards (Milking, Snowing Cards).