Table Cards – Cards dealt face-up on the table
Table Charge – Seat charge: a fee paid for playing
Table Image – Other people’s impression on someone’s playing style
Table Stakes – A system of limiting wagers wherein a player may not go to his pocket for money during a hand
Take a Bad Beat – To be on a losing side of a bad beat
Take the Odds – To accept a wager
Tap – To wager all of one’s money in a single bet
Telegraph – To reveal information about one’s cards or intentions via clues sent through patterns of behavior
Telephone Booth – A passive player who usually calls even when other actions would be advisable for a specific situation; synonymous with “Calling Station”
Tell – An action or a pattern of behavior that gives clues and information on a player’s cards or intended actions
Texas Hold’em – The most popular among the poker variations in which players are dealt 2 downcards and 5 community cards
Third Pair – A pair made with a pocket card and the third-highest of the community cards
Third Street – The third card dealt in Stud Games
Thirty Miles – Three tens
Three Flush – Three cards of the same suit
Three of a Kind – A hand with three cards of the same number or face value
Throwing a Party – Happens when several amateur players are contributing huge amounts of money to the pot
Tie – Two hands of equal value
Tied On – When a player’s hand is good enough to be played until the game ends
Tight – (1) A player who frequently folds even when it is advisable to play a hand; (2) A game that does not have much action
Tilt – To have the quality of one’s play negatively affected by frustration on losing in a game
Timber – The collection of discarded, burned, folded, or fouled cards; synonymous with “Deadwood”
Time – (1) A player’s request to suspend play while he decides on how to act; (2) A fee paid to the casino or cardroom for a specific period of time played
Time Collection – A fee for seat rental
Time Out – To run out of time
Toke – The tip, normally a small amount of money, that the winner of the pot gives to a casino or cardroom employee
Token – A device, normally a chip, used to represent money for betting purposes
Top Kicker – The highest possible kicker in a given situation
Top Pair – A pair made with a pocket card and the community card of highest value
Top Two Pair – To have both of one’s pocket cards match the highest two cards on the board
Tough Player – A great poker player
Tournament – A series of poker games wherein the participants eliminate one another by gaining their opponents’ chips
Tournament Chips – Chips with no cash value–used merely to keep score in a tournament
Trap – To act in such a way as to convince an opponent that one has a weak hand
Trio – Three of a kind: a hand with three cards of the same value; synonymous with “Triplets”
Trip – To have a three cards of the same value on the board
Triplets – Three of a kind: a hand with three cards of the same value; synonymous with “Trio”
Turkish Pocket Aces – A pair of 8s in the pocket
Turn – The fourth community card
Turncard – In Omaha or in Hold’em: the fourth card dealt
Turn Down – To fold one’s cards
Twist – An extra card dealt to a specific player in exchange for an additional contribution to the pot; an option
Two Flush – To cards of the same suit
Two Pair – A hand with two different pairs and a kicker
Two-Way Hand – A hand that can win both high and low halves of a split-pot game
