Bots are computer programs designed to play poker without human oversight. Bots are illegal and unethical to use.

In Knockout/Bounty tournaments, a bounty is a set amount of prize money you win for each player you knock out. For example, in a $100+20 buy-in Knockout tournament with $20 bounties, you win $20 for each player you eliminate from the tournament, in addition to the normal payout structure. Read our guide to knockout/bounty tournament…

Short for Bankroll Management, which is the practice of playing poker at stakes you can afford based on how much money you have at your disposal. Proper bankroll management helps poker players lower or eliminate their risk of ruin. For example, if you want to play $1/$2 cash games (which have a buy-in of $200)…

A expression of winnings in poker cash games, bb/100 refers to the number of big blinds won per 100 hands. Here is the formula for bb/100: (winnings/big blind amount) / (#of hands/10) For example, if you’re playing a game with $1/$2 blinds and win $200 over a 1,000-hand sample, your bb/100 would be 10. This…

Badugi is a draw poker variant in which the objective is to make the lowest possible offsuit four-card hand. The best/lowest possible hand in Badugi is A-2-3-4 of all different suits. Check out the related article below for detailed Badugi rules and hand rankings.

Big Blind Defending refers to calling or re-raising from the big blind versus a raise. The mathematically correct calling range in the big blind is wider than any other position because you already have chips invested in the pot, thus pot odds dictate that calling is the right play with a wide range of hands.…

Buying the Button is an option giving to any new player who sits down at a game between the Button and Small Blind. This player has the opportunity to play from the button position in the next hand if they pay both the small and big blind. This is done to gain position advantage.

The Buy-In refers to the amount of money required to play in a particular poker game. In tournaments this is the cost to enter that goes to prize pool as well as the rake earned by the casino. Additionally, cash games typically require a minimum buy-in to play at a particular table.

The actual button placed in front of the “dealer” that moves clockwise each hand, indicating where the dealer, or last person to act, would be in games that use a professional dealer. Button (or on-the-button) is also used to describe the dealer position in each hand. Example: “Gary raised to 7 Under The Gun (UTG)…

Busting simply means running out of chips in a tournament or cash game; also known as felted.

The Burn or Burn Card is the top card of the deck that is placed into the muck or beneath the pot by the dealer before dealing the flop, turn, or river. After all pre-flop action is complete, the dealer must always (except in rare instances) burn the top card of the deck by placing…

The Bubble refers to the cut off point between players that get paid money and players who receive no payout in a given poker tournament. Usually a tournament will pay the top 10%-20% of players, so that in a field of 100 players the tournament may only pay 10 places. The last player eliminated before…

Broadway, or a Broadway straight, is a ten-to-ace straight. The cards that make up this straight (A-K-Q-J-T) are known as Broadway cards.

Bottom Pair means you have made a pair with the lowest community card on the board and one hole card.

Also known as a full house, a hand consisting of both three of a kind and a pair. For example, if you hold A♠ K♠ and the board reads A♣ A♥ K♥ 2♦ 3♦, you have a boat (aka a full house or full boat), with a five-card hand of A♠ A♣ A♥ K♠ K♥.…

In Texas Hold’em and Omaha, the board is the collection of community cards that are available to all players (the flop, turn, and river). In Stud games, the board is the card(s) dealt in front of each player that are only available to that player.