A flush draw is when you have four cards of the same suit, meaning you need just one more to hit a high ranking flush. For example, if you hold K♠ Q♠ on a flop of J♠ 7♠ 2♣, you have a flush draw.

Getting felted in poker means losing your entire stack, leaving nothing in front of you but the felt on the poker table. Ouch!

Filled up is a term used to describe a hand that has made a full house. When you have two pair on the turn, you’re probably hoping that you’ll hit another of your cards on the river, right? When you hit your full house on the river, this means you’ve filled up!

Fish is a poker term that describes a certain type of player who the user thinks is objectively bad at the game. Bad poker players are commonly referred to as fish, while good players are referred to as sharks.

The floor refers to ruling officials in live poker, who can be called to rule on situations in live poker. The floor’s decision is binding, once they make a decision the ruling is final and play resumes.

Face cards refer to Jacks, Queens and Kings, since in live poker those cards have faces on them.

Fast Fold Poker (also known as Zoom Poker) is an online poker cash game variant where players are immediately dealt another hand at a new table after folding. Also known as Zone (on Ignition/Bovada) and SNAP (888Poker). Want to learn how to adjust your strategy when playing fast fold poker? Read this guide: Strategy Comparison:…

Final Hand simply means a player’s hand ranking after all cards have been dealt.

Holding four cards to a flush with a chance to complete the flush on later streets. For example, if you hold 7♦ 6♦ and the flop comes K♦ 8♦ A♠, you have a four flush, also commonly known as a flush draw.  Want to learn how to play on Four Flush boards? Read this article:…

Full Ring is typically a poker game with a full table of nine or ten players, most commonly found in live casinos. Full ring games are the counterpart to 6-max games, which allow only a maximum of six players at a table.

Also known as a boat, or full boat, a full house is 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 full house, with a five-card hand of A♠ A♣ A♥ K♠ K♥.

A Freezeout is a tournament that does not offer rebuys or re-entry. If a player loses all of his/her chips, s/he is permanently out of the tournament.

Freeroll can mean: 1. A tournament that has no required entry fee or buy-in, while also still offering a real-money prize pool.  2. A hand in which a player is guaranteed to at least split the pot with his/her opponent, with a chance to win the pot outright. For example, if you have A♠ A♣…

A card dealt after all players check that all players get to see without having to place any more money into the pot. “Everyone checked on the flop, so all players got to see a free card on the turn.”

A hand comprised of four cards with the same value, or rank, and different suits. In Texas Hold’em, for example, you would have four-of-a-kind if you held 2♠ 2♣ and the board came 2♥ 5♣ 2♦ J♦ T♥.  Also commonly referred to as “quads.”  Want to learn how to play four of a kind? Read…

Forward Motion is a rule that assumes that if a player moves any chips toward the center of the table, s/he has committed those chips to the pot. “Ron started moving his chips forward toward the center of the table, and therefore is committed to a bet by the rule of forward motion.”