If anyone has examples that they'd like to post to any of the definitions, go for it! There's nothing like the real thing to illustrate a point beautifully.

I've been playing so long, and been surrounded by it for so long, I forget that some of it is foreign to many.

I was in the Mirage one night, and somebody was telling the table some inane bad-beat story. We all nodded along, oblivious to just how much lingo was being used. "I've got cowboys on the button, two fish limp, and I pop it when it gets to me. The big blind's got rockets, and he's slow-playing..."

When the story-teller finally stopped for a breath, an older player who found the story as uninteresting as the rest of us, said, "You know, I think a team of Harvard professors could sit and listen to us for a few hours, and still have no idea what the hell we're talking about."

Of course, this was the good old days, pre-tv. :eek:

(Yeah, the good old days. The Mirage has been around since 1989...)

Too true! It's very easy to forget what it's like to be a green-horn ... but in a lingo-laden game like Poker any insight the newbies can get is very worthwhile to them. I know, I know, they'll learn but I think we have a great opportunity here to _build_ a learning tool.

A couple that I can think off off hand--

77-- corn cutters
88- snow men
35-- the Ethiopian slingsot
92-- the Montana Banana

Fly bet- to bet on the flop into a pre-flop raiser.

55 -- Speed Limit

A couple others:

76-- the Dirk Diggler (13 inches, get it? Poker players are such wits.)
Q3-- The Gay Waiter ( A queen with a trey; again, what wit.)
69-- Big Lick (I'll let others elaborate)

22 -- ducks

Fishermen--variation of "hooks"; JJ
Closet F'ers--88
Dinner for two--69
Jailbait, or Teenage Hooker--J8

Locally (games in Bellingham, WA, a university town), we've sort of started up our own terminology:

"Phooning"--from "Typhoon": bluffing.
"Cained"--to get beat by an unexpected hand that wasn't a draw out; ie, attributing your opponents call to a poorly thought out flush draw, only to find that he flopped a set.
"Thor"--means "no", or "none" in various fashions.
"Rest"--restless; used after a bad beat.

"I thought you had thor on the flop but a draw, so I phooned all in, but man...Jesus, you had me cained."

:) This stuff makes Jabberwocky sound sane.

"Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe."

Lewis Carrol, Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There, 1872

Pretty sure this is universal, but a suck-out is when you have the superior hand on the flop, and some sucker pays you to see the turn or river--and, by a miracle, catches one of the 2 or three cards that could possible beat you.

remember this is a suggestion so no one be getting mad at me now (its happened before)......(more than once).......Why do they call 35 an ethopian slingshot and the same for the other names????

LOL. I don't think a person should show his/her hand. It let's other people know too much about you.

22- The MIghty Ducks
32- Shaq ataack
AQ -Big Chick

22 "ducks" 22 stands for 22 gauge shotgun

22 - brothers
69 - kamasutra

69 - kamasutra

Or "big lick"

Or "big lick"

Last night i said "guys i got big lick". Flopped 2 pair, board was ace/6/9.. @ showdown I pulled in a monster and someone was like, thought you had big slick? =]

Well played sir.