Poker Terms Beginning With 'R'

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rabbit hunting

• Scanning through the undealt deck of cards.

ragged

• A flop that doesn’t appear to help anybody very much.

rail

• The rim of a poker table or a barrier outside a poker arena.

railbird

• Someone who loiters around poker tables watching or waiting to get in.

raise

• To increase the previous bet.

raise blind

• To raise without looking at one’s cards.
• A forced raise.

rake

• Chips collected from the pot by the cardroom as compensation for hosting.

rank

• The respective value of each card.

rap

• When a player knocks on the table to indicate that s/he has checked.

rat holing

• The illegal act of taking chips off a table and putting them elsewhere.

razz

• Seven Card Stud where the lowest five cards win the pot.

re-buy

• The amount of money a player adds chips to her/his stack in tournaments.

re-rise

• The act of raising a raised bet.

ribbon clerk

• A small time gambler.

ring game

• A live game that is not a tournament.

river

• The last card given in all games.

rock

• A tight, passive player.

rolled up

• In seven-card stud, being dealt three of a kind in the first three cards.

rotation

• Clockwise movement in direction of the dealer.

round of play

• The action sequence in which every player deals a poker hand.

Royal Flush

• An ace high straight (A-K-Q-J-10) of the same suit. Best possible hand.

run

• A straight.
• Several good hands after one another; a rush.

run a pot

• Winning a hand by bluffing throughout a hand, implying more than one bet.

running bad

• A losing streak.

running good

• A winning streak.

running pair

• When the last two cards on the board are a pair.

rush

• A winning streak.