Poker Terms Beginning With 'W'

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walk

• A pot won by the last blind when no one opens.

walk the table

• The automatic winning of the entire pot with a certain card or specific hand.

walking sticks

• A hand consisting of a pair of sevens.

wash

• To shuffle.

weak

• A player who folds too many hands.

wedges

• Marked cards that can be recognized and utilized by a cheater.

welcher

• A player who does not pay her/his debt.

whangedoodle

• A round of jackpots played after a big hand.

wheel

• The nest possible low hand: A-2-3-4-5; also called bicycle.

whipsaw

• Betting and raising aggressively on both sides of a calling player.

Whiskey Poker

• Draw poker with widow cards that can be exchanged from one’s hand.

widow

• A card that is common to all hands.
• The money cut from the pots; also called kitty.

wild card

• A card that can be played as any value.

wild game

• A game played using wild cards.
• An enthusiastically played, fast action game.

window

• The card exposed at the end of a player’s closed hand.

window dressing

• Another name for three of a kind.

wing

• To have a winning streak.

wired

• A pair, trips, or four of a kind dealt back to back in a hand.

wooden hand

• A hand that cannot possibly win; a dud hand.