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Hand - the cards you hold, the best 5 cards in games where more than 5 cards are available for one to play

Heads Up - one on one play, only two players are involved in the game

Occasionally, it happens that no players in a poker game score any significantly ranking cards, even a pair. In these cases their highest cards are taken into account. The person with thehighest High Card wins. If more than one player shares the same card value the next highest card is considered and so on…

Short hand for $10,000 is the term: High Society.

High Hand - the best hand in any round of poker

The starting hand of two Queens is known either as the ladies or as Hilton Sisters.

High-Low Split - games where half the pot goes to the highest ranking poker hand and half goes to the lowest ranking poker hand

Hold'em - poker game where each player receives 2 pocket cards and tries to make the best hand using these 2 cards and 5 community cards dealt to the table, bets can be made after the 2 pocket cards are dealt, after the first 3 community cards are dealt and after the 4th and 5th community cards are dealt, most popular game played online

Hole Cards - the card or cards in stud poker unseen by the other players

House - The House, the owners management of the game who take the rake and manage the games

The starting hand that included two jack is referred to as Hooks.

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