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holding a pocket pair in their hand matched with one card on the board. Conversely trips refer to a paired board and you hold one of those cards in your hand (i.e. the flop is 2, 4, 4 and you are holding Ace/4, hence you have trip fours).

The next best hand is a straight, which refers to 5 cards that run chronologically together. The lowest straight (A, 2, 3, 4, 5) is called a wheel, whereas the highest straight (10, J, Q, K, A) is called Broadway. Flushes are the next best possible hand and consist of 5 cards that do not make a straight but are all the same suit. Following flushes are full houses which are three of the same cards, plus a pair. For example the board reads K, K, 10, 2, 5 and you hold K/10; you have Kings full of ten's. Full houses are sometimes called boats. Quads or four of kind is simply four of the same card. Straight flushes combine a straight all of the same suit, followed by the difficult to achieve Royal flush that is 10, J, Q, K, A all of the same suit.

BEING ON TILT
"Tilt" is a negative term slung around and is given to a player when an event at the table has occurred that adversely effects the way they play subsequent hands. It generally happens when a player loses a hand to another player when they were initially a favorite to win. These emotions associated with losing and the frame of mind that goes with it normally causes the individual on tilt to either play ultra conservative, but more frequently to play loose and crazy, thus altering their play for the worse until they get over the incident.

OTHER TERMS
Bad Beat: You have a huge hand that gets beat by someone drawing to very few outs. The initial scenario described above would be considered a very bad beat - a straight flush against a full house.

Burn: The top card that is pulled off the top of the deck before the flop, turn, and river cards are dealt.

Busted Draw: When all five community cards have been exposed and you didn't complete your draw it is referred to as a busted or missed draw.

Connectors: Two cards that run subsequent in order like 7/8, or J/10.

Draw/Outs: To draw to a hand means you have a certain number of "outs" to make your hand; if you are drawing it implies you do not have a made hand. The most common draws are straights and flushes.

Heads-up: When only two opponents are competing against each other.

Gut-Shot: A straight draw consisting of only four outs. For example you have 2/3 and the flop is Ace, 5, and 10. The only card that helps your hand is a "gut-shot" 4

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