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Action
Opportunity to act. If a player appears not to realize that it is turn, the dealer will say “Your action, sir”.
Ante
A small portion of a bet contributed by each player to seed the pot at the beginning of a poker hand.
Burn
A term used to describe the process of discarding the top card from the deck, face down. This is done between each betting round before putting out the next community card(s). It is security against any player recognizing or glimpsing the next card to be used on the board.
Complete Hand
A hand that is defined by all five cards – a straight, flush, full house, four of a kind or a straight flush.
House
The establishment running the game.
Inside Straight
A hand that has four of the cards required for a straight but needs one in the middle to complete it.
Kicker
An unpaired card used to determine the better of two near-equivalent hands.
Muck
The pile of folded and burned cards in front of the dealer.
Open-ended straight
Four consecutive cards requiring one at either end to make a straight.
Pocket
Your unique cards that only you can see.
Protect
To keep your hand or place a chip on your cards. This prevents them from being fouled by a discarded hand, or accidentally being mucked by the dealer.
Quads
Four of a kind.
Rank
The numerical value of a card (as opposed to its suit).
Tell
A clue or hint that a player unknowingly gives about the strength of his/her hand, his next action. Etc.
Toke
A small amount of money given to the dealer by the winner of the pot. Quite often, tokes represent the majority of a dealer's income.
Trips
Three of a kind.
Variance
A measure of the up and down swings your bankroll goes through. The higher your variance, the wider swings you'll see in your bankroll

Online poker is the game of poker played over the Internet (online). It has been responsible for a dramatic increase in the number of poker players worldwide, and as of December 2003, revenues from online poker were estimated at US$34 million per month.

There are substantial differences between online poker gaming and conventional, in-person gaming.

One obvious difference is that players do not sit right across from each other, removing any ability to observe others' reactions and body language. Instead, online poker players learn to focus more keenly on betting patterns, reaction time and other behavior tells that are not physical in nature. Since poker is a game that requires adaptability, successful online players learn to master the new frontiers of their surroundings.

Another less obvious difference is the rate of play. In brick and mortar casinos the dealer has to collect the cards, then shuffle and deal them after every hand. Due to this and other delays common in offline casinos, the average rate of play is around thirty hands per hour. Online casinos, however, do not have these delays; the dealing and shuffling are instant, there are no delays relating to counting chips (for a split pot), and on average the play is faster due to "auto-action" buttons (where the player selects his action before his turn). It is not uncommon for an online poker table to average sixty to eighty hands per hour.

This large difference in rate of play has created another effect among online poker players. In the brick and mortar casino, the only real way to increase your earnings is to increase your limit. In the online world players have another option, play more tables. Unlike a physical casino where it would be nearly impossible to play multiple tables at once, most online poker rooms allow a player to be on up to 4 tables at once. For example, a player may make around $10 per 100 hands at a lower limit game. In a casino, this would earn them under $4 an hour, which minus dealer tips would probably barely break even. In an online poker room, the same player with the same win rate could play four tables at once, which at 60 hands per hour each would result in an earning of $24/hour, which is a modest salary for somebody playing online poker. Some online players even play eight or more tables at once, in an effort to increase their winnings.

Another important change results from the fact that online poker rooms, in some cases, offer online poker schools that teach the basics and significantly speed up the learning curve for novices. Many online poker rooms also provide free money play so that players may practice these skills in various poker games and limits without the risk of losing real money. People who previously had no way to learn and improve because they had no one to play with now have the ability to learn the game much more quickly and gain invaluable experience from free money play.
 

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