What Are the 20 Most Commonly Used Poker Words? 🃏🤔

[Pitonealal]

Hello everyone!

I noticed something interesting when communicating with both beginners and experienced players — poker has its own mini-language. You hear it at every table: terms, slang, abbreviations and concepts that every player should know... but everyone seems to list different ones.

Some people think that the most important words are technical (equity, range, EV, SPR).
Others say that the table is dominated by slang (tilt, cooler, nit, fish, reg).
And there are also terms derived from the online game (3-bet, cont-bet, open-rise, push-up, iso-rise).

So this got me thinking:
👉 What are the 20 most popular poker words do you think every player hears all the time?

It can be:

Technical Concepts

Table slang

Online Shortcuts

Terms applicable to the tournament only

Language of cache games

Or even funny local phrases used by players


I wonder how different people rank them and whether the community will agree or if they will all have completely different lists.

Don't list them here — write your 20 words in the comments!
Let's see which ones appear most often. 📝🔥

 

[KeyPatience]

Nuts! 😂🌰🌰😂

 

[chicbulls2]

WTF is happening

 

[menken7777]

Burn Card

 

[watup]

Something like, position, stack, range, odds and outs

 

[kittykittykat]

Fish, suck out, bingo player calling box.

 

[Sunz of Beaches]

Rigged

 

[Like2Play2]

Under the gun

 

[Hospedar]

Everyone is giving different answers, mine will be: "Are you crazy!? Why'd you call that!?" (phrase commonly used after a failed bluff be caught by the worst hero call ever 😅).

 

[perrywh]

Call, raise, all in

 

[dompoker]

I don't really know many words that are used in poker, for me the most used, when you say a hand, bluff, streak. bankroll, I think those are the only words I know, thank you for the questions.

 

[Sos1l]

I love drow, flop set,dry\wet bord, barrels,exploit.vpip\pfr🤔

 

[anbu210]

1. All-in
2. Call
3. Fold
4. Raise
5. Bluff
6. Check
7. C-bet
8. Pot
9. Nuts
10. Draw
11. Tilt
12. Bad Beat
13. Cooler
14. Equity
15. Range
16. Position
17. Hero Call
18. Value Bet
19. Check-raise
20. Fish / Whale

 

[Kenzie 96]

online poker is rigged!
Can't believe I lost with Pocket A's.
Can't believe everyone folded pre to my poc A's.

 

[pokerV]

Here are the three I probably use the most:

all in, bluff, pocket __.