Glossary

A higher minimum buy-in applied after repeated departures with winnings and returns with smaller stacks.

Used in: Leaving a poker table and returning with less money are different decisions

Asking floor staff to time a slow decision; WSOP Rule 80 sets the sequence and the dead-hand consequence.

Used in: What is slow rolling poker: what the posted rules say and what players merely expect

The paper-based material a card is printed on. Fournier lists a smooth stock and an embossed stock alongside a fully plastic card.

Used in: A casino deck is a working object

Fournier’s term for the cutting system it says ensures all cards are exactly the same size with perfectly rounded edges.

Used in: A casino deck is a working object

Players working together or sharing knowledge to gain an unfair advantage, in PokerStars’ description; private messaging does not make shared information harmless.

Used in: What should you say in an online poker table’s chat?, A slow roll is a conduct question before it is a penalty

In RTS 17’s guidance, the items a studio uses up in play, such as cards. They should be of commercial casino quality and kept under access controls.

Used in: A casino deck is a working object

A behaviour a source condemns without naming a penalty for it, however strongly it is condemned.

Used in: Online poker etiquette is not written down, What is slow rolling poker: what the posted rules say and what players merely expect

A broad house-rule provision that expects ethical play and describes consequences for unethical conduct, whether or not the conduct is named.

Used in: A slow roll is a conduct question before it is a penalty

Repeated or excessive messages, listed with abusive messages and harassment among the conduct the cardroom rules prohibit.

Used in: What should you say in an online poker table’s chat?

The identifier the room gives a hand, which lets a report point at one event rather than a general complaint.

Used in: A slow roll is a conduct question before it is a penalty

Joining a table with a minimum buy-in and leaving straight after a winning pot; treated as manners, not a rule, on the page read.

Used in: Leaving a poker table and returning with less money are different decisions

The mathematical expected loss expressed as a proportion of the stake for a defined rule set.

Used in: The posted rules belong to the table

The room where a dealer deals physical cards to an online audience. RTS 17 requires those operations to be fair and independently auditable.

Used in: A casino deck is a working object

A rule that exists to settle an ambiguity in physical play, such as a string bet or acting out of turn, rather than to police conduct.

Used in: Online poker etiquette is not written down

Help from a tool or programme that tells a player how to play and what action to take, as PokerStars defines it; prohibited on its platform.

Used in: What should you say in an online poker table’s chat?

The Gambling Commission's remote technical standard on limiting collusion and cheating in peer-to-peer games.

Used in: Online poker etiquette is not written down, What should you say in an online poker table’s chat?, A slow roll is a conduct question before it is a penalty

A clause on the operator's own published rules or terms page with a specific consequence attached: a penalty, a ban, or confiscation.

Used in: Online poker etiquette is not written down

Coming back to the table you left within a stated window, which the operator can treat as the same sitting.

Used in: Leaving a poker table and returning with less money are different decisions

An automatic seating system for cash games with its own early-departure condition.

Used in: Leaving a poker table and returning with less money are different decisions

The point at which the remaining players reveal their hands to decide the pot.

Used in: A slow roll is a conduct question before it is a penalty

Taking a long time over a decision before showdown; used here in that plain sense, not the strategy sense of under-betting a strong hand.

Used in: What is slow rolling poker: what the posted rules say and what players merely expect

Deliberately delaying a call or the reveal of a winning hand; the term joins an observed delay to a claim about intention.

Used in: A slow roll is a conduct question before it is a penalty, What is slow rolling poker: what the posted rules say and what players merely expect

The amount put at risk in a particular bet.

Used in: Online poker etiquette is not written down, Leaving a poker table and returning with less money are different decisions, A slow roll is a conduct question before it is a penalty

A wager whose physical chip movement is ambiguous: does returning to the stack mean the raise is still being assembled, or does it signal more is coming?

Used in: Online poker etiquette is not written down

The service’s allotted decision time; PokerStars says it is not protection against disconnections.

Used in: What should you say in an online poker table’s chat?, What is slow rolling poker: what the posted rules say and what players merely expect

The numerical code Fournier says is printed on each deck, which lets a specific deck be identified after it leaves the factory.

Used in: A casino deck is a working object

A PokerStars poker format that some of these pages exclude and others include; the scope is stated per page.

Used in: Leaving a poker table and returning with less money are different decisions