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Poker Terms from F to M

• FULL HOUSE: A hand consisting of three of a kind and a pair.
• HAND:
  
  1. All a player's personal cards.
  2. The five cards determining the poker ranking.
  3. A single poker deal.
• HEADS-UP PLAY: Only two players involved in play.
• INSURANCE: A side agreement when someone is all in for a player in a pot to put up money that guarantees a payoff of a set amount in case the opponent wins the pot.
• JOKER: The joker is a "partially wild card" in high draw poker and ace-to-five lowball. In high, it is used for aces, straights, and flushes. In lowball, the joker is the lowest unmatched rank in a hand.
• KANSAS CITY LOWBALL: A form of draw poker low also known as deuce-to-seven, in which the best hand is 7-5-4-3-2 and straights and flushes count against you.
• Kicker: The highest unpaired card that helps determine the value of a five-card poker hand.
• KILL (OR KILL BLIND): An oversize blind, usually twice the size of the big blind and doubling the limit. Sometimes a "half-kill" increasing the blind and limits by fifty percent is used. A kill can be either voluntary or mandatory. The most common requirements of a mandatory kill are for winning two pots in a row at lowball and other games, or for scooping a pot in high-low split.
• KILL BUTTON: A button used in a lowball game to indicate a player who has won two pots in a row and is required to kill the pot.
• KILL POT: A pot with a forced kill by the winner of the two previous pots, or the winner of an entire pot of sufficient size in a high-low split game. (Some pots can be voluntarily killed.)
• Late Position: A position in which you act after most of the other players during a round.
• LEG UP: Being in a situation equivalent to having won the previous pot, and thus liable to have to kill the following pot if you win the current pot.
• LIVE BLIND: A blind bet giving a player the option of raising if no one else has raised.
• LIST: The ordered roster of players waiting for a game.
• LOCK-UP: A chip marker that holds a seat for a player.
• Loose: Playing more hands than normal.
• Loose Game: A game with a lot of players in most hands.
• LOWBALL: A draw game where the lowest hand wins.
• LOWCARD: The lowest card facing up at seven-card stud, which is required to bet.
• Middle Pair: Pairing the second highest card on the board.
• Middle Position: A position in which you act somewhere between most of the other players during a round.
• MISCALL: An incorrect verbal declaration of the ranking of a hand.
• MISDEAL: A mistake on the dealing of a hand which causes the cards to be reshuffled and a new hand to be dealt.
• MISSED BLIND: A required bet that is not posted when it is your turn to do so.
• MUCK:
  
  1. The pile of discards gathered facedown in the center of the table by the dealer.
  2. To discard a hand.
• MUST-MOVE: In order to protect the main game, a situation where the players of a second game must move into the first game as openings occur.