Reraise
A reraise is a raise after a previous raise by someone else.
Reverse tell
Faking tell.
Ring game
A regular game, as opposed to a tournament.
River
The last card is called the river card. In Holdem this is fifth community card put on the board. The river betting round is the last betting round of the hand.
Rock
A usually passive, very tight player.
Sandbagging
A form of slow plays. Usually means calling a bet someone in a later position raises. Sandbagging on the pre-flop round of betting is often called a limp-reraise.
Semi-bluff
A bet made with more cards to come when you probably don’t have the best hand, but have outs if you’re called.
Set
A form of three of a kind where you have two of the rank in your hand and one on the board. Because of the community card nature of Holdem, this is a much stronger hand than three of a kind made with one card from your hand matching a pair on the board. That’s because with a pair on the board any player who has the fourth card of that rank also has three of a kind. If you have, for example, three Kings made as a set, then no other player can hold three Kings.
Shill
A shill is a cardroom employee who helps start new games by sitting in with house money. He doesn’t get any portion of his winnings and is not responsible for his losses. Often he’s given a set of rules to play by; generally he’ll play tight and passive.(See also prop-player and stake-player.)
Showdown
When all the cards are out and all the bets have been equalized, the active hands show themselves to determine what the winning poker hand is.
Side pot
Bets made after one player is all-in are put in a side pot.
