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sailboats
Often referred in a Hold'em game as having a pocket pair of fours
San Francisco Busboy
In Texas Hold'em, being dealt a Queen and a Three ("A Queen and a Trey")
sandbag
To play your hand slowly to gain an advantage in a tournament with a timed blinds structure. Sandbagging can also refer to wasting time before checking in a hand to lure opponents into thinking you have a poor hand. See sandbagging.
satellite
A tournament in which the prize is a free entrance to another (larger) tournament.
scoop
In high-low split games, to win both the high and the low half of the pot.
semi-bluff
A large bet on a drawing hand. A strategy used because of its dual purpose of both possibly winning the pot immediately by forcing your opponents to fold, but still having the potential to win if you are called and subsequently make your hand. See "draw".
set
Three of a kind with two of the cards in the player's hole cards and the third card in the community cards. Often confused with "trips".
set-up
A deck that has been ordered, usually King to Ace by suit (spades, hearts, clubs and diamonds). In casinos, it is customary to use a set-up deck when introducing a new deck to the table. The set-up is spread face up for the players to demonstrate that all of the cards are present before the first shuffle. (Also called to "Spade the deck").
shill
In a legal casino, a shill is a person who plays using the casino's money in order to keep games (e.g. especially poker) going when there are not enough players. (This is different from a proposition player who is paid a salary by the casino for the same purpose, but bets with their own money.) See "proposition player", also see shill
shootout
A tournament format where the last remaining player of a table goes on to play the remaining players of other tables. Each table plays independently of the others; that is, there is no balancing as players are eliminated.
showdown
When the cards are revealed at the end of the game. Also used outside poker to mean facing up to an opponent.
side pot
A separate pot created to deal with the situation of one player going "all in". See table stakes.
Siegfried and Roy
In Texas Hold 'Em, being dealt a pair of Queens
16-way straight draw
A hand in draw poker such as 6? 7? 8? (Joker), in which any of sixteen cards (4 fours, 4 fives, 4 nines, 4 tens) can fill a straight.
slow play
A strategy whereby good cards are played conservatively, with hopes that other players will keep playing the hand and build a larger pot.
slow roll
To delay or avoid showing one's hand at showdown, forcing other players to expose their hands first. When done while holding a good hand likely to be the winner, it is considered poor etiquette, because it often gives other players "false hope" that their hands might win before the slow-roller's is exposed. Also distasteful is to only partially reveal one's hand in the hope that others will fold.
small blind special
A situation in which (assuming no raising) a player is dealt weak hole cards in the small blind, but ends up making the best hand because they got to see a relatively inexpensive flop. See "big blind special".
speeding
To play very loose with no identifiable pattern, or to bluff frequently. Also known as speeding around.
spike
When a flop is spread out, if the first card revealed is the card an underdog needs, they spike that card. More loosely, if any of the flop cards help you, then you spike it. I had Q9 to my opponent's pocket jacks, but I spiked a queen on the flop to take the lead.
splash the pot
To throw one's chips in the pot in a disorderly fashion. Not typically allowed, because the dealer can't tell how much has been bet.
split
One share of a multi-way pot, such as the high hand in a high-low game.
spread
The range between a table's minimum and maximum bets.
stack
A collection of 20 chips of the same denomination, usually arranged in an orderly column.
stakes
The definition of the amount one buys in for and can bet. For example, a "low stakes" game might be a $10 buy-in with a $1 maximum raise.
stand pat
In draw poker, playing the original hand using no draws, either as a bluff or in the belief it is the best hand.
steal
In poker, the term steal is often used as merely a synonym for bluff, but there is a more specific use of the term. See Steal
steam
Act of playing recklessly when one is frustrated. Same as tilt.
steel wheel
A five-high straight flush (A-2-3-4-5 of a single suit). Also known as a lock-lock in Omaha High/Low Split. It is the best possible hand in that game.
stop 'n go
When a player bets into another player who has previously raised or otherwise shown aggression. Example: On the flop, Bill bets into Tom, Tom raises, and Bill just calls. On the turn, Bill bets into Tom again. Bill has just pulled a stop 'n go.
straddle
An optional situation sometimes agreed on in cash games, where the next player from the big blind posts an extra blind (2 × big blind), and gets to act last before the flop.
straight
Hand of five consecutive cards which are not all the same suit.
straight flush
Hand of five consecutive cards of a single suit. The highest of these is the royal flush, or 10 through Ace of one suit.
strategy card
A wallet sized card that is commonly used to help with poker strategies in online and casino games.
string bet
To call with one motion and raise with another, or to reach for more chips in the middle of laying a bet/raise without stating the intended amount. Not typically allowed.
stuck
Having lost money. I'm stuck $300 right now.
stud
A card placed upwards in Stud poker; also, that form of poker itself.
suck out
To draw a winning hand despite poor odds.
sucker straight
This refers to drawing to the lower end of a straight. While a decent hand, it has a high probability of losing. See also "idiot end, ignorant end"
suited
Cards that are of the same suit
super satellite
A multi-table tournament in which the prize is a free entrance to a satellite tournament or a tournament in which all the top finishers gain entrance to a larger tournament.
sweat
To sweat someone is to watch them play from the rail, in order to lend your support.
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