Positions, actions, hand rankings, maths and the vocabulary specific to Short Deck. Every English term is listed with its Traditional and Simplified Chinese equivalent.
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| Term | 中文（繁／簡） | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| Button (BTN / BU) | 按鈕位 / 按钮位 | The dealer seat. Acts last on every post-flop street; under the ante structure, last pre-flop too. |
| Small Blind (SB) | 小盲 | First seat left of the button; posts a forced bet. |
| Big Blind (BB) | 大盲 | Second seat left of the button; posts a forced bet, usually twice the small blind. |
| Under the Gun (UTG) | 槍口位 / 枪口位 | First seat left of the big blind; first to act pre-flop. |
| Hijack (HJ) | 劫持位 | Two seats right of the button. |
| Cutoff (CO) | 關煞位 / 关煞位 | One seat right of the button; a common spot to open wide. |
| Early / Middle / Late Position (EP / MP / LP) | 前位 / 中位 / 後位 | The three bands defined by how early you act. |
| In Position (IP) | 有位置 | Acting after your opponent; you see their action first. |
| Out of Position (OOP) | 無位置 / 无位置 | Acting before your opponent. |
| Heads-up (HU) | 單挑 / 頭對頭 / 单挑 / 头对头 | Two players. Under standard rules the button acts as the small blind: first to act pre-flop, last on every post-flop street. Under ante-only (Short Deck): the button posts 2×ante, the opponent 1×ante; the opponent acts first pre-flop, the button still acts last post-flop. |
| 6-Max / Full Ring | 六人桌 / 九人桌 | The two most common table sizes. |
| Term | 中文（繁／簡） | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| Ante | 前注 | A fixed contribution from every player each hand, regardless of position. |
| Button Blind | 按鈕盲 / 按钮盲 | The single blind posted only by the button. PokerStars 6+ terminology. |
| Double Ante | 雙倍前注 / 双倍前注 | The button posts two antes. Triton terminology; mechanically the same as a button blind. |
| Ante-only Structure | 前注制 | No blinds: everyone antes and the button posts one extra. See the debate page. |
| Effective Big Blind (effBB) | 有效大盲 | Under ante-only, the button's total contribution (2 × ante). Used to size bets — the "x" in "open to 3x" is effBB. For felt depth, divide antes by 3 instead: 100 antes = 50 effBB, but plays like roughly 32 big blinds. |
| Dead Money | 死錢 / 死钱 | Chips already in the pot that can no longer act — antes and blinds included. |
| Straddle | 抓位加注 | A voluntary third blind from the seat left of the big blind, buying last action pre-flop. |
| Term | 中文（繁／簡） | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| Preflop | 翻牌前 | The betting round before any community cards. |
| Flop | 翻牌 | The first three community cards. |
| Turn | 轉牌 / 转牌 | The fourth community card. |
| River | 河牌 | The fifth and final community card. |
| Street | 街 | One betting round. A hand has four: preflop, flop, turn, river. |
| Hole Cards | 底牌 | Your two private cards. |
| Community Cards | 公共牌 | The five shared cards on the board. |
| Board | 檯面 / 台面 | All community cards dealt so far. |
| Burn Card | 銷牌 / 销牌 | A card discarded before each community card so nobody can read the deck order. |
| Showdown | 攤牌 / 摊牌 | Revealing hands to decide the winner after the final round. |
| Muck | 埋牌 | Discarding your hand face down without showing it. |
| Term | 中文（繁／簡） | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| Fold | 棄牌（蓋牌）/ 弃牌（盖牌） | Give up the hand and leave the pot. |
| Check | 過牌（讓牌）/ 过牌（让牌） | Decline to bet when no one has bet, passing action on. |
| Bet | 下注 | Put the first chips into the pot on a street. |
| Call | 跟注 | Match the current bet to stay in the hand. |
| Raise | 加注 | Put in more than the current bet. |
| Re-raise | 再加注 | Raise over someone else's raise. |
| 3-Bet | 三下注 | A re-raise over an open raise. Not "three times" — the size can be 2.5×, 3×, 4×. |
| 4-Bet | 四下注 | A re-raise over a 3-bet. |
| Cold Call | 冷跟 | Calling a bet and a raise at once. |
| Limp | 平跟入池 | Calling rather than raising to enter the pot pre-flop. |
| All-in / Shove / Jam | 全下 | Commit your entire stack. |
| Check-Raise | 過牌加注 / 过牌加注 | Check, then raise once an opponent bets. |
| Continuation Bet (C-Bet) | 持續下注 / 持续下注 | The pre-flop aggressor betting again after the flop. |
| Double / Triple Barrel | 二連／三連開槍 / 二连／三连开枪 | Following through with bets on the turn and river. |
| Donk Bet | 突擊下注 / 突击下注 | Betting into the pre-flop aggressor as the non-aggressor. |
| Float | 漂浮跟注 | Calling with a weak hand intending to take the pot away later. |
| Probe Bet | 探測下注 / 探测下注 | Betting out of position after the pre-flop aggressor declines to c-bet. |
| Slow Play | 慢打 | Under-representing a strong hand to induce more chips. |
| Bluff | 詐唬（偷雞）/ 诈唬（偷鸡） | Betting or raising with a weak hand to make opponents fold. |
| Semi-Bluff | 半詐唬 / 半诈唬 | Betting with a hand that isn't made yet but can improve. |
| Value Bet | 價值下注 / 价值下注 | Betting expecting to be called by worse. |
| Overbet | 超池下注 | Betting more than the size of the pot. |
| Squeeze | 擠壓 / 挤压 | Re-raising big after an open raise and one or more callers. |
| Fold Equity | 棄牌權益 / 弃牌权益 | The portion of expected value that comes from opponents folding. |
| Term | 中文（繁／簡） | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| Royal Flush | 皇家同花順 / 皇家同花顺 | 10-J-Q-K-A of one suit. In Short Deck it still has to be exactly these five. |
| Straight Flush | 同花順 / 同花顺 | Five consecutive cards of one suit. |
| Four of a Kind (Quads) | 四條（鐵支 / 炸彈）/ 四条（铁支 / 炸弹） | Four cards of the same rank. 鐵支 (tiězhī) is the standard Taiwanese/HK/Macao alias; 炸彈 (zhàdàn, "bomb") usually refers to four-of-a-kind with a joker/wild card, but plain quads is also called that colloquially. |
| Flush | 同花 | Five cards of one suit. With only nine per suit in Short Deck it is harder than a full house, so it ranks above it. |
| Full House (Boat) | 葫蘆（滿堂紅）/ 葫芦（满堂红） | Three of a kind plus a pair. |
| Straight | 順子 / 顺子 | Five consecutive cards of mixed suits. |
| Three of a Kind (Trips / Set) | 三條 / 三条 | Three cards of the same rank. |
| Two Pair | 兩對 / 两对 | Two pairs. |
| One Pair | 一對 / 一对 | A single pair. |
| High Card | 高牌 | No made hand; decided by the highest card. |
| Term | 中文（繁／簡） | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| Pocket Pair | 口袋對子 / 口袋对子 | Two hole cards of the same rank. |
| Set | 暗三條 / 暗三条 | Trips made from a pocket pair plus one board card — very disguised. |
| Trips | 明三條 / 明三条 | Trips made from a board pair plus one hole card — easier to spot. |
| Top Pair | 頂對 / 顶对 | Pairing a hole card with the highest board card. |
| Bottom Pair | 底對 / 底对 | Pairing a hole card with the lowest board card. |
| Overpair | 超對 / 超对 | A pocket pair higher than any board card. |
| Top Set | 頂三條 / 顶三条 | A set made with the highest board card. |
| Kicker | 踢腳 / 踢脚 | The side card that breaks ties when the main hand matches. |
| Suited (s) | 同花（起手）/ 同花（起手） | Two hole cards of the same suit, written AKs. |
| Offsuit (o) | 不同花（雜色）/ 不同花（杂色） | Two hole cards of different suits, written AKo. |
| Connector | 連牌 / 连牌 | Two hole cards of adjacent rank, like 9-10 or J-Q. |
| Suited Connector | 同花連牌 / 同花连牌 | A connector of one suit — especially valuable in Short Deck. |
| One-Gapper | 間隔連牌 / 间隔连牌 | Two cards with a single rank in between, like 10-8. |
| Broadway | 最大順子 / 最大顺子 | 10-J-Q-K-A. |
| Wheel | 最小順子 / 最小顺子 | A-2-3-4-5 in standard Hold'em; A-6-7-8-9 in Short Deck. |
| Nuts | 堅果牌 / 坚果牌 | The best possible hand on this board — cannot be beaten. |
| Second Nuts | 次堅果牌 / 次坚果牌 | The second-best possible hand. |
| Draw | 聽牌 / 听牌 | A hand that isn't made yet but can improve. |
| Flush Draw | 聽同花 / 听同花 | One card away from a flush. |
| Open-Ended Straight Draw (OESD) | 兩頭聽順 / 两头听顺 | A straight draw that completes at either end. |
| Gutshot | 卡順聽牌 / 卡顺听牌 | A straight draw needing one specific inside card. |
| Backdoor Draw | 後門聽牌 / 后门听牌 | Needs both the turn and the river to come good. |
| Outs | 出路張 / 出路张 | The remaining cards that would improve your hand. |
| Rainbow | 彩虹面 | A flop of three different suits. |
| Blank | 空牌 | A card that changes almost nothing. |
| Wet / Dry Board | 濕牌面 / 乾牌面 · 湿牌面 / 干牌面 | A board with many draws available / very few. |
| Paired Board | 成對牌面 / 成对牌面 | A board containing a pair. |
| Dominated Hand | 受控牌 | A hand destined to lose to an opponent's range, like A-6 against A-K. |
| Coin Flip | 五五波 | A near-50/50 race, such as a pair against two overcards. |
| Bad Beat | 爆冷 | A heavy favourite losing to a long shot. |
| Cooler | 冤家牌 | Two strong hands colliding; near-unavoidable. |
| Term | 中文（繁／簡） | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| Pot | 底池 | All chips wagered so far. |
| Main Pot / Side Pot | 主池 / 邊池 · 主池 / 边池 | When someone is all-in, the pot splits into the part they can win and the rest. |
| Pot Odds | 底池賠率 / 底池赔率 | The ratio between the cost of calling and the pot you stand to win. |
| M-ratio / M-value | M 值 | Stack divided by the total forced contribution for one orbit (one round of the button). Coined by Dan Harrington: how many orbits you survive playing no hands at all. Ante-only burns M faster than blinds, which is exactly why 100 antes ≈ 32 big blinds. |
| Implied Odds | 隱含賠率 / 隐含赔率 | Extra chips you expect to win on later streets when you make your hand. |
| Equity | 勝率（權益）/ 胜率（权益） | Your share of the pot over the long run against a given range. |
| Expected Value (EV) | 期望值 | The average profit or loss of an action over the long run. |
| Effective Stack | 有效籌碼 / 有效筹码 | The smaller of the two stacks involved. |
| Stack Depth | 籌碼深度 / 筹码深度 | Stack size expressed in big blinds (or effBB under ante-only). |
| Short Stack / Deep Stack | 短碼 / 深碼 · 短码 / 深码 | Stack small or large relative to the stakes. |
| Buy-in / Rebuy | 買入 / 補碼 · 买入 / 补码 | Chips you sit down with / add after losing them. |
| Rake | 抽水 | The fee the operator takes from each hand. |
| Range | 範圍 / 范围 | Every hand an opponent could hold in a given spot. |
| Polarized Range | 極化範圍 / 极化范围 | A range of only very strong and very weak hands, nothing in between. |
| Capped Range | 封頂範圍 / 封顶范围 | A range whose actions rule out the strongest hands. |
| VPIP | 主動入池率 / 主动入池率 | Share of hands where you voluntarily put money in before the flop. Forced money does not count: paying only the ante, or checking in the big blind when nobody raised, is not VPIP — calling, raising, or completing the small blind is. Typical: tight-aggressive 18–25%, normal 6-max 22–30%, loose-aggressive 28–38%. The gap to PFR reads style: under 3 is aggressive, over 10 is passive. |
| PFR | 翻前加注率 | Share of hands where you raised preflop, re-raises included. A subset of VPIP: VPIP counts calls and raises, PFR counts raises only. The gap reads style — under 3 means you raise when you enter (aggressive); over 10 means you mostly limp or call in (passive). |
| Aggression Factor (AF) | 激進度 / 激进度 | Ratio of bets and raises to calls. |
| Variance | 波動 / 波动 | How spread out short-term results are. Higher in Short Deck than in standard Hold'em. |
| Downswing | 下行期 | A sustained losing stretch. |
| Sample Size | 樣本數 / 样本数 | How many hands a stat needs before it means anything. |
| GTO (Game Theory Optimal) | 博弈最優 / 博弈最优 | A strategy balance that cannot be exploited. |
| Exploitative Play | 剝削打法 / 剥削打法 | Deviating to attack a specific opponent's leaks. |
| Bankroll | 資金 / 资金 | The total money set aside for poker. |
| Tilt | 失控（上頭）/ 失控（上头） | Playing badly because you lost emotional control. |
| Term | 中文（繁／簡） | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| Fish | 魚 / 鱼 | A weaker player. |
| Whale | 大魚 / 大鱼 | A weak player with a lot of money on the table. |
| Shark | 鯊魚 / 鲨鱼 | A player well above the table's average skill. |
| Calling Station | 跟注站 | A player who almost never folds. |
| Nit / Rock | 岩石 | An extremely tight player. |
| LAG / TAG | 鬆凶 / 緊凶 · 松凶 / 紧凶 | Loose-aggressive / tight-aggressive. |
| Regular (Reg) | 常客 | A pro or semi-pro who plays a stake consistently. |
| Term | 中文（繁／簡） | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| Short Deck | 短牌 | The Hold'em variant with 2 through 5 removed. |
| Six Plus Hold'em (6+ Hold'em) | 六張以上德州 / 六张以上德州 | Another name for Short Deck — the lowest card is a six. |
| 36-Card Deck | 36 張牌 / 36 张牌 | Nine ranks × four suits; sixteen fewer cards than standard Hold'em. |
| Wheel (Short Deck) | 輪子順子 / 轮子顺子 | The lowest straight, A-6-7-8-9, where the nine is the high card. |
| Rank Swap | 牌型對調 / 牌型对调 | Short Deck swaps flush and full house — the only ranking change. |
| A plays as 5 | A 當 5 / A 当 5 | In Short Deck the ace is both the highest and lowest card: it completes 10-J-Q-K-A at the top and A-6-7-8-9 at the bottom (nine-high). The single most overlooked rule in the game. |
| Short Deck Home Standard | 短牌之家建議標準 / 短牌之家建议标准 | The standard proposed on this site: flush > full house, straight > trips, together with an ante from everyone plus one extra on the button. |
| Triton Poker Series | 高額撲克巡迴賽 / 高额扑克巡回赛 | The high-stakes tour that televised Short Deck from 2018 and introduced it to a global audience. |