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SHORT-STACKED - Playing with a only a small amount of money, thus limiting one's risk and reward.
LOOSE - Playing more hands than the norm. Antonym: TIGHT.
POSSIBLE [STRAIGHT/FLUSH] - Up cards that quite possibly could lead to a straight and/or a flush.
ACTION - Money that is being bet. "NO ACTION" means a hand or game has few bettors and fewer raisers. "Gimme some action" is ostensibly a plea for calls and raises.
BOARD - The exposed cards in Hold'em and stud. Also BOARD CARDS.
PROP - Also PROPOSITION PLAYER. An employee of the gaming establishment whose primary purpose is to keep enough players at a table to prevent breaking up the game for lack of players. Unlike SHILLs "props" make a small hourly wage but play with their own money, winning or losing based on their skill.

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