Kicker
The highest extra card in your hand that doesn’t participate in a straight or flush. The card does not contribute to the strength of your hand except by itself.
For example, if you hold KK88A, you have two pair, kings and eights with an ace kicker. Five-card hands (straights, flushes, and full houses) don’t have kickers. In games that have community cards kickers can be very important as it is easy for two players to hold similar hands. For example, if you hold KQ and someone else holds KJ, and the flop is AK975, you have your opponent out-kicked. Your hand is AKKQ9 while theirs is AKKJ9.
Ladies
A slang name for a Pair of Queens.
Laydown
To ‘laydown’ simply means to fold, but usually refers to a good fold or good ‘laydown’ where it was a difficult decision to lay down a strong hand, but ultimately, it was the correct decision.
Limp
To ‘limp’ is to call a bet rather than raise. Usually refers to when a player calls the big blind with a weak hand in order to see the flop.
It can also refer to a player that calls the blind with a very strong hand, which would usually warrant a raise, such as ‘limping in with aces’.
LMAO
This is an online poker room chat abbreviation for Laugh My Ass Off, which means to laugh more than indicated by the term LOL.
LOL
Online Poker Room abbreviation for Laugh Out Loud. It’s a way to express laughing at something or someone. Variations that don’t really make any sense are LOLOL and LOOOOOL. These don’t stand for anything, but are used to mean ‘very’ funny.
Some people think this means Lots Of Love. At the poker tables, it doesn’t.
Maniac
A Maniac is a term for a very loose and usually very aggressive player, that plays almost any hand and usually bets and raises instead of checking and calling.
NH
Online poker room abbreviation for ‘Nice Hand’. Usually used as a compliment when a player shows a particularly good hand, like a full house. Can also be used sarcastically, or ironically, when for example a player has won with an obviously worthless starting hand.
