Q
(n) Abbreviation for a queen, usually found only in written text about cards. Q
, for example, is the queen of spades.
quackers
(n; imitative) Deuces. (Deuces are sometimes called ducks, as in Dewey Duck.)
quad
(adj) Pertaining to quads, as quad 8s.
(n) four of a kind.
(n) four of a kind.
(n) qualifiers.
(n) 1. openers. 2. In a high-low split game, a particular holding (or better) that a player must have to win the low half or high half of a pot, as, for example, 8-or-better.
(n) Pertaining to a hand, have qualifiers. "Your hand is a nine; it doesn't qualify."
quart
(n) Four cards in sequence of the same suit, that is, four to a straight flush.
1. (n) $25 or a $25 chip. 2. (adj) Pertaining to $25, as a quarter chip. 3. (v) In a split-pot game, split either the low or the high half of the pot with another player; usually part of the phrase get quartered. This happens frequently in Omaha/8. "I didn't bet my ace-deuce because I was afraid I'd get quartered."
quarter check
(n phrase) quarter chip.
quarter chip
(n phrase) See quarter.
quartered
(adj) Winning one-fourth of a pot, usually due to splitting the low half of the pot in a high-low split game.
quarter game
(n phrase) 1. A small home poker game, in which the stakes generally are nickels, dimes, and quarters. Also, nickel-dime-quarter game. 2. Any small-stakes game. Compare with penny-ante game.
queen
(n) A face card, the one that ranks between the jack and the king.
queen high
1. (n phrase) In high poker, a no pair hand whose highest card is a queen. "I have a queen high; can you beat that?" "Yeah, I got king high." 2. In low poker, a hand topped by a queen.
queen-high
(adj) Pertaining to a straight or flush topped by a queen. "I was drawing to a queen-high flush but all I made was queen high."
(n phrase) A full house consisting of three queens and another pair.
queens over
(n phrase) 1. queens up. 2. queens full.
(n phrase) two pair, the higher of which are queens.
queer
(n) Any of several cheating devices, such as a holdout machine.
quinine
(n; imitative) 1. In lowball, a 9. 2. In hold 'em, Q-9 as one's first two cards.
quint
(n) straight flush.
quint major
(n phrase) royal flush.
quit
(v) 1. Cash in your chips and leave a game. 2. fold.
quitting time
(n phrase) In a home game, the prearranged time at which the game is supposed to end. (This is often violated when the losers insist on playing "just one more round" or "just another hour" in a usually-vain attempt to recoup their losses, and the winners sometimes accommodate them, knowing the losers will likely lose even more.)
quorum
(n) The minimum number of players, usually six, required to start a poker game.
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