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The term broadway refers to the 5 highest ranked cards in poker; the Ten, Jack, Queen, King and Ace. On their own, each of these cards can be referred to as broadway cards. When all five are held to make the straight (TJQKA) this can be referred to as the broadway straight or just ‘broadway’ for short.
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Royal flush is the best possible hand in poker variants that used the high hand ranking system. It is comprised of the Ten, Jack, Queen, King and Ace all of the same suit. It is technically a type of straight flush, but it beats all other straight flushes. In games where it is possible for two players to make the royal flush at the same time, no specific suit takes precedent; a royal flush will always chop with another royal flush.
Limp means to just call in an unraised pot on the first betting round. It’s typically considered a weak play. It’s generally accepted that players should mostly either raise or fold preflop when the action is folded around to them in an unopened pot. If we are the first player to limp into the pot it’s referred to as an open limp. If a player has already limped before us a limp is referred to as an over limp or limp behind.
The bring-in is the first player to act in a Stud game. In regular seven card Stud, the bring-in is the player that has the lowest ranked up-card on third street. The term bring-in is also refers to the amount of chips that a player occupying this position must place into the pot before acting on third street (a little bit like the blinds in Hold’em). He can either “check” and just pay the bring-in or he can “complete” (raise) to the small bet amount.
A barrel in poker is a bet made after also taking the last aggressive action on the previous betting round. For example, if we make a continuation bet on the flop in Hold’em, a second bet on the turn can be referred to as a “barrel” or a“turnbarrel”. The terms double-barrel and triple-barrel are also commonly used to describe a spot where we bet two or three times consecutively.
