Poker Dictionary (H)

Hand:



The best five cards of a players





Heads-up play:



When a game has two players left to play.





High-Low poker:



Where the highest and lowest hands split the pot of the poker game. It is possible to have a hand that’s win both.A-2-3-4-5 is a straight but is also also considered the lowest possible hand(most forms of High-low) . In some forms of high-low, the lowest possible hand is A-2-3-4-6, and in others (although usually this is true only in low-only games), the lowest possible hand is 2-3-4-5-7 (because this hand does not contain an Ace).





Hole cards:



The cards which are down turned that cannot be seen by other players.