All poker games use the same lingo, more or less. 5 card stud is a form of stud poker and all online casinos that feature the game uses the poker lingo when addressing 5 card stud issues. Excellent Online Casinos has gathered every important poker term you need in order to have some online casinos 5 card stud fun time. The following is all a poker fan needs to know:

• Action 1. Opportunity to act. When it is your turn to act, the action is said to be on you. 2. Betting activity. There is said to be a lot of action when there have been numerous bets and raises.
• American Airlines A pair of Aces.
• Ante A small bet all players are required to make before a hand is dealt. Usually used in Stud games and the latter stages of No Limit Hold'em tournaments.
• Backdoor Catching both the turn and river card to make your hand. For instance, if the turn and river cards are both spades and make you a spade flush you have made a backdoor flush.
• Bad Beat A hand that is a big favorite to win, beaten by a hand that was very unlikely to win.
• Bankroll Current total gambling funds available. Often shortened to roll.
• Blank A board card that doesn't seem to affect the standings in the hand.
• Blind A forced bet (or partial bet) put in by one or more players before any cards are dealt. Typically, blinds are put in by players immediately to the left of the button.
• Bluff A Bet or Raise made with a poor hand in the hope that the opposition will fold.
• Bottom Pair A pair with the lowest card on the flop.
• Bubble The point in a tournament where only one more player has to be eliminated before the prize paying positions.
• Bump Slang for Raise.
• Buy-In The amount of money used to join a game or tournament.
• Call To put into the pot an amount of money equal to the most recent bet or raise.
• Cap To put in the last raise permitted on a betting round. This is typically the third or fourth raise.
• Dead Man's Hand Two pair, aces and eights. So called because it was the hand Wild Bill Hickok was holding when he was shot to death.
• Dealer's Choice A rule that permits the dealer to decide which game to be played that hand.
• Deuce A two.
• Dog Shortened form of "underdog."
• Fast Play To play a hand aggressively, betting and raising as much as possible.
• Fill Up To make a full house.
• High - Low A form of poker in which the pot is split equally between the best high hand and the best low hand.
• Hole Cards The face down cards dealt to each player.
• Lady A queen.
• Late Position Being one of the last players to act in a betting round.
• Limit In a limit or fixed limit game as it is sometimes called the amount players can bet on each betting round is fixed and cannot be varied.
• Live Cards In stud games, cards that have not been exposed.
• Micro-Limit Games so small that they couldn't be profitably dealt in a real cardroom. They exist only at online poker sites. You might arbitrarily call games $.25-.50 and smaller "micro-limit."
• Offsuit A hold'em starting hand with two cards of different suits.
• Overcall To call a bet after one or more others players have already called.
• Pair Two cards of the same rank.
• Pay Off To call a bet when the bettor is representing a hand that you can't beat, but the pot is sufficiently large to justify a call anyway.
• Pocket Starting hole cards in Stud and Hold'em.
• Railbird A spectator.
• Rank The numerical value of a card.
• Re-Buy An option to buy more chips in a tournament.
• Represent Implying, by one's betting pattern, that one has a particular hand.
• Showdown The point at the end of the hand where all players remaining in the hand turn their cards over and determine who has the best hand, and therefore wins the pot.
• Small Blind The smaller of two blind bets typically used in a hold'em or omaha game.
• Split Pot A pot that is shared by two or more players.
• Top Pair A pair with the highest card on the flop.
• Top Set The highest possible three of a kind.
• Top Two Two pair, with your two hole cards pairing the two highest cards on the board.
• Top and Bottom Two pair, with your two hole cards pairing the highest and lowest cards on the board.