Here's a list of the most frequently used poker terms and abbreviations

Satellite: A tournament where players can qualify for much bigger events.

Scoop: To win both the high and the low pot in a hi/lo game.

Shootout: A tournament format where players face each other in parallel ten-player tournaments and the winners of each then face off in another round of ten-player tournaments. Until only one winner remains.

Steam: To lose your temper and start playing badly.

Streak: To be "in the zone" and win with whatever cards you are dealt.

Suited: Starting hand in matching suit – hearts, clubs, spades or diamonds.

Tell: A clue, hint or mannerism that reveals the true strength of a player's hand. In live games often detected through body language. Online, clues are discovered by observing a player's betting patterns.

Tilt: Playing recklessly and badly due to frustration from having lost.

Trap: To play a very strong hand weakly in order to induce costly raises from other players.

Under the Gun: The position to the immediate left of the big blind.

Cutoff: The player sitting before the dealer button

Blinds: The two players on the immediate right of the dealer. Each hand, one player at the table puts in a big blind (BB), and the player in front of him puts in a small blind (SB). In most games, the small blind is half the size of the big blind.

Hand Nicknames:

AA - Pocket Rockets, Bullets, American Airlines

KK - Cowboys, King Kong

QQ - Double date, Canadian Aces, Siegfried and Roy, Ladies

JJ - Fish hooks

99 - Wayne Gretzky

88 - Snowmen

77 - Sunset strip

66 - Route 66

55 - Speed limit

44 - Magnum, Sail boat

33 - Crabs

22 - Ducks

AK - Big slick

AQ - Big chick

AJ - Black Jack, Jack-ass, A-jax

KQ - Royalty, Marriage

KJ - Kojak

J5 - Jackson five

Q3 - Gay waiter

95 - Dolly Parton

A8 - Dead man's hand (Wild Bill Hickok was shot in 1876 after winning with it!)

K9 - Canine

J4 - Flat tyre

93 - The Sik