- rabbit hunt
- After a hand is over, a rabbit hunt means to reveal the last card that would have come up in a community card game with a fixed number of cards. Such activity is usually prohibited in casinos.
- rack
- 1. A collection of 100 chips of the same denomination, usually arranged in 5 stacks in a plastic tray.
- 2. A plastic tray used for storing a rack of chips.
- rags
- Worthless (or apparently worthless) cards. Most often refers to small cards in high-hand games, while high cards in low games are more often called “bricks” or “bombs”. Also “blank”.
- rail
- The rail is the sideline at a poker table – the (often imaginary) rail separating spectators from the field of play. Watching from the rail means watching a poker game as a spectator. People on the rail are sometimes called railbirds.
- rainbow
- Three or four cards of different suits, especially said of a flop.
- rakeback
- Rebate/repayment to a player of a portion the rake paid by the player, normally from a non-cardroom, third-party source such as an affiliate. Applies only to online poker.
- ram and jam
- To aggressively bet, raise, and reraise.
- ratholing
- To “go south”.
- rebuy
- An amount of chips purchased after the buy-in.
- redeal
- To deal a hand again, possibly after a misdeal.
- redraw
- To make one hand and have a draw for a better hand. Ted made a straight on the turn with a redraw for a flush on the river..
- Second or later draws in a draw game with multiple draws.
- reraise
- Raise after one has been raised. Also coming “over the top”.
- river rat
- A player whose hand was dominated from the start, but improves his hand on the river to win the pot.
- rock
- A very tight player (plays very few hands and only continues with strong hands).
- A bundle of chips held together with a rubber band, or other token signifying an obligatory live straddle. If the player under the gun has the rock, he must use it to post a live straddle. The winner of the pot collects the rock and is obligated to use it in turn.
- rolled-up trips
- In seven-card stud, three of a kind dealt in the first three cards.
- runner
- A tournament entrant, a contestant.
- runner-runner
- A hand made by hitting two consecutive cards on the turn and river. Also “backdoor”.
- rush
- Winning streak. A player who has won several big pots recently is said to be on a rush.
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