As with most industries or games though, these colorful terms are part of what makes a game inclusive and special to it’s players. Watching enough televised poker, like on the World Poker Tour, you can start getting a feel for the poker terms that are most commonly used, but sometimes you’ll run into a term that makes you go “Huh?”.
When a poker player says, “I flopped a belly buster on a rainbow board”, when they are really saying that they have an inside straight draw, after the dealer dealt the first three cards, all of which happen to be a different suit. For the uninitiated, these terms can sound like a completely different language but can help accelerate your progress when learning how to play poker. In poker, there is practically a library of poker terms that are commonly used.
