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The term burn means to discard the top card from the deck rather than deal it to the table. For example, in live Hold’em games, it’s common for the dealer to burn cards before dealing on every street. This is done to protect against cheating, or in case the value of the top card had been accidentally revealed to any player at the table.

The bubble is the situation in a poker tournament right before the prize pool is reached. Every player knows that if he busts out of the tournament right now, he’ll walk away with nothing. This creates a dynamic where a large number of the shorter stacks are simply trying to ‘hold on’ until that last player busts. Although the largest bubble is always right before reaching the prize pool, miniature bubbles can be created any time there is a considerable jump in payout.

The bring-in is the first player to act in a Stud game. In regular seven card Stud, the bring-in is the player that has the lowest ranked up-card on third street. The term bring-in is also refers to the amount of chips that a player occupying this position must place into the pot before acting on third street (a little bit like the blinds in Hold’em). He can either “check” and just pay the bring-in or he can “complete” (raise) to the small bet amount.

A bounty is a prize that is won for knocking out a player either from a knockout tournament or a bounty tournament. In knockout tournaments players receive a small bounty (monetary prize) every time they knock another player out of the tournament. This is all added together along with any prize pool payments to make a total payout at the end of the tournament. Bounty tournaments are very similar but the bounty is often considerably larger and awarded for knocking out a specific player (or players) usually a celebrity or high profile player.

A bot is a non-human poker player. It’s a piece of software that makes automated decisions at the poker table based on the code it has been given by a bot developer. Bots are very useful for learning about and studying the game of poker, but not all bots are a good thing. In the online world, bots are commonly used in online poker games to try and cheat legitimate players out of their chips. Of course, if they are caught, the poker room will ban the bots since they are against the terms and conditions of most poker sites. The term bot may also occasionally be used to describe a human player who has a rigid, robotic playing style and plays very long sessions.

In poker the term board refers to any group of cards visible to the entire table. In community card games such as Hold’em and Omaha, the term board is used to describe any of the flop, turn or river cards visible to the entire table. In poker games such as stud the term board can be used to described any of each players available upcards which are visible to the entire table.