Poker terminology - Terms with a "P"

Pa Ferguson - Five-card stud with high card on board and all cards like it as wild.
 
Pace - See Betting Pace, Game Pace, and Hand Pace.
 
Pack - The deck of cards.
 
Packet - A portion of the pack.
 
Paint - A face card in a lowball hand.
 
Pair - Two cards of the same value.
 
Palmed Card - A card concealed for future use by a cheater.
 
Pan or Panguingue - A form of rummy played in some Nevada casinos and California poker clubs.
 
Paperwork - Markings added to cards by cheaters.
 
Partners - Collusion cheaters.
 
Pass - To check or drop out instead of betting.
 
Pass and Out - A game in which checking is not allowed on the first round.
 
Pass the Deal - To relinquish one's turn to deal.
 
Pass the Trash (Garbage) - A high-low stud game involving the exchanging of cards among players.
 
Pass-Out - To fold when a bet or a fold is required.
 
Passed Pot - When no one opens the pot.
 
Passive - A style of play that is characterized by reluctance to bet and raise.
 
Pasteboard - A card.
 
Pat Hand - A hand in which the player keeps all his cards without drawing or twisting new cards.
 
Patience Poker - See Crosscards.
 
Pay Off - To call a bet by a player you're pretty sure can beat you.
 
Peek Poker - Seven-card stud.
 
Peeker or Peeper - (l) One who looks at an active player's hand (2) A cheater who peeks at cards yet to be dealt.
 
Peep and Turn - See Mexican Stud.
 
Pelter (Bracket) - A five-card hand containing a two, five, nine, and one card either a three or a four, and the other card either a six, seven or eight (Skeet).
 
Penalties - See Bonus.
 
Penny Ante - A very low-stake game.
 
Penultimate Card - The next to the last card in the deck.
 
Percentage - (1) The house cut. (2) Probabilities expressed as percentages.
 
Perdue - Cards turned down.
 
Perfect - You need perfect cards when you only have one way to make a hand.
 
Perfect Low - An unbeatable lowball hand, such as ace, two, three, four, five, or ace, two, three, four, six, or two, three, four, five, seven depending on the game.
 
Philosopher - A cardsharp.
 
Pick Up Checks - To allow a player to bet or raise the limit for every check made before his play.
 
Picture Card - A jack, queen, or king.
 
Pig in the Poke - See Wild Widow.
 
Pigeon - (1) An easy player or a sucker. (2) A valuable card for a hand.
 
Pile - A player's money.
 
Pinch - Five dollars.
 
Pineapple Hold 'em - A hold 'em variation involving three hole cards and discarding one.
 
Pink Eye (Red Eye) - A pink-tinted contact lens worn by a cheater to identify marked cards or luminous readers. (See Luminous Readers)
 
Pips - The spots or marks on the face of a card.
 
Piranha - An aggressive bettor.
 
Pistol Stud - See Hole-Card Stud.
 
Place and Show Tickets Split Pot with Twist Your Neighbor - A game in which cards are drawn from hands of other players and the pot is split between the second and third best hands.
 
Place Tickets - (1) The second best hand. (2) Draw poker in which the second best hand wins.
 
Play - To call or stay in
 
Play Back - To declare a false stake in table stakes.
 
Play the Board - You’re playing the board in flop games if your best five card hand uses the five community cards.
 
Played Card - A card dealt to a hand.
 
Poch - The best pair, three of a kind, or four of a kind.
 
Pochen - A German card game from which the name poker was partly derived.
 
Pocket - The two cards dealt to you face down in Hold’Em, or the in seven-card stud.
 
Pocket Pair - Two pocket cards of the same rank.
 
Point - The value of a card.
 
Poker - A money-management game that uses cards for manipulation and deception for winning.
 
Poker Diamond - A diagram that measures the idealness of a game.
 
Poker Dice - Cubical dice, each with a nine, ten, jack, queen, king, and ace on its six faces.
 
Poker Face - A face not showing any emotion or change in expression.
 
Poker Rules - A loose, flexible framework of traditions for playing poker.
 
Poker Solitaire - See Crosscards.
 
Pone - The player on the dealer's right.
 
Pool - A pot.
 
Poque - (1) A French card game from which the name of poker was partly derived. (2) A French betting expression.
 
Position - The relative situation of a player to the other players (Fundamental Position, Seat Position, Technical Position).
 
Position Bet - A bet made more on the strength of one's position at the table than on the strength of one's hand.
 
Post - To post a bet is to place your chips in the pot.
 
Pot - The area in which antes, bets, and raises are placed.
 
Pot Limit - Poker stakes in which the maximum permitted bet is the size of the pot.
 
Pot odds - The amount of money it will cost you to call a bet according to ratio of the amount of money in the pot.
 
Pot-Limit Dig - Pot-Limit poker with no table-stake restrictions.
 
Pothooks - Nines.
 
Poverty Poker - A game in which a player can lose only a predetermined amount, after which he can play with the winners' money.
 
Powerhouse - A very strong hand.
 
Premium - See Bonus.
 
Presto - A nickname for pocket 5's in Hold’Em.
 
Primero - An old, betting card game of Spanish origin.
 
Private Poker - Poker played without money being cut for the house or for the host's profit.
 
Proctor and Gamble - A game with four cards in each hand and three rolled table cards with the last card and all like it as wild.
 
Progression of Bets - The increase in betting limits for each round of betting.
 
Progressive Poker - A game in which the ante, bets, and opener requirements increase after a passed pot.
 
Prop - Short for a proposition player.
 
Proposition Player - A proposition player is a player who is paid by a Cardroom to play poker.
 
Protect - To bet so as to reduce the changes of anyone outdrawing you by the getting them to fold.
 
Provider - A provider (or Fish) is a poker player who makes the game profitable for the other players at the table.
 
Public Poker - Poker played in gambling casinos or in public card clubs in which the pots are cut for profit.
 
Pull Through - A false shuffling technique used by cheaters.
 
Punching - Marking cards with pinpricks.
 
Punters - Those who gamble against the banker.
 
Puppy Feet - Clubs.
 
Puppy Foot - The ace of clubs.
 
Push - Passing unwanted cards to players on one's left.
 
Pushka - An arrangement between two or more players to share part of the pots they win.
 
Put Up - To pay money owed to the pot.