Playing Texas Hold'em Poker might become strenuous and troublesome if you aren't familiar with the jargon. Imagine being in the middle of a poker game and someone asks you to stop 'horsing'. Do you know what he meant?

Read this comprehensive list of the most used texas hold'em poker terms to improve your gaming results the next time you decide to play texas hold'em poker.

Bluff - to raise or to bet even though you know you can't win.

Board Card or Community Card - (relevant to Hold'em or Omaha Poker) a common card placed in the center of the table that all players need to use.

Buy-in: A minimum sum needed to enter a game of poker

California Lowball: Ace to 5 lowball with a joker Throwing a Party - this means that some poker players are entering significant amounts of money into the pot

Horsing - Passing a small amount of money to another player after winning a pot

Under the Gun - First to bet.

Boat - Full house.

Capped - (relevant to limited-round poker) happens when you reach the maximum number of raises

Check - Forfeiting your right to bet first

Check-raise - Forfeiting your right to bet, but raising the bet if another player places a bet

Limp In - To enter the round by calling a bet, rather than raising.

Monster - A hand that is almost certain to win.

Smooth Call - to call, rather than raise, an opponent's bet.

Rainbow - Three of four cards of different suits.

Chase - To pass without placing a wager or to play with a hand that is weaker than (at least) one player

Cut - Dividing the deck into two parts

Cut-Card - Another name for the last card (the bottom one)

Dead hand - A hand of poker that cannot be played

Chop - To return the blinds to the players who posted them and move on to the next hand if nobody calls the blind.

Rounder - professional player who "makes the rounds" of the big poker games in the country.

School - The players in a regular game.

Belly Buster - A draw to fill an inside straight, also sometimes called a "gutshot".

Discard - Dumping cards in poker to take others instead

Down cards - Cards dealt face-down

Draw - replacing cards in your hand

Drawing Dead - Replacing cards even though someone else has a hand that will beat you

Bug - A Joker that can be used to make straights and flushes and be paired with Aces, but not with any other cards.

Pocket Rockets - A pair of aces in the hole.

Wheel - The lowest hand you can get in lowball - Ace, 2, 3, 4, 5.

Gypsy In - In lowball it's to limp in.

Face card - Jack, queen or king

Flop - The initial 3 cards your are handed out at poker

Flashed cards - Partially exposed cards

Flush - 5 cards of the same fold. Also termed as forfeiting playing in a specific poker session

Cheese - A very substandard starting hand.

Pocket Rockets - A pair of Aces in the hole.

Big Slick - Any Ace-King combination pocket cards.

River - The final card dealt.

Leg Up - Winning the previous pot, if you win again you will have to kill the pot

Live Blind - Blind bet that allows a poker player to raise if none before has done so

Loose - If you play more hands than is considered normal

Loose game - Poker where each round includes a large percent of the players

Lowball - Poker where the lowest hand wins