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| Aces Full | A full house with three aces and any other pair. |
| Ace-high | Five cards where the best you can make is a high card hand with an ace, no pair, straight, flush etc. |
| Aces Up | A hand that contains two pairs, one of which is Aces. |
| Action | Where two or more players become involved in a hand, there is action. If one player raised and the table folded, he would have received no 'action' for his bet. A lot of players betting would be 'heavy action'. |
| Active Player | A player still playing in a particular hand. |
| Add-on | In a re-buy tournament, at the end of the re-buy period, all remaining players will have the option to purchase an add-on, also known as a top-up. For the same fee as the original buyin, a player may increase their chip balance by the starting amount. |
| All-in | When a player has bet/called for all of his chips, he will be deemed all-in. Any further betting by remaining active players is placed in a side-pot which the all-in player is not entitled to win. |
| American Airlines | American term for two Aces, also known as 'Bullets' or 'Rockets'. |
| Ante | Forced bets paid by all players in the later stages of tournaments in addition to the two players who must pay their 'Blinds'. |
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