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Walk A pot won by the last blind when no one opens.
Walking Sticks The holdem starting hand Seven-Seven (77).
Wash To Shuffle.
Wayne Gretzky The holdem starting hand Nine-Nine (99).
Wheel A wheel is the poker hand A2345, the lowest possible straight.
Whipsaw To bet and raise aggressively on both sides of a calling player.
Wired Pair A pair in your starting hand. Pocket Pair.
Wooden Hand A hand that cannot improve or that cannot possibly win. Comes from deadwood, a term for the discards.
Woolworths The holdem starting hand of Five-Ten (5T). Derived from the once-common nickname for Woolworth's retail outlets: "five-and-ten cent stores"
World's Fair The nuts.
WPT World Poker Tour
WSOP World Series of Poker
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