An equal-opportunity pastime, poker is played everywhere from country clubs to penitentiaries and has even developed into a spectator sport. In this entertaining gift book for poker fanatics and students of American vernacular, a cultural historian and slang authority offers a compendium of traditional poker slang, as well as the new vocabulary of online poker and jargon from high-stakes tournaments.

An attorney by profession and a student of language by avocation, Tom Dalzell is the author of several books, including Dover's Flappers 2 Rappers: American Youth Slang and Damn the Man: Slang of the Oppressed in America. His Dover original title, Far Out Depends on Where You're Standing: A New Look at the 1950s, will be published early in 2013.