Good ( poker )


1) Not foul, that is, describing a legitimate, playable hand, one that has not run afoul of the house rules.

2) The situation in which a player has one of the various traveling blinds, dealer blind, middle blind, or big blind, someone has opened the pot, and the holder of the blind calls the opening bet,
usually with a marginal hand, and with the intention of "protecting" his investment
(operating under the fallacious theory that the chip or chips he has put into the pot prior to the deal in the form of the blind still belong to him).

3) In lowball, smooth (The best possible low hand with a particular high card. 8432A is a smooth 8. "I've got a good eight" means the hand is probably an 8-5 or 8-4.

4) Describing a, or the, winning hand, often said by the loser of a pot with respect to the hand that has beaten him, before he has shown his own hand. Saying "That's good" essentially surrenders the pot.