Glossary

Quick definitions for the terms used throughout these docs. Poker-math terms first, then platform terms — useful if your team automates the API without being poker-fluent.

Poker terms

• Equity — a hand or range's share of the pot if all remaining cards were dealt out, expressed as a win/tie/loss probability.
• Range — a set of possible hands a player could hold, given as hand classes (e.g. JJ, AKs).
• Dead cards — cards removed from the deck before a calculation (e.g. folded or exposed cards), so they can't appear on the board or in any hand.
• ICM (Independent Chip Model) — a model that converts tournament chip stacks into real-money equity, used to value deals when play stops.
• ICM deal — a proposed split of a remaining prize pool among players, computed from their chip stacks via ICM.
• Blind structure — the schedule of blind (and ante) levels and how long each lasts over a tournament.
• Starting stack — the chips each player begins a tournament with.
• Payout structure — how a prize pool is distributed across finishing positions.

Platform terms

• Calculation API — the product endpoints that run poker math (equity, ICM, payouts, blinds, stacks). Authenticated with product API keys.
• Product API key (pw_test_… / pw_live_…) — authenticates calculation calls. Test keys run against the test environment; live keys bill real credits.
• Organization — the account that owns your projects, keys, billing, and service accounts. Team members and service accounts act within it.
• Service account — an organization-owned, non-human identity used to automate the console.
• Management token (pw_mgmt_…) — authenticates a service account against the management plane. Never used for calculation calls.
• Credits — the unit consumed by successful calculation calls. Failed, rejected, duplicate, and rate-limited requests are not charged. See Usage & credits.
• Request ID — the identifier returned on every response; quote it in support requests.
• Environment — test or live, selected by which product key you use.

Related

• Authentication & API keys · Usage & credits