A gamble, a wager. Putting money or chips into the pot at any stage of the poker game . In poker, used also in a narrower sense, to describe the opening bet. In a fixed limit poker game, uses to declare the amount of one stake unit. For example, If you play a 100$/200$ fixed limit game, and a player is saying: "We have 4 bets in the pot", that means there are 4 bets * 100$=400$ in the pot.