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Cage: The cashier, where you exchange cash for chips and vice versa.
Call: To match, rather than raise, the previous bet.
Calling Station: A player who invariably calls, and is therefore hard to bluff out.
Cap: In limit games, the limit on the number of raises in a round of betting.
Card Room: The room or area in a casino where poker is played.
Case Card: The last card of a denomination or suit, when the rest have already been seen.
Case Chips: A player's last chips. Cash In: To leave the game and convert one's chips to cash, either with the dealer or at the cage.
Cash Out: To leave a game and cash in one's chips at the cage.
Caught Speeding: Slang for caught bluffing.
Chase: To stay in against an apparently stronger hand, usually in the hope of filling a straight or flush.
Check: To abstain from betting, reserving the right to call or raise if another player bets. Also another name for a chip.
Check-Raise: To check and raise in a betting round.
Check In The Dark: To check before looking at the card or cards just dealt.
Cheese: A very substandard starting hand.
Chip Race: As the limits increase in tournaments, lower denomination chips are taken out of circulation. Rather than rounding odd chips up or down for each player, the players are dealt a card for each odd chip. The player with the highest card is given all the odd chips, which are then colored up.
Chop: To return the blinds to the players who posted them and move on to the next hand, if nobody calls the blind.
Cinch Hand: An unbeatable hand; nuts.
Closed Hand: A hand in which all cards are concealed from the opponents.
Closed Poker: Games in which all of the cards are dealt face down.
Coffee Housing: An attempt to mislead opponents about one's hand by means of devious speech or behavior.
Cold: If a player says his cards have "gone cold," he's having a bad streak.
Cold Call: To call a raise without having already put the initial bet into the pot.
Cold Deck: A fixed deck.
Color Up: To exchange one's chips for chips of higher value, usually to reduce the number of chips one has on the table.
Come: Playing a worthless hand in the hope of improving it is called "playing on the come."
Come Hand: A hand that has not yet been made, requiring one or more cards from the draw to complete it.
Come Over The Top: To raise or reraise an opponent's bet.
Commit Fully: To put in as many chips as necessary to play your hand to the river, even if they're your case chips.
Community Cards: In flop games and similar games, the cards dealt face up in the center of the table that are shared by all active players.
Connectors: Consecutive cards which might make a straight.
Counterfeit: In Omaha Hi/Lo, when the board pairs your key low card, demoting the value of your hand.
Cowboy: Slang for a King.
Crack: To beat a powerful hand.
Crying Call: A call with a hand you think has a small chance of winning.
Cut It Up: To split the pot after a tie.
Cut The Pot: To take a percentage of each pot for the casino running the game.
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Dead Card: A card no longer legally playable. Dead Hand: A hand no longer legally playable, due to some irregularity.
Dead Money: Money put into the pot by players who have already folded.
Dealer's Choice: A game in which each dealer, in turn, chooses the type of poker to be played.
Declaration: In high-low poker, declaring by the use of coins or chips whether one is aiming to win the high or the low end of the pot, or both.
Declare Games: Games in which a player must declare the value of his hand in order to claim the pot.
Deuce: A two, the lowest ranking card in high poker.
Deuce to Seven: Another term for Kansas City Lowball, a two to seven without a flush,being the best hand.
Dominate: Said of a starting hand that will almost always beat another starting hand.
Door Card: In Seven-Card Stud, the first exposed card in a player's hand.
Double Belly Buster: A hand with two inside straight draws.
Double Belly Buster: A hand with two inside straight draws.
Double Gut Shot: A draw to a broken sequence of cards, in which either of two cards will make the straight.
Double Through: Going all-in against an opponent in order to double your stack if you win the hand.
Down Cards: Hole cards.
Down To The Felt: A player who has lost most of his chips.
Draw Lowball: A form of poker in which the lowest hand wins.
Draw Out: To improve your hand so that it beats an opponent who had a better hand than yours prior to your draw.
Draw Poker: A form of poker in which each player receives five cards and then has the option of discarding one or more of them and receiving new cards in their place.
Drawing Dead: Drawing to a hand that cannot possibly win.
Drawing Hand: A potentially strong hand requiring a particular card from the draw to make it.
Driver's Seat: The player who is making all the betting and thus appears to hold the strongest hand is said to be in the driver's seat.
Drop: To fold.
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