Poker Expressions

The most common fraises needed at the Poker Table from C to D.

• CHECK: To waive the right to initiate the betting in a round, but to retain the right to act if another player initiates the betting.
• CHECK-RAISE: To waive the right to bet until a bet has been made by an opponent, and then to increase the bet by at least an equal amount when it is your turn to act.
• Cold Call : To call a bet or multiple bets for the first time in a round.
• COLLECTION: The fee charged in a game (taken either out of the pot or from each player).
• COLLECTION DROP: A fee charged for each hand dealt.
• COLOR CHANGE: A request to change the chips from one denomination to another.
• COMMON CARD: A card dealt faceup to be used by all players at the showdown in the games of stud poker whenever there are insufficient cards left in the deck to deal each player a card individually.
• Community Cards : The cards dealt faceup in the center of the table that can be used by all players to form their best hand in the games of Holdem and Omaha.
• COMPLETE THE BET: To increase an all-in bet or forced bet to a full bet in limit poker.
• Chase : To play a hand that is most likely worse than at least one other player.
• Check : To pass without betting.
• CUT: To divide the deck into two sections in such a manner as to change the order of the cards.
• CUT-CARD: Another term for the bottom card.
• DEAD CARD: A card that is not legally playable.
• DEAD COLLECTION BLIND: A fee posted by the player having the dealer button, used in some games as an alternative method of seat rental.
• DEAD HAND: A hand that is not legally playable.
• DEAD MONEY: Chips that are taken into the center of the pot because they are not considered part of a particular players bet.
• DEAL: To give each player cards, or put cards on the board. As used in these rules, each deal refers to the entire process from the shuffling and dealing of cards until the pot is awarded to the winner.
• DEALER BUTTON: A flat disk that indicates the player who would be in the dealing position for that hand (if there were not a house dealer). Normally just called the button.
• DEAL OFF: To take all the blinds and the button before changing seats or leaving the table. That is, participate through all the blind positions and the dealer position.
• DEAL TWICE: When there is no more betting, agreeing to have the rest of the cards to come determine only half the pot, removing those cards, and dealing again for the other half of the pot.
• DECK: A set of playing-cards. In these games, the deck consists of either:
1. 52 cards in seven-card stud, Holdem, and Omaha.
2. 53 cards (including the joker), often used in ace-to-five lowball and draw high.
• DISCARD(S): In a draw game, to throw cards out of your hand to make room for replacements, or the card(s) thrown away; the muck.
• DOWNCARDS: Cards that are dealt facedown in a stud game.
• DRAW:
1. The poker form where players are given the opportunity to replace cards in the hand. In some places like California, the word draw is used referring to draw high, and draw low is called lowball.
2. The act of replacing cards in the hand.
3. The point in the deal where replacing is done is called the draw.
• Drawing Dead : Drawing to a hand that cannot win because someone already holds a hand that will beat what you are drawing to.
• Dominated : A hand that yields three or less outs which makes improving it very difficult.