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Poker Terms
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Cards Speak - The face value
of a hand in a showdown is the true value of the hand, regardless of
a verbal announcement. (Someone might say I have a flush, but could
be missing one card)
Capped - Describes the
situation in limit poker in which the maximum number of raises on
the betting round have been reached.
Call - To put into the pot an amount of
money equal to the most recent bet or raise.
Calling
Station - A weak-passive player who calls a lot, but doesn't
raise or fold much. This is the kind of player you like to have in
your game.
Case -
The last card of a certain rank in the deck. Example: "The flop came
J-8-3; I've got pocket jacks, he's got pocket 8's, and then the case
eight falls on the river, and he beats my full house."
Center Pot
- The first pot created during a poker hand, as opposed to one or
more "side" pots created if one or more players goes all-in. Also
"main pot."
Chat -
Typed conversation that you can have with other players at an online
poker site (or any online gathering, for that matter).
Chop -
An agreement between the two players with blinds to simply take
their blinds back rather than playing out the hand if nobody calls
or raises in front of them.
Check-Raise - To pass a good
time to bet in hopes that someone else will bet, so you can raise
when it comes back to you.
Chase - To play a hand that
is most likely worse than at least one other player.
Check
- To pass without betting.
Chips
-
Tokens used at gaming tables in place of cash.
Chopping the Blinds
-
When 2 players agree to take back their blind bets if there is no
action ahead of them. Note that once you agree to chop the blinds
with your neighbor, you are expected to always chop the blinds with
them.
Chum
– Bait that is used to attract hungry sharks and send
them into a
feeding frenzy. Don’t be chum.
Clean Out
- A card that would almost certainly make your hand best. If you
are drawing at a straight, but there is a flush draw possible, then
the cards that make your straight but also the flush are not clean
outs.
Cold
-
A player on a losing streak.
Complete Hand
-
A poker hand that is defined by all five cards. That is a straight,
flush, straight flush, or a full house.
Cut
-
The dealer divides the deck of cards into two parts and then inverts
them after they have been shuffled.
Color
Down
-
Exchanging chips for those of a lower denomination.
Color
Up
-
Exchanging chips for those of a higher denomination.
Come
Hand
-
A drawing hand. Example: An open-ended
straight is a come hand.
Complete the Bet
-
When the small blind chooses to call by putting in the chips
necessary
Counterfeit
-
When your hand loses value because a board card duplicates it or a
board card gives others a similar hand. Example: You
hold
A-4
and the board is A-7-4.
You have 2-pair,
which is now ahead of A-K.
The turn is a 7. Your hand has just been counterfeited, since your 2-
pair is no longer as valuable as it was prior to the turn.
Cowboys
-
A pair of Kings.
Cold Call - To call more than one bet in a
single action. For instance, suppose the first player to act after
the big blind raises. Now any player acting after that must call two
bets "cold." This is different from calling a single bet and then
calling a subsequent raise.
Connector
- A hold'em starting hand in which the two cards are one apart in
rank. Examples: JQ, 76.
Community Cards - The cards
dealt face up in the center of the table that can be used by all
players to form their best hand in the games of hold"em and Omaha.
Cripple -
To win a critical hand in a tournament, leaving
your opponent very short-stacked.
Cripple the Deck
-
Your hand contains most or all of the beneficial cards that could be
used in conjunction with the board.
Crack -
To beat a big hand. You hear this most often applied to pocket aces
and kings.
Crying Call
- A call that you make expecting to lose, but feel that you must
make anyway because of the pot odds.
Cutoff
-
The position (or player) who acts one before the
button (to the right).
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. |
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