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Poker Terms
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Dark
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Taking action, such as checking or betting, without seeing your hole
cards. This is also used when the person who is first to act takes
action prior to the next board card being revealed.
Dead
Money
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Money that has been put in the pot by people who are no longer in
contention to win the pot.
Dealer
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a casino employee who deals the various games.
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.”
Deck
- A set of playing-cards. The deck consists of
52 cards in most poker games.
Drop
Box
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on a gaming table, the box that serves as a repository for cash,
markers, and chips.
Dog - Shortened form of "underdog."
Dominated Hand
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A hand that contains 3 or fewer outs against another hand. Example:
AK dominates AQ, since AQ needs one of the remaining 3 Queens in the
deck in order to beat AK.
Double Up
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In no-limit,
winning a heads-up
pot when you have gone all in (thus, doubling your chip total).
Draw - To play a hand that is not yet
good, but could become so if the right cards come.
Drawing Dead
- Drawing to a hand that cannot win because someone already holds a
hand that will beat what you are drawing to.
Ducks
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A pair of Twos.
Dump
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To fold a hand.
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