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Call: - To call is to match the current bet. If there has
been a bet of $10 and a raise of $10 then it costs $20 to call. Calling is
the cheapest (and the most passive) way to remain in a hand.
Card Odds: - The probabilities of being dealt or drawing
to various hands
Cardroom: - The rooms in which poker is played, or the organizations
who run those rooms. Most casinos that offer poker have a separate room, or
at least a roped-off area, designated as the cardroom. In some places where
poker is legal, you will also find separate cardrooms (not part of a larger
casino) dedicated mostly to poker.
Cards Speak: - A rule that the value of a hand is based on
what the cards are rather than on what a player declares.
Case: - The last card of a certain rank in the deck.
Cash In: - To exchange poker chips for cash and then to
quit (Cash Out).
Cat: - Any big or little tiger or cat hand.
Check Blind (Check in the Dark): - To check without looking
at one's own cards.
Check Cop: - A paste palmed in a cheater's hand and used
to steal poker chips or to hold out cards.
Check Raise: - To check and then raise when a player behind
you bets. Occasionally you will hear people say this is not fair or ethical
poker. Piffle. Almost all casinos permit check-raising, and it is an important
poker tactic. It is particularly useful in low-limit hold'em where you need
extra strength to narrow the field when you have the best hand.
Check: - If there has been no betting before you in a betting
round, you may check, which is like calling a bet of $0, or passing your turn.
Checks: - Poker chips.
Chicago: - Seven- card stud in which the hand with the highest
spade wins half the pot.
Chip In: - To call a small bet.
Chip Race: - The lower denomination chips in tournaments
are taken out of circulation as the limits go up.
Chip: - Poker chips are small round discs used instead of
money at the poker table.
Chipping: - Betting.
Closed Card: - A concealed card in one's hand.
Closed Game: - A game barred to newcomers or outsiders.
Closed Hand: - The concealed cards in one's hand as in draw
poker.
Closed Poker: - Any form of poker in which all cards are
dealt face- down.
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 him must call two bets "cold." This
is different from calling a single bet and then calling a subsequent raise.
Cold Deck: - (1) A deck from which poor hands are being dealt.
(2) A prestacked deck.
Cold Feet: - A description for a player wanting to quit the
game early.
Cold Hands: - (1) Showdown hands. (2) A run of poor hands.
Collusion: - Two or more players working together to cheat
other players.
Come In: - To call.
Come Off: - To break up a lower- value hand to draw for a
higher- value hand.
Common Card (Communal Card): - An exposed card for use in
every player's hand.
Complete Hand: - A hand that is defined by all five cards
- a straight, flush, full house, four of a kind, or straight flush.
Contract: - To declare for high or low at the conclusion
of split- pot poker.
Cop: - To steal chips from the pot.
Corner Card: - An eight-card game.
Corner Flash: - To tear off a corner of a foreign card and
to flash it as a real card in one's hand.
Count Cards: - The jack, king, and queen (Court Cards, Face
Cards, Picture Cards).
Counter: - (1) One chip. (2) A player who continuously counts
his chips.
Coup: - A brilliant play.
Crack: - To beat a hand - typically a big hand. You hear
this most often used to apply to pocket aces: "Third time tonight I've
had pocket aces cracked."
Crank: - To deal.
Cripple: - As in to cripple the deck. Meaning that you have
most or all of the cards that somebody would want to have with the current
board. If you have pocket kings, and the other two kings flop, you have crippled
the deck.
Crosscards: - A ten- hand poker solitaire game (Patience
Poker).
Crossfire: - See Crooked-Honest System.
Crossover: - A combination of draw and stud poker involving
wild cards.
Customer: - An opponent who calls.
Cut the Cards: - Putting the bottom cards of a deck on top
of the deck.
Cut the Pot: - Money withdrawn from pots for a purpose, such
as to pay for refreshments.
Cut: - After the cards are shuffled but before they are dealt,
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