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HAND:
(1) All a players personal cards.
(2) The five cards determining the poker ranking.
(3) A single poker deal.
HEADS-UP PLAY:
Only two players involved in play.
HOLECARDS:
The cards dealt facedown to a player.
INSURANCE:
A side agreement when someone is all-in for a player in a pot to put up money that guarantees a payoff of a set amount in case the opponent wins the pot.
JOKER:
The joker is a partially wild card in high draw poker and ace-to-five lowball.
In high, it is used for aces, straights, and flushes. In lowball, the joker is the lowest unmatched rank in a hand.
KANSAS CITY LOWBALL:
A form of draw poker low also known as deuce-to-seven, in which the best
hand is 7-5-4-3-2 and straights and flushes count against you.
KICKER:
The highest unpaired card that helps determine the value of a five-card poker hand.
KILL (OR KILL BLIND):
An oversize blind, usually twice the size of the big blind and doubling the limit.
Sometimes a half-kill increasing the blind and limits by fifty percent is used. A kill can be either
voluntary or mandatory.
The most common requirements of a mandatory kill are for winning two pots in a row at lowball and other games, or for scooping a pot in high-low split.
KILL BUTTON:
A button used in a lowball game to indicate a player who has won two pots in a row and is required to kill the pot.
KILL POT:
A pot with a forced kill by the winner of the two previous pots, or the winner of an entire pot of sufficient size in a high-low split game. (Some pots can be voluntarily killed)
LEG UP:
Being in a situation equivalent to having won the previous pot, and thus liable to have to kill the following pot if you win the current pot.
LIVE BLIND:
A blind bet giving a player the option of raising if no one else has raised.
LIST:
The ordered roster of players waiting for a game.
LOCK-UP:
A chip marker that holds a seat for a player.
LOWBALL:
A draw game where the lowest hand wins.
LOWCARD:
The lowest upcard at seven-card stud, which is required to bet.
Creation date : 2005/04/12 @ 1:29 PM
Last update : 2006/01/06 @ 4:26 PM
Category : Glossary
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