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| Texas Holdem Termins for Letter "C" |
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Cage: The cashier, where you exchange cash for chips and vice versa.
Call: To match, rather than raise, the previous bet.
Calling Station: A player who invariably calls, and is therefore hard to bluff out.
Cap: In limit games, the limit on the number of raises in a round of betting.
Card Room: The room or area in a casino where poker is played.
Case Card: The last card of a denomination or suit, when the rest have already been
seen.
Case Chips: A player's last chips.
Cash In: To leave the game and convert one's chips to cash, either with the dealer or at
the cage.
Cash Out: To leave a game and cash in one's chips at the cage.
Caught Speeding: Slang for caught bluffing.
Chase: To stay in against an apparently stronger hand, usually in the hope of filling a
straight or flush.
Check: To abstain from betting, reserving the right to call or raise if another player
bets.
Also another name for a chip.
Check-Raise: To check and raise in a betting round.
Check In The Dark: To check before looking at the card or cards just dealt.
Cheese: A very substandard starting hand.
Chip Race: As the limits increase in tournaments, lower denomination chips are taken
out of circulation.
Rather than rounding odd chips up or down for each player, the
players are dealt a card for each odd chip.
The player with the highest card is given all
the odd chips, which are then colored up.
Chop: To return the blinds to the players who posted them and move on to the next
hand, if nobody calls the blind.
Cinch Hand: An unbeatable hand; nuts.
Closed Hand: A hand in which all cards are concealed from the opponents.
Closed Poker: Games in which all of the cards are dealt face down.
Cold: If a player says his cards have "gone cold", he's having a bad streak.
Cold Call: To call a raise without having already put the initial bet into the pot.
Cold Deck: A fixed deck.
Color Up: To exchange one's chips for chips of higher value, usually to reduce the
number of chips one has on the table.
Come: Playing a worthless hand in the hope of improving it is called "playing on the
come".
Come Hand: A hand that has not yet been made, requiring one or more cards from the
draw to complete it.
Come Over The Top: To raise or reraise an opponent's bet.
Commit Fully: To put in as many chips as necessary to play your hand to the river,
even if they're your case chips.
Community Cards: In flop games and similar games, the cards dealt face up in the
center of the table that are shared by all active players.
Connectors: Consecutive cards which might make a straight.
Counterfeit: In Omaha Hi/Lo, when the board pairs your key low card, demoting the
value of your hand.
Cowboy: Slang for a King.
Crack: To beat a powerful hand.
Crying Call: A call with a hand you think has a small chance of winning.
Cut It Up: To split the pot after a tie.
Cut The Pot: To take a percentage of each pot for the casino running the game.
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