Poker Terms D to F

• DEAD CARD: A card that is not legally playable.
• DEAD COLLECTION BLIND: A fee posted by the player having the dealer button, used in some games as an alternative method of seat rental.
• DEAD HAND: A hand that is not legally playable.
• DEAD MONEY: Chips that are taken into the center of the pot because they are not considered part of a particular player's bet.
• 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.
• DEAL OFF: To take all the blinds and the button before changing seats or leaving the table. That is, participate through all the blind positions and the dealer position.
• DEAL TWICE: When there is no more betting, agreeing to have the rest of the cards to come determine only half the pot, removing those cards, and dealing again for the other half of the pot.
• DECK: A set of playing-cards. In these games, the deck consists of either:
  (1) 52 cards in seven-card stud, holdem, and Omaha.
  (2) 53 cards (including the joker), often used in ace-to-five lowball and draw high.
• DISCARD(S) : In a draw game, to throw cards out of your hand to make room for replacements, or the card(s) thrown away; the muck.
• DOWNCARDS: Cards that are dealt facedown in a stud game.
• DRAW:
  (1) The poker form where players are given the opportunity to replace cards in the hand. In some places like California, the word draw is used referring to draw high, and draw low is called lowball.
  (2) The act of replacing cards in the hand.
  (3) The point in the deal where replacing is done is called the draw.
• Drawing Dead : Drawing to a hand that cannot win because someone already holds a hand that will beat what you are drawing to.
• Dominated : A hand that yields three or less outs which makes improving it very difficult.
• Early Position : A position in which you must act before most of the players during a round.
• FACECARD: A king, queen, or jack.
• Flop : The first three community cards dealt up at one time at a poker table.
• FIXED LIMIT: In limit poker, any betting structure in which the amount of the bet on each particular round is pre-set.
• FLASHED CARD: A card that is partially exposed.
• FLOORPERSON: A casino employee who seats players and makes decisions.
• FLOP: In holdem or Omaha, the three community cards that are turned simultaneously after the first round of betting is complete.
• FLUSH: A poker hand consisting of five cards of the same suit. FOLD: To throw a hand away and relinquish all interest in a pot.
• FOURTH STREET: The second upcard in seven-card stud or the first boardcard after the flop in holdem (also called the turn card).
• FOULED HAND: A dead hand.
• FORCED BET: A required wager to start the action on the first betting round (the normal way action begins in a stud game).
• FREEROLL: A chance to win something at no risk or cost.
• FULL BUY: A buy-in of at least the minimum requirement of chips needed for a particular game.