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C-Note - A hundred-dollar bill.

Cage - The cashier, where you exchange cash for chips and vice versa.

California - Draw poker, open on anything.

California Lowball - Low-ball in which ace, two, three, four, five is the best hand.

Call - Money put in the pot to match a bet or raise.

Call Cold - To call a bet and raise at once.

Calling Station - A player who calls almost any bet (Telephone Booth).

Cap - In table limit games, the cap is the limit on the number of raises in a round of betting.

Card Odds - The probabilities of being dealt or drawing to various hands

Carding - Noting of exposed cards during a hand.

Cardroom - Card rooms are the rooms in which poker is played.

Cards Speak - A rule that the value of a hand is based on what the cards are rather than on what a player declares.

Cardsharp - A cheater.

Case Card - The last available card of a particular value or suit.

Case Chips - A player's last chips.

Cash In - To exchange poker chips for cash and then to quit (Cash Out).

Casino Poker - Public poker played in gambling casinos.

Cat - Any big or little tiger or cat hand.

Catbird Seat - A position in high-low poker that assures a player at least half the pot.

Catch - To be dealt a certain card or hand ... usually a desirable card or hand.

Caught Speeding - Slang for caught bluffing.

Chalk Hand - An almost certain winner.

Chase - To stay against a better hand.

Cheater - A player who intentionally violates the rules to gain advantage unavailable to others.

Check - To pass without betting.

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 Copping - To steal poker chips.

Check Raise - To check and then subsequently raise in the same round of betting.

Cheese - A very substandard starting hand.

Chicago - Seven-card stud in which the hand with the highest spade wins half the pot.

Chicago Pelter - A kilter.

Chicken Picken - A game with eleven cards

Chink Ink - A special ink used by cheaters to mark the edge of cards.

Chip - Money represented by a plastic disc.

Chip Along - To bet the smallest amount possible.

Chip Declaration - To use chips in declaring for high or low.

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.

Chipping - Betting.

Choice Pots - Dealer's choice.

Chop - When the blinds are returned to the players who posted them and then the next hand is played.

Cinch Hand - A certain winner (A Lock, an Immortal).

Cincinnati - A ten-card game with five in each hand and five face-up for everyone's use (Lame Brains).

Cincinnati Liz - Like Cincinnati, except the lowest face-up card is wild.

Clam - A dollar.

Class - Rank of a poker hand.

Close to the Chest - To play tight (Close to the Belly).

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.

Club Poker - Poker played in public card clubs. (See Gardena, California.)

Coffee Housing - To act oppositely to one's emotions or situation.

Cold Call - When one player bets, another player raises, and a third player calls the two bets, this is a cold call.

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.

Cold Turkey - A pair of kings, back to back, on the first two cards in five-card stud.

Collection or Axe - See Time Cut.

Collusion - Two or more players working together to cheat other players.

Color Up - In order to reduce the number of chips one has on the table, a player will exchange his chips for one’s of a greater value.

Come - See On the Come.

Come In - To call.

Come Off - To break up a lower-value hand to draw for a higher-value hand.

Commerce - A three-card game with three cards in the widow.

Common Card (Communal Card) - An exposed card for use in every player's hand.

Connector - Cards of consecutive ranks.

Consecutive Declaration - A rule for declaring high-low hands in consecutive order.

Contract - To declare for high or low at the conclusion of split-pot poker.

Contract Poker - High-low split-pot poker with oral declarations.

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.

Cosmetics - Preparations such as ashes, waxes, abrasives, aniline pencils, and luminous inks used by cheaters for marking cards (Daub).

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.

Counterfeit - When your great hand is subsequently made less powerful because of cards that hit the table during flop games.

Coup - A brilliant play.

Cowboy - A king.

Crack - A powerful hand is cracked when it is beaten.

Crank - To deal.

Crazy Otto - Five-card stud with the lowest card as wild.

Crimp (Bridge) - To bend and hump the upper or lower section of the deck to make a false or an illegal cut. (See Debone)

Crisscross - Same as Southern Cross except five cards are laid out with the center one wild.

Crooked-Honest System (C-H System) - The system of two cheaters in partnership: One catches a strong hand, and he signals the other to raise, thus squeezing all callers (Cross Life, Crossfire).

Cross (The Cross) - Like Cincinnati, except the five cards are in a cross formation with the center card and all similar cards as wild.

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.

Crying Call - A call by someone who is certain they will not win the pot.

Cull - To arrange or cluster good cards together for cheating.

Curfew - The agreed-upon quitting lime.

Curse of Mexico - The deuce of spades.

Curse of Scotland - The nine of diamonds.

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.

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