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A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
D
Dame
- A queen.
Dark Bet - A blind bet.
Daub - See Cosmetics (Golden Glow brand).
Dead Cards - Discarded or folded cards.
Dead Hand - A foul hand that cannot be played.
Dead Man's Hand - Usually aces and eights, two pair. Sometimes
aces and eights, full house ... or jacks and eights, two pair.
Deadwood - Dead cards.
Deal - To distribute cards to the players.
Deal Off - To deal the final hand of the game.
Deal Out - To omit a player from a hand.
Dealer - (1) A person who deals the cards. (2) The operator
of a gambling game in a casino.
Dealer's Choice - The selection by dealer of game to be played.
Dealer's Percentage - Any game offering the dealer a significant
advantage (Dealer's Game, Dealer's Advantage).
Dealer-Advantage Game - Any game where the dealer has an
advantage.
Debone - A card or portion of a deck that has been crimped
lengthwise or crosswise.
Deception - An important and accepted tool of poker.
Deck - All the cards used in the game (Pack)
Declare - To announce if going for high or low.
Deep Low - The lowest hand for any card (i.e., a deep seven
is an ace, two, three, four, seven).
Defensive Bet - A bet designed to decrease one's potential
loss.
Dent - To mark cards by creasing their corners (Rounding).
Deuce - A two.
Deuce to Seven - Usually means that the best low hand is
simply the worst poker hand in a game played for low.
Deuces Wild - Playing all deuces as wild cards.
Devil's Bedposts - A four of clubs.
Diamond - See Poker Diamond.
Dig - To replenish one's stake or money while playing a hand.
Discard - To exchange old cards for new cards during the
draw or twist.
Disproportionate Bet - A peculiar bet or a bet much larger
or smaller than the normal bet.
Doctor Pepper - Seven-card stud with deuces, fours, and tens
wild.
Dog - (1) Any big-dog or little-dog hand. (2) An underdog.
Doghouse Cut
Dominate - A starting hand that will likely beat another
starting hand is said to dominate that hand.
Door Card - The first card dealt face up to each player in
seven-card stud is the door card.
Double - To raise.
Double Belly Buster - A hand with two inside straight draws
is a double belly buster.
Double Bluff - A bluff made by making a bluff bet on the
final round and then reraising a subsequent raise.
Double Header - (1) A pot not won that passes to the next
deal. (2) A second game that follows an earlier one.
Double-Barreled Shotgun - High-low draw with four rounds
of betting after the draw as each card is turned face-up (Texas Tech).
Double-End Straight - See Bobtail.
Doubling Up - Betting twice as much as the previous bet.
Down and Dirty - The final hole card dealt in seven-card
stud.
Down Cards - Cards dealt face-down.
Down the Chute - To take a heavy loss.
Down the River - Seven-card stud.
Drag (Snatch) - Money separated from a pot to signify the
amount owed by a player (Light).
Draw - The exchange of a card or cards for new ones.
Draw Lowball - A form of poker in which the lowest hand wins.
Draw Out - To catch the winning hand with the last card or
with draw cards.
Draw Poker - One of the two basic forms of poker (the other
is stud). Played as a closed five-card hand with a closed draw.
Drawing Dead - Drawing a hand that cannot win.
Drawing Hand - A drawing hand is a hand that you expect to
be on a draw.
Drib - An inferior player.
Driller - A loose player. A player who bets and raises frequently.
Driver's Seat - The player holding the best advantage.
Drop or Drop Out - To retire from a hand by not calling a
bet or raise (Fold).
Drum - To play tight.
Drummer or Drummer Boy - A tight player.
Dry - To be out of money (Broke).
DTC Method - The technique of good poker . . . Discipline,
Thought. and then Control.
Duck - A deuce.
Duffer - An inexperienced or poor player.
Duke - A hand of cards.
Dutch Straight - See Alternate Straight.
Dynamite - A two-card poker game.