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Poker Lexicon - Poker Terms Beginning With 'D'
Dark - Describing an action taken before receiving information to which the player would normally be entitled. I'm drawing three, and I check in the dark.
Dead Man's Hand - Two pair - Aces and Eights (The hand Wild Bill Hickock was holding when Jack McCall shot him in the back).
Dead blind - A blind that is not "live", in that the player posting it does not have the option to raise if other players just call. Rarely used.
Dead button - A dealer button placed in a position where there is no player. This occurs in some casinos when the player who would otherwise be entitled to the button leaves the game (other casinos move the button forward to the next player).
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 player's hand that is not entitled to participate in the deal for some reason, such as having been fouled by touching another player's cards, being found to contain the wrong number of cards, being dealt to a player who did not make the appropriate forced bets, etc.
Dead money - Money placed into a pot that does not represent equal bets and calls by active players in the pot. This can be the earlier bets of players who have folded, or money placed in the pot before the deal.
By extension, it is used as a derogatory term for money put in play by unskilled players who are legally eligible, but unlikely, to win it back. Can also refer to the player: Let's play that stud game--Jan and Doris are dead money.
Deadwood - The muck.
Deal - To distribute cards to players in accordance with the rules of the game being played.
Dealer - The man or woman who handles the cards, gives out the pots, and monitors the game.
Dealer's Position - Being the last to act in a betting round. On the button.
Deal me in - A request to be dealt cards.
Deal me out - Notification from the player that s/he will be absent from the game.
Deal off - To take all the blinds and the button before changing seats or leaving the table; to participate through all the blind positions and the dealer position.
Deal twice - A business deal between players made before the last card is dealt. The players agree to divide the present pot into two, then deal the last card as normal, awarding half of the pot to the winner. The last cards dealt are then discarded, and a different set is dealt. The winner of this second deal (which may be the same) is awarded the other half of the pot. Such deals are made to reduce variance.
Dealer's button - The flat disk that indicates the player who is in the dealing position for any given hand (if there is not an assigned house dealer).
Dealer's choice - Referring to home games, in which the dealer can name which poker game to be played that hand.
Dealer text - dealer's running verbiage, displayed in the chat box, describing the action. At Full Tilt Poker, you can specify the level of this reporting, from minimal information to everything that happens.
Deck - A set of playing cards.
Declare - To verbally indicate an action or intention.
Decloak - To raise after having sandbagged for a time (making it clear that you were, in fact, sandbagging). See in the bushes.
Deep - Describing a large amount of money, either in play or having been lost. How deep are you? (meaning "How much money do you have", in anticipation of making a very large bet). I won that large pot, but I'm in much deeper than that.
Defense - Playing to minimize investment or loss rather than maximize a win; for example, with a drawing hand that is risky but that you think should call an opponent's bet, you might make a smaller "defensive bet" yourself that you think your opponent will just call, rather than checking and calling a larger bet, or showing weakness.
Occasionally calling with weak hands to discourage opponents from bullying, especially when in the blinds.
Detachable chat - The ability to move the chat box anywhere on your screen. This is also called undocking.
Deuces - A pair of Twos.
Deuce - A 2-spot card.
Any of various related uses of the number two, such as a $2 limit game, a $2 chip, etc.
Deuce - to-seven
A method of evaluating low hands.
Deuces wild - A poker variation in which the deuces act as wild cards. In Deuces Wild, the deuces can adopt the rank or suit of any other card.
Diamonds - One of the four playing card suits. Formerly representing merchants.
Dialog box - An interactive menu that appears when it is your turn to make a decision. For example, when you sit down at a game, the software prompts you to choose how much to buy in for. This it does in the form of a dialog box.
Discard - To take a previously dealt card out of play. The set of all discards for a deal is called the muck or the deadwood.
Disconnect Protection - A tool to protect players in the event that their internet connection is lost while involved in a pot.
Dog - 1. Underdog; that is, a player with a smaller chance to win than another specified player. Frequently used when the exact odds are expressed. George might have been bluffing, but if he really had the king, my hand was a 4-to-1 dog, so I folded.
Dollar - The name the high rollers have given to a $100.
Dolly Parton - A straight 5 – 9; as in “Nine to Five”.
Dominated Hands - Hands that are okay to play, but tend to lose against similar non-straight/flush hands. Example: A2 is dominated because against other hands with an Ace, it loses or draws without improvement.
Dominating Hands - Primo hands that are not only good, solid hands, but have lots of room for improvement.
Door Card - This is the first exposed card, or 'up' card, in a player's hand in Stud games.
Donkey - A lousy poker player.
Donation - A call made by a player who fully expects to lose; made either out of boredom or irrational optimism.
Door card - In a stud game, a player's first face-up card.
Double-ace flush - Under unconventional rules, a flush with one or more wild cards in which they play as aces, even if an ace is already present.
Double-board, double-flop Any of several community card game variants (usually Texas Hold’ em) in which two separate boards of community cards are dealt simultaneously, with the pot split between the winning hands using each board.
Double-draw - Any of several draw poker games in which the draw phase and subsequent betting round are repeated twice.
Double gutter, double belly buster - In games involving six or more cards, a draw to a straight that can be filled by two ranks, but that is not an open-ender. For example, K-J-10-9-7, which can become a straight with any Q or 8.
Double limit - Structured limit game with bets at one limit in early rounds, and bets at twice that limit in subsequent rounds. For example, in a $2/$4 hold'em game, all bets in the first two rounds are $2, and multiples of $2 when players raise; all bets in the last two rounds are $4, and multiples of $4 when players raise. The term double limit is often restricted to draw games, while structured limit is used for stud and hold'em-type games.
Double Pop - When you imidiately raise a raise.
Double suited - Used to describe an Omaha hold 'em starting hand where two pairs of suited cards are held. May be abbreviated "ds" in written descriptions. AAJT (ds) is widely considered a premium pot-limit Omaha hold 'em starting hand.
Double through, double up - 1. In a big bet game, to bet all of one's chips on one hand against a single opponent (who has an equal or larger stack) and win, thereby doubling your stack. I was losing a bit, but then I doubled through Linda to put me in good shape.
Down and dirty -The final hole card dealt in seven card stud.
Down Card - Hole cards, or cards that are dealt face down.
Down to the felt/down to the green - All in, or having lost all of one's money. Refers to the green felt surface of a poker table no longer obscured by chips.
Doyle Brunson - It's a Hold’em hand consisting of a 10-2 (Brunson won the World Championship of Poker two years in a row with these cards).
Drag light - To pull chips away from the pot to indicate that you don't have enough money to cover a bet. If you win, the amount is ignored. If you lose, you must cover the amount from your pocket. This is not allowed at any casino or any but the most casual home games;
Draw Lowball - Form of poker where each player is dealt five cards with the option of discarding one or more and replacing them with new ones - the low hand wins.
Draw Poker - Form of poker where each player is dealt five cards down, with the option of discarding one or more and replacing them with new ones to attempt to make a better hand.
Drawing - Playing a hand to improve.
Drawing Dead - A drawing hand that will lose even if it improves.
Drawing Hand - A hand that needs improvement to win. Usually to a straight or flush.
Drawing live - Not drawing dead; that is, drawing to a hand that will win if successful.
Drink pot - A pot won by a player with the agreement that drinks will be bought from the proceeds.
Drawing thin - Not drawing completely dead, but chasing a draw in the face of poor odds. E.g. a player who will only win by catching 1 or 2 specific cards is said to be "drawing thin".
Driver's seat - A position attributed to the player who is pushing the action; taking initiative.
Drop - Fold.
Drummer - A player who typically plays very few hands (a 'tight' player).
Dry ace - In Omaha hold 'em or Texas hold 'em, refers to an ace in one's hand without another card of the same suit.
Dry pot - A side pot with no money. Created when a player goes all in and is called by more than one opponent, but not raised. Bluffing into a dry pot is a play that cannot possibly earn a profit, so doing so is considered foolish. It may also be unethical, because it serves to protect the all-in player at the expense of the bettor and the other players, and so is a form of collusion.
Ducks - A pair of twos
Duplicate - To counterfeit, especially when the counterfeiting card matches one already present in the one's hand.
Dutch straight - A skip straight.
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