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Insurance: A side agreement when
someone is all-in for a player in a pot to put up money that guarantees a
payoff of a set amount in case the opponent wins the pot.
Jackpot: A special bonus
paid to the loser of a hand if he gets a very good hand beaten. In
hold'em, the "loser" must
typically get aces full or better beaten. In some of the large southern
California card clubs, the jackpots have gotten over $50,000. The jackpot
is funded with money removed from the game as part of the rake.
Kansas City Lowball:
A form of draw poker
low also known as deuce-to-seven, in which the best hand is 7-5-4-3-2 and
straights and flushes, count against you.
Kicker:
The highest unpaired card that helps determine the value of a five-card
poker hand.
Kill (Or Kill Blind):
An oversize blind, usually twice the size of the big blind
and doubling the limit. Sometimes a “half-kill” increasing the blind and
limits by fifty percent is used. A kill can be either voluntary or
mandatory. The most common requirements of a mandatory kill are for
winning two pots in a row at lowball and other games, or for scooping a
pot in high-low split.
Kill Button:
A button used in a lowball game to indicate a player who
has won two pots in a row and is required to kill the pot.
Kill Pot:
A pot with a forced kill by the winner of the two previous pots, or the
winner of an entire pot of sufficient size in a high-low split game. (Some
pots can be voluntarily killed.)
Late Position:
A position in which you act after most of the other players during a
round.
Leg Up:
Being in a situation equivalent to having won the previous pot, and thus
liable to have to kill the following pot if you win the current pot.
Live Blind:
A blind bet giving a player the option of raising if no one else has
raised.
Lock-Up:
A chip marker that holds a seat for a player.
Loose:
Playing more hands than normal.
Loose Game:
A game with a lot of players in most hands.
Lowball:
A draw game where the lowest hand wins.
Maniac: A player who does a
lot of hyper-aggressive raising, betting, and bluffing. A true maniac is
not a good player, but is simply doing a lot of gambling. However, a
player who occasionally acts like a maniac and confuses his opponents is
quite dangerous.
Middle Position:
A position in which you act somewhere between most of the other players
during a round.
Miscall:
An incorrect verbal declaration of the ranking of a hand.
Misdeal:
A mistake on the dealing of a hand which causes the cards to be reshuffled
and a new hand to be dealt.
Missed Blind:
A required bet that is not posted when it is a player’s turn to do so.
Muck:
The pile of discards gathered facedown in the center of the table by the
dealer.
Must-Move:
In order to protect the main game, a situation where the players of a
second game must move into the first game as openings occur.
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