Dead Hand - A hand
no longer legally playable, due to some irregularity.
Dead Money - Money
put into the pot by players who have already folded.
Dealer's Choice - A
game in which each dealer, in turn, chooses the
type of poker to be played.
Declaration - In
high-low poker, declaring by the use of coins or
chips whether one is aiming to win the high or the
low end of the pot, or both.
Declare Games - Games
in which a player must declare the value of his
hand in order to claim the pot.
Deuce - A two, the
lowest ranking card in high poker.
Deuce to Seven - Another
term for Kansas City Lowball, a two to seven without
a flush,being the best hand.
Dominate - Said
of a starting hand that will almost always beat
another starting hand.
Door Card - In Seven-Card
Stud, the first exposed card in a player's hand.
Double Belly Buster - A
hand with two inside straight draws.
Double Gut Shot - A
draw to a broken sequence of cards, in which either
of two cards will make the straight.
Double Through - Going
all-in against an opponent in order to double your
stack if you win the hand.
Down Cards - Hole
cards.
Down To The Felt - A
player who has lost most of his chips.
Draw - Lowball A
form of poker in which the lowest hand wins.
Draw Out - To improve
your hand so that it beats an opponent who had a
better hand than yours prior to your draw.
Draw Poker - A form
of poker in which each player receives five cards
and then has the option of discarding one or more
of them and receiving new cards in their place.
Drawing Dead - Drawing
to a hand that cannot possibly win.
Drawing Hand - A
potentially strong hand requiring a particular card
from the draw to make it.
Driver's Seat - The
player who is making all the betting and thus appears
to hold the strongest hand is said to be in the
driver's seat.
Drop - To fold.
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