| Cage |
The cashier, where you exchange cash for chips and vice versa. |
| Call |
To match, rather than raise, the previous bet. |
| Call Cold |
To call a bet and raise at once. |
| Calling Station |
A player who invariably calls, and is therefore hard to bluff out. |
| Cap |
In limit games, the limit on the number of raises in a round of betting. |
| Card Room |
The room or area in a casino where poker is played. |
| Case Card |
The last card of a denomination or suit, when the rest have already been seen. |
| Case Chips |
A player's last chips. |
| Cash In |
To leave the game and convert one's chips to cash, either with the dealer or at the cage. |
| Cash Out |
To leave a game and cash in one's chips at the cage. |
| Caught Speeding |
Slang for caught bluffing. |
| Chase |
To stay in against an apparently stronger hand, usually in the hope of filling a straight or flush. |
| Check |
To abstain from betting, reserving the right to call or raise if another player bets. Also another name for a chip. |
| Check-Raise |
To check and raise in a betting round. |
| Check In The Dark |
To check before looking at the card or cards just dealt. |
| Cheese |
A very substandard starting hand. |
| Chip Race |
As the limits increase in tournaments, lower denomination chips are taken out of circulation. Rather than rounding odd chips up or down for each player, the players are dealt a card for each odd chip. The player with the highest card is given all the odd chips, which are then colored up. |
| Chop |
To return the blinds to the players who posted them and move on to the next hand, if nobody calls the blind. |
| Cinch Hand |
An unbeatable hand; nuts. |
| Closed Hand |
A hand in which all cards are concealed from the opponents. |
| Closed Poker |
Games in which all of the cards are dealt face down. |
| Coffee Housing |
An attempt to mislead opponents about one's hand by means of devious speech or behavior. |
| Cold |
If a player says his cards have "gone cold," he's having a bad streak. |
| Cold Call |
To call a raise without having already put the initial bet into the pot. |
| Cold Deck |
A fixed deck. |
| Color Up |
To exchange one's chips for chips of higher value, usually to reduce the number of chips one has on the table. |
| Come |
Playing a worthless hand in the hope of improving it is called "playing on the come." |
| Come Hand |
A hand that has not yet been made, requiring one or more cards from the draw to complete it. |
| Come Over The Top |
To raise or reraise an opponent's bet. |
| Commit Fully |
To put in as many chips as necessary to play your hand to the river, even if they're your case chips. |
| Community Cards |
In flop games and similar games, the cards dealt face up in the center of the table that are shared by all active players. |
| Connectors |
Consecutive cards which might make a straight. |
| Counterfeit |
In Omaha Hi/Lo, when the board pairs your key low card, demoting the value of your hand. |
| Cowboy |
Slang for a King. |
| Crack |
To beat a powerful hand. |
| Crying Call |
A call with a hand you think has a small chance of winning. |
| Cut It Up |
To split the pot after a tie. |
| Cut The Pot |
To take a percentage of each pot for the casino running the game. |
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