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Chop
A chop is a pot divided equally between players with equal hands, or a tournament deal to split the prize money.
Chopping Blinds
Chopping blinds is when the small blind and big blind take back their bets after everyone else folds.
Cinch Hand
A cinch hand is the nuts: a hand that cannot be beaten.
Clicking It Back
Clicking it back is making a minimum re-raise, a phrase from clicking the min-raise button online.
Coffeehousing
Coffeehousing is talking about a hand you are in, to mislead or manipulate other players.
Coin Flip
A coin flip is a situation in which two players have roughly equal chances of winning the pot.
Cold Call
A cold call is calling a bet and a raise in one action, without having put any chips in before.
Cold Call or Bet
A cold bet or cold raise is made against the wagers of several players; a cold call calls several bets at once.
Cold Deck
A cold deck is a deck secretly swapped in to give a player a planned hand; the term is also used for hands that clash and create a cooler.
Cold Hands
Cold hands are showdown hands, or a run of poor hands.
Collection
A collection is the fee a cardroom charges for running a game, taken from the pot or from each player.
Collection Drop
A collection drop is a fee charged for each hand dealt.
Collusion
Collusion is cheating in which two or more players cooperate against the rest of the table.
Color Change
A color change is a request to exchange chips from one denomination to another.
Color Up
To color up is to exchange chips for fewer chips of a higher denomination.
Colt 45
Colt 45 is a nickname for the starting hand four-five.
Combo Draw
A combo draw is a hand with both a straight draw and a flush draw at the same time.
Combos
Combos are the possible combinations of two cards a player can hold, used to estimate an opponent's range.
Come Hand
A come hand is a drawing hand, a term likely borrowed from the craps term 'come bet'.
Come Over the Top
To come over the top is to make a large raise or re-raise over an opponent's bet or raise.
Common Card
A common card is a face-up card used by all players at showdown in stud when too few cards remain in the deck.
Community Cards
Community cards are the face-up cards in the middle of the table that all players share.
Comp Program
A comp program rewards poker players with cash incentives, points or other benefits for loyalty.
Complete
To complete is to raise a forced or partial bet up to a full bet, mostly in limit games.
Complete Hand
A complete hand is a hand defined by all five cards: a straight, flush, full house, four of a kind or straight flush.
Complete the Bet
To complete the bet is to raise an all-in or forced bet up to a full bet in limit poker.
Computer Hand
Computer hand is a nickname for queen-seven, the exact middle-ranked starting hand.
Concealed Pair
A concealed pair is a pair in which both cards are face down.
Connector
A connector is a starting hand whose two cards are consecutive in rank, such as J-10 or 8-7.
Connectors
Connectors are hold'em starting hands containing two cards that are consecutive in rank.
Conservative
A conservative player plays few hands, avoids risk and bets or raises mostly with strong hands.
Conservative Play
Conservative play is a strategy of betting only hands that have a good chance of winning.
Continuation Bet (C‑Bet)
A continuation bet is a bet on the flop by the player who raised before the flop.
Cooler
A cooler is a hand in which a very strong hand loses to an even stronger one, so that the loser could hardly avoid losing.
Coordinated
A coordinated board has community cards that connect with each other or share a suit, making strong hands and draws possible.
Counterfeit
To counterfeit a hand is to have its value cancelled because the board makes a better version of the same hand.
Court Card
A court card is a jack, queen or king.
Cowboys
Cowboys is a nickname for a pair of kings.
Crabs
Crabs is a nickname for a pair of threes.
Crack
To crack a hand is to beat it, usually a big hand such as pocket aces.