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Kansas City Lowball
Kansas City lowball is a form of lowball in which the best hand is 7-5-4-3-2 of different suits. Aces are high, and straights and flushes count against you. It is also called deuce-to-seven lowball.
Katie or Katy
Katie or Katy is a nickname for a starting hand of king and ten, K-T. The name comes from the sound of the letters K and T.
Keep Them Honest
To keep them honest is to call a bet, usually at the end of a hand, so that your opponent cannot bluff you every time. You call to make him show a real hand sometimes.
Key Card
A key card is a card that gives you a big draw or makes your hand. When it comes, it changes the strength of your holding.
Key Hand
A key hand is the one hand in a session or tournament that becomes a turning point for a player, for better or worse.
Kibitzer
A kibitzer is a spectator who watches a game and comments on it, usually without being asked.
Kick It
To kick it means to raise. You kick it when you make a larger bet after someone has bet.
Kicker
A kicker is the side card in your hand that is not part of the made hand, but is used to break ties between hands of the same rank. For example, with ace-king against ace-queen on an ace-high board, the king kicker wins.
Kill
A kill, or kill blind, is an oversized blind, usually twice the big blind, which also doubles the betting limits. A half-kill raises the blind and limits by 50 percent. A kill can be voluntary or mandatory.
Kill Button
A kill button is a button used in a lowball game to show a player who has won two pots in a row and must kill the pot. It marks who has the kill action.
Kill Pot
A kill pot is a pot in which the stakes are raised because a player won the previous pot, or won two in a row. The player who wins posts an extra blind, called the kill blind, which makes the game larger for the next hand.
King Crab
King Crab is a nickname for a starting hand of king and three, K-3. The name comes from the shape of the three, which looks like a crab on its side.
Knave
Knave is an old name for the jack. In some card games the jack is called the knave.
Knock
A knock is the same as a check: a player decides not to bet and passes the action to the next player. It can be done only if no one has bet in the current round.
Knockout Tournament
A knockout tournament is a tournament in which part of the buy-in becomes a bounty on each player. When you eliminate a player, you win their bounty in cash. Also called a bounty tournament.
Kojack
Kojack is a nickname for king-jack, K-J, of any suits. It is the same as Kojak.
Kojak
Kojak is a nickname for a hand with king and jack, K-J. It is named after the TV detective.
Komodo Dragoned
Komodo dragoned means that a player's hand is defeated because an opponent completes a straight or flush on the river. It is a slang term for a bad beat.