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DEFINITIONS<br />
1. Ante – an amount of money the dealer only, or each player, puts up<br />
before any cards are dealt<br />
2. Bump or Raise –used to indicate that a player wants to increase the<br />
amount that was originally bet<br />
3. Pass or Buy – used to indicate that the player doesn’t have openers or<br />
does not wish to draw a card<br />
4. Call or See – when a player puts up the amount bet without raising<br />
5. Buy a card – some games allow the players to exchange one or more<br />
cards for a predetermined amount<br />
6. Card or No Card – used to indicate to the dealer that the player either<br />
wants a card dealt or the player does not want a card on that turn<br />
7. Frozen – in the games which allow the players the option of taking or<br />
refusing a card, he/she may refuse a card only three times; thereafter<br />
that player can no longer draw a card for the remainder of the hand<br />
8. Declare – in high/low split pot games, players express which way they<br />
are going. In some games, declaring is done verbally; in other games<br />
the coin in hand method of declaring is used. No coin for low, one coin<br />
for high, and two coins for both ways<br />
9. Check – when a player who has the right to make the bet chooses not<br />
to do so<br />
10. Fold – on a player’s turn, if the player does not wish to participate any<br />
longer in the hand, he says “fold” and turns the cards in, face down.<br />
11. Community Card – one or more cards which may be used by all the<br />
players in making their best five card hand<br />
12. Must Bet – In the games where the players’ cards are not visible to the<br />
other players and the bettor is determined on the rotation system, the<br />
player whose turn it is has to bet or fold<br />
13. No Peek or Night – games in which all player cards are dealt face down<br />
and cannot be seen until revealed one at a time<br />
14. Roll – a player turns up a down card. In some games it is done on the<br />
player’s turn. In other games, all of the players turn up one card at the<br />
same time on the dealer’s command<br />
15. Unit – the amount of the bet predetermined by all the players in the<br />
group<br />
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