Trump ‘Darth Vader’ with ‘pocket rockets’

In Texas Hold ‘Em only two cards belong exclusively to you, and are hidden from the other players. The other five are community, or shared, cards which everybody sees. Because you take your first action based on those two starting cards, they drive your decision to be in or out of that particular hand.

Therefore, those cards, known as “hole cards” or “pockets,” have the most significance. Perhaps because of the importance of the hole cards, there are dozens of oddly descriptive names for them…

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Poker slang:

OVERCALL - To call a bet after one or more players already called.
COMMUNITY CARDS - Cards that are available for every player to use in making a hand. Usually dealt face up somewhere in the middle of the table.
DRAWING DEAD - A draw in which it is impossible to obtain a winning hand for any of a variety of reasons: an opponent's hand is better than whatever you are drawing to, the card(s) that make your hand are out of play, or (in Hold'em) give an opponent a stronger hand even if it makes yours. Frequently used in the past tense, since one rarely knows it at the time.
PAY STATION - A player who rarely folds, thus who frequently calls better hands and loses. Almost as much fun as a LIVE ONE.
FREEROLL - [1] A poker tournament that does not charge a buy-in fee; players must earn buy-in credits through previous play at the same establishment. [2] Having a lock on part of a pot (sure to win a greater fraction of the pot than one is betting) and playing to win more or all of it.
TRIP - Three of a specific kind, as in "Trip sixes".

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