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