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Dead Card | A card no longer legally playable.
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Dead Hand | A hand no longer legally playable, due to some irregularity.
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Dead Money | Money put into the pot by players who have already folded.
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Dealer's Choice | A game in which each dealer, in turn, chooses the type of poker to be played.
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Declaration | In high-low poker, declaring by the use of coins or chips whether one is aiming to win the high or the low end of the pot, or both.
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Declare Games | Games in which a player must declare the value of his hand in order to claim the pot.
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Deuce | A two, the lowest ranking card in high poker.
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Deuce to Seven | Another term for Kansas City Lowball, a two to seven without a flush,being the best hand.
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Dominate | Said of a starting hand that will almost always beat another starting hand.
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Door Card | In Seven-Card Stud, the first exposed card in a player's hand.
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Double Belly Buster | A hand with two inside straight draws.
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Double Gut Shot | A draw to a broken sequence of cards, in which either of two cards will make the straight.
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Double Through | Going all-in against an opponent in order to double your stack if you win the hand.
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Down Cards | Hole cards.
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Down To The Felt | A player who has lost most of his chips.
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Draw Lowball | A form of poker in which the lowest hand wins.
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Draw Out | To improve your hand so that it beats an opponent who had a better hand than yours prior to your draw.
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Draw Poker | A form of poker in which each player receives five cards and then has the option of discarding one or more of them and receiving new cards in their place.
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Drawing Dead | Drawing to a hand that cannot possibly win.
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Drawing Hand | A potentially strong hand requiring a particular card from the draw to make it.
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Driver's Seat | The player who is making all the betting and thus appears to hold the strongest hand is said to be in the driver's seat.
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Drop | To fold.
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