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Thursday, January 16, 2025
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The word of the day for 16 January, 2025:

Play

Noun
Any method of betting in a particular hand that misrepresents the cards a player is holding; betting that is not typical for a given player with a particular hand, or that opponents would not expect to be typical.

Noun
An action or series of actions that would result in either a significant win or a significant loss.

Verb
To make a wager after any required wager is posted or to stay in a hand long enough to see a card or cards in addition to those distributed before betting occurred.

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Ace in the Hole
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Checked Around
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Chip Declare
Chip Leader
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Cinch Hand
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Come Hand
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Common Card
Community Cards
Community Pot
Complete a Hand
Complete Hand
Complete the Bet
Computer Hand
Concealed Pair
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Continuation Bet
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Crying Call
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Cut Card
Cut the Pot
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Darth Vader
Daub
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Dead Blind
Dead Button
Dead Cards
Dead Collection Blind
Dead Game
Dead Hand
Dead in the Pot
Dead Man's Hand
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Deal In
Deal Off
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Deal Seconds
Deal Twice
Dealer
Dealer Advantage
Dealer Button
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Dealer's Choice
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Declare
Deep Stack Tournament
Deuce
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Deuce-to-Seven Lowball
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Discard Pile
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Dog
Doghouse Cut
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Dominated
Donate
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Double Belly Buster
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Double Deal
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Double Gutshot
Double Limit
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Down to the Felt
Down to the Green
Doyle Brunson
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Drawing Dead
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Drawing Live
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Duplicate
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Fixed Limit
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Floor Manager
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Four Flush
Four of a Kind
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Four-card Rush
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Free Cards
Free Ride
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Freeze Out
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Full Barn
Full Boat
Full Buy
Full House
Full Kill
Full Of - [Card Value] Full Of [Card Value]
Gardena Razz
Giant Twist
Good Buddy
Gravy
Greek Bottom
Grind
Grind Out
Gutshot Straight Draw
Gypsy In
Half Kill
Half-Pot Limit
Hand
Hand for Hand
Head-to-Head
Head-Up
Heads-Up
Heinz
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High - [Card Value] High
High Card
High Limit
High Society
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Hold'em
Hold-out Artist
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Hunt
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Ignorant End of a Straight
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Jackson Five
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Limit
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Odds Against
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Office Hours
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Oldsmobile
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On a Draw
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One-ended Straight Draw
One-eyed Jacks
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One-gap
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Open Card
Open Pair
Open-ended Straight Draw
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or Better - [Hand Value] or Better
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Out of the Money
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Overbet the Pot
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Pair
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Pat Hand Bluff
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Play
Play the Board
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Pot
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Pot Out
Pothooks
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Prop
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Prop Player
Proposition
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Proposition Hustler
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Protect
Protection
Protection Bet
Provider
Push
Push Bets
Put Down
Put On
Quadruplets
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Qualifier
Quarter
Rabbit
Rabbit Hunt
Rack
Rack Up
Rag
Rail
Railbird
Rainbow
Raise
Rake
Rake-Off
Rakeback
Ram and Jam
Rangdoodles
Rank
Rap
Raquel Welch
Rathole
Razz
Re-buy
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Read
Redeal
Reload Bonus
Rembrandt
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Restraddle
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Reverse Tell
Ribbon Clerk
Ring Game
River
River Rat
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Rock Garden
Rockets
Roger
Rolled-Up
Roodles
Roodles Hand
Rough
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Run
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Rush
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Scarne Cut
Schooling
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Scramble
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Seconds Dealer
See
Semi-Bluff
Set
Sevens Rules
Seventh Street
Shark
Shill
Shill Rules
Shoe Clerk
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Short Buy
Short Call
Short Odds
Short Pair
Short Stack
Showdown
Side Bet
Side Card
Side Pot
Sight
Sign-up Bonus
Silent Props
Single Limit
Sixth Street
Sky's the Limit
Slick
Slippery Sandbag
Slow
Slowball
Slowplay
Slowroll
Small Blind
Smooth
Smooth Call
Snap Off
Snowmen
Speed
Speed Limit
Spider
Splash Around
Splash the Pot
Split
Split Pair
Split Pot
Split the Blinds
Split Two Pair
Spot
Spread Limit
Square
Stack
Stacked Deck
Stake Player
Stakes Play
Steal
Steal Position
Steaming
Steel Wheel
Straddle
Straight
Straight Draw
Straight Flush
Straight Limit
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String Bet
String Raise
Structured Limit
Stuck
Suck Out
Suicide King
Suit
Suited Connectors
Sunset Strip
Super-satellite
Table Charge
Table Image
Table Stakes
Take a Bad Beat
Take the Odds
Tap on the Aquarium
Target Tournament
Telegraph
Telephone Booth
Tells
Texas Hold'em
Third Pair
Third Street
Three of a Kind
Three-Quarter
Threshold of Pain
Tight
Tilt
Timber
Time
Time Bank
Time Collection
Time Game
Time Out
Time Pot
Toke
Token
Top Kicker
Top Pair
Top Two Pair
Tournament
Tournament Chips
Trap
Trey
Trio
Trip
Triplets
Turn
Turn Down
Twist
Twist Your Neighbor
Two Pair
Under the Gun
Underdog
Underpair
Union Oil
Unlimited
Unsuited
Up
Verbal Declaration
Wages
Walking Sticks
Wangdoodles
Wash
way Straight - [Number]-way Straight
Wayne Gretzky
Weak
Whangdoodles
Wheel
Wheel Card
White Chip
Wild - [Card Value] Wild
Wild Cards
Wired
Wired Pair
Wooden Bottoms
Wooden Hand
Worker's Hand
WSOP
Youngest Hand
Z-Game
Zilch - [High Card]-Zilch
Zip - [High Card]-Zip
Zombie
Zuke


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