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The Gambling Dictionary

Entering an online casino, a poker room or any other Internet gambling site is like crossing into a new world in many ways. Although no passport needs to be stamped and even currency does not need to be converted, there is a new lingo to learn. Gambling terms, professional vocabulary, insider references and technical terminology are all listed in this section. Find the meaning of a new term you learn, scan for new terms you didn't know exist, or sort via the advanced tag search option for a variety of convenient browsing options.

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Kamikaze Play

A somewhat wild, back-game Backgammon strategy in which the player breaks points in the home board with the intention of having the checkers re-circulated.

Kansas City

A hand that is not a straight or flush and lowest cards are 5-4-3-2. If playing Ace-to-Five lowball, this is the hand 2-3-4-5-7, with no flush.

Kansas City

A hand that is not a straight or flush and lowest cards are 5-4-3-2. If playing Ace-to-Five lowball, this is the hand 2-3-4-5-7, with no flush.

Kansas City Lowball

A game where the players try to make the weakest hand possible instead of the highest to win. Aces, straights and flushes are high. Also known as Duece-to-Seven Lowball.

Kansas City Lowball

A game where the players try to make the weakest hand possible instead of the highest to win. Aces, straights and flushes are high. Also known as Duece-to-Seven Lowball.

Kicker

In case no straight or flush hand seems to form, the poker player may choose to hold on to an odd high card, perhaps an Ace or a King, for a possible advantage in the end of the game.

Kill

When the original betting limits are increased for a given hand(s) after pre-set requirements are bet. In shared card games, it is a mandatory wager twice the size of the big blind. Or as a verb, this is when a player had made their hand ineligible to win the pot.

Kill

Kill a Checker

Moving a Backgammon checker deep into the home board where it cannot serve any useful purpose until borne off.

Kill Pot

A hand being played when a kill is in effect.

Kill Pot

A hand being played when a kill is in effect.

Knave

Any jack in cards.

Knocking

player lays down his groups of cards on the table and discards his final card in Gin Rummy.

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