To call a bet when you are most likely drawing dead because the pot odds justify the call.
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| case card | The last available card of a certain description (typically a rank). The only way I can win is to catch the case king., meaning the only king remaining in the deck. | U |
| isolation | See isolation (poker). | U |
| crying call | Calling when a player thinks he does not have the best hand. | U |
| bubble | The last finishing position in a poker tournament before entering the payout structure. He was very frustrated after getting eliminated on the bubble. Also can be applied to other situations like if six players will make a televised final table the player finishing seventh will go out on the "TV bubble". Also used to describe any situation close to the payout structure. | U |
| final table | The last table in a multi-table poker tournament. The final table is set when a sufficient amount of people have been eliminated from the tournament leaving an exact amount of players to occupy one table (typically no more than ten players). | U |
| idiot end | In flop games, a player drawing to, or even flopping, a straight with undercards to the flop has the idiot end of it. A player with 8-9 betting on a flop of A-T-J puts himself at great risk, because many of the cards that complete his straight give credible opponents higher ones. | U |
| burn, burn card | See burn card. | U |
| irregularity | Any of a number of abnormal conditions in play, such as unexpectedly exposed cards, that may call for corrective action. See Public cardroom rules (poker). | U |
| freezeout | The most common form of tournament. There's no rebuy, play continues until one player has all the chips. | U |
| M-ratio | See M-ratio. | U |