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Door card is a Stud term used to describe a player’s upcard on third street (the first betting round). In the initial Stud deal, players are dealt three cards – two face down (downcards) and one face up (upcard) which is visible to the entire table. The upcard gives clues regarding the strength of a player’s overall holding and is referred to as the door card or simply the door.The door card also determines who acts first in regular Stud games; the player with the lowest ranked door card acts first on third street.

The term donk applies both to a specific poker action and to a specific type of poker player. Donk betting means to make a bet out of position when not the last aggressor on the previous betting round. The term donk is also used to describe a very bad poker. Caution is advised since many may find the term offensive. However, for professional players the word donk has evolved into a standard technical term for describing a soft target at the table.

Dog in poker is a shortened form of the word underdog and means that we are not a favourite to win in a certain situation. It could apply to us being a dog after the chips go in during a single hand of poker or it could apply to us being a dog in an entire event such as a tournament or a specific cash game limit.

Cap games are a poker format where there is a cap set on the maximum number of big blinds that can be used in a single hand. For example, in a 20bb cap gameonce a player has bet 20bb, he can no longer invest any additional chips into the pot (even if he has additional chips in his stack). The term capped is slightly different and describes a player who can’t have a holding above a certain strength due to the line they took.

A dealer is someone who deals cards for the purposes of a poker game. Poker games in casinos typically involve a designated dealer. In home games, the responsibility for dealing the cards often revolves around the table clockwise along with the dealer button. The term dealer may hence also be user to describe the player who occupies the button position at the table.

A dark bet or bet in the dark is a bet made without looking at all or any of the cards involved in a hand. For example, the player first to act on the flop in Hold’em, might make his flop betting decision before the flop cards have even been dealt. Naturally, betting in the dark is not an advisable strategy. It’s often used by players looking to gain a psychological advantage over their opponents or for entertainment value in the case of live TV.