Poker terminology - Terms with a "D"

Dame - A queen.
 
Dark Bet - A blind bet.
 
Daub - See Cosmetics (Golden Glow brand).
 
Dead Cards - Discarded or folded cards.
 
Dead Hand - A foul hand that cannot be played.
 
Dead Man's Hand - Usually aces and eights, two pair. Sometimes aces and eights, full house ... or jacks and eights, two pair.
 
Deadwood - Dead cards.
 
Deal - To distribute cards to the players.
 
Deal Off - To deal the final hand of the game.
 
Deal Out - To omit a player from a hand.
 
Dealer - (1) A person who deals the cards. (2) The operator of a gambling game in a casino.
 
Dealer's Choice - The selection by dealer of game to be played.
 
Dealer's Percentage - Any game offering the dealer a significant advantage (Dealer's Game, Dealer's Advantage).
 
Dealer-Advantage Game - Any game where the dealer has an advantage.
 
Debone - A card or portion of a deck that has been crimped lengthwise or crosswise.
 
Deception - An important and accepted tool of poker.
 
Deck - All the cards used in the game (Pack)
 
Declare - To announce if going for high or low.
 
Deep Low - The lowest hand for any card (i.e., a deep seven is an ace, two, three, four, seven).
 
Defensive Bet - A bet designed to decrease one's potential loss.
 
Dent - To mark cards by creasing their corners (Rounding).
 
Deuce - A two.
 
Deuce to Seven - Usually means that the best low hand is simply the worst poker hand in a game played for low.
 
Deuces Wild - Playing all deuces as wild cards.
 
Devil's Bedposts - A four of clubs.
 
Diamond - See Poker Diamond.
 
Dig - To replenish one's stake or money while playing a hand.
 
Discard - To exchange old cards for new cards during the draw or twist.
 
Disproportionate Bet - A peculiar bet or a bet much larger or smaller than the normal bet.
 
Doctor Pepper - Seven-card stud with deuces, fours, and tens wild.
 
Dog - (1) Any big-dog or little-dog hand. (2) An underdog. Doghouse Cut
 
Dominate - A starting hand that will likely beat another starting hand is said to dominate that hand.
 
Door Card - The first card dealt face up to each player in seven-card stud is the door card.
 
Double - To raise.
 
Double Belly Buster - A hand with two inside straight draws is a double belly buster.
 
Double Bluff - A bluff made by making a bluff bet on the final round and then reraising a subsequent raise.
 
Double Header - (1) A pot not won that passes to the next deal. (2) A second game that follows an earlier one.
 
Double-Barreled Shotgun - High-low draw with four rounds of betting after the draw as each card is turned face-up (Texas Tech).
 
Double-End Straight - See Bobtail.
 
Doubling Up - Betting twice as much as the previous bet.
 
Down and Dirty - The final hole card dealt in seven-card stud.
 
Down Cards - Cards dealt face-down.
 
Down the Chute - To take a heavy loss.
 
Down the River - Seven-card stud.
 
Drag (Snatch) - Money separated from a pot to signify the amount owed by a player (Light).
 
Draw - The exchange of a card or cards for new ones.
 
Draw Out - To catch the winning hand with the last card or with draw cards.
 
Draw Poker - One of the two basic forms of poker (the other is stud). Played as a closed five-card hand with a closed draw.
 
Drawing Dead - Drawing a hand that cannot win.
 
Drawing Hand - A drawing hand is a hand that you expect to be on a draw.
 
Drib - An inferior player.
 
Driller - A loose player. A player who bets and raises frequently.
 
Driver's Seat - The player holding the best advantage.
 
Drop or Drop Out - To retire from a hand by not calling a bet or raise (Fold).
 
Drum - To play tight.
 
Drummer or Drummer Boy - A tight player.
 
Dry - To be out of money (Broke).
 
DTC Method - The technique of good poker . . . Discipline, Thought. and then Control.
 
Duck - A deuce.
 
Duffer - An inexperienced or poor player.
 
Duke - A hand of cards.
 
Dutch Straight - See Alternate Straight.
 
Dynamite - A two-card poker game.