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Cage
The cashier, where you exchange cash for chips and vice versa.
Call
To match, rather than raise, the previous bet.
Call Cold
To call a bet and raise at once.
Calling Station
A player who invariably calls, and is therefore hard to bluff out.
Cap
In limit games, the limit on the number of raises in a round of betting.
Card Room
The room or area in a casino where poker is played.
Case Card
The last card of a denomination or suit, when the rest have already been seen.
Case Chips
A player's last chips.
Cash In
To leave the game and convert one's chips to cash, either with the dealer or at the cage.
Cash Out
To leave a game and cash in one's chips at the cage.
Caught Speeding
Slang for caught bluffing.
Chase
To stay in against an apparently stronger hand, usually in the hope of filling a straight or flush.
Check
To abstain from betting, reserving the right to call or raise if another player bets. Also another name for a chip.
Check-Raise
To check and raise in a betting round.
Check In The Dark
To check before looking at the card or cards just dealt.
Cheese
A very substandard starting hand.
Chip Race
As the limits increase in tournaments, lower denomination chips are taken out of circulation. Rather than rounding odd chips up or down for each player, the players are dealt a card for each odd chip. The player with the highest card is given all the odd chips, which are then colored up.
Chop
To return the blinds to the players who posted them and move on to the next hand, if nobody calls the blind.
Cinch Hand
An unbeatable hand; nuts.
Closed Hand
A hand in which all cards are concealed from the opponents.
Closed Poker
Games in which all of the cards are dealt face down.
Coffee Housing
An attempt to mislead opponents about one's hand by means of devious speech or behavior.
Cold
If a player says his cards have "gone cold," he's having a bad streak.
Cold Call
To call a raise without having already put the initial bet into the pot.
Cold Deck
A fixed deck.
Color Up
To exchange one's chips for chips of higher value, usually to reduce the number of chips one has on the table.
Come
Playing a worthless hand in the hope of improving it is called "playing on the come."
Come Hand
A hand that has not yet been made, requiring one or more cards from the draw to complete it.
Come Over The Top
To raise or reraise an opponent's bet.
Commit Fully
To put in as many chips as necessary to play your hand to the river, even if they're your case chips.
Community Cards
In flop games and similar games, the cards dealt face up in the center of the table that are shared by all active players.
Connectors
Consecutive cards which might make a straight.
Counterfeit
In Omaha Hi/Lo, when the board pairs your key low card, demoting the value of your hand.
Cowboy
Slang for a King.
Crack
To beat a powerful hand.
Crying Call
A call with a hand you think has a small chance of winning.
Cut It Up
To split the pot after a tie.
Cut The Pot
To take a percentage of each pot for the casino running the game.