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Kill - Poker (gambling)


1) To over blind (Put in a blind when one is already present.), or sometimes just blind. "I' ll kill it" means the pot has probably already been blinded and I' m putting in another blind that is at least twice the size of the largest blind already in. Less often to kill means to blind a pot that does not yet have a blind.

2) Deliberately make a hand dead by a dealer prior to exposing the hand when requested by a player. This is so the hand can be shown without causing any possible arguments that the hand might be legally entitled to the pot because it is still live. For example, John bets on the river in hold ' em, and Sue calls. As soon as Sue puts her chips in, John discards his cards un-shown, indicating that he was bluffing and any hand that can call has him beat. Willie, however, wants to see the hand, perhaps because he wants to get a line on John' s play, and says to the dealer, "Turn that hand up." Since John' s was a called hand , the dealer must, by the rules in most card rooms, expose the hand. He picks up John' s cards, taps them against the discards (thus killing the hand), and only then turns them face up.



A "kill" game is one in which a player may place an extra bet, causing the betting limits to go up for just that hand. The player posting the bet is the "killer," and the hand is considered a "kill pot." The player is said to have "killed the pot" for the amount of the kill. The exact details depend on the local rules and on the game.



As examples, here are the rules for three kill games I've played in (all in San Diego). In the kill hold'em game, any player who wins two pots in a row is required to kill by posting a blind small bet on the subsequent hand, with the limits doubled for that hand. In a kill high-low split game, any player who scooped a pot larger than a certain size was required to kill the subsequent pot. And in a draw game, any player could kill any pot for an arbitrary amount after looking at their first two cards. These are just examples, the details vary from cardroom to cardroom.