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Community cards are cards that are dealt face up in the centre of the poker table. All players may make use of community cards to make their hand. Variants like Omaha and Hold’em make big use of community cards but not all variants of poker involve community cards. For example, Draw games and Stud games do not use community cards although there is one very specific exception in Stud games where the deck runs out of cards – a lone community card is dealt on the river.

Find the meaning of the term "Combo Draw" in poker. See examples of combo draws and strategy application.

Collusion describes the act of working together with other players at the table in order to gain an unfair advantage. Poker is a solo game, any collaboration with other players is against the rules and can result in a permanent ban from the game in question. There are various different forms of collusion, such as soft playing, chip dumping, and sharing hole card (or other) information.

A coldcall is a call that’s made as our very first action in the hand. It’s generally a call made when facing an open-raise, since if there is no open raiser a call is generally referred to as a ‘limp’.Cold callscan also be made when facing preflop 3bets and 4bets, provided the call is the very first action we take in the hand.

To play our C-Game means that we don’t feel we are performing at our best at the tables. We feel that we are making a number of mistakes that we usually manage to avoid on a better day. The term C-game also has close ties with our mental state when playing. Playing C-game could indicate that we are getting emotionally affected by our short term results and making bad decisions as a result of frustration or ‘tilt’. Other letters may also be used to describe the quality of our game, A-game, B-game, D-Game, etc. The further up the alphabet we go, the better our game gets – with A-game being the best.

A cash game is a type of poker game where all players are free to buy-in and leave at any point. If a player loses chips he is free to buy additional chips at any point (while not in a hand). Cash games are generally the preferred game for professional players since the swings are smaller and the gains are more consistent relative to tournaments.