cold deck

Meanings

Noun

• A hand where two or more players have very strong hands and one or more of them loses a lot of chips despite the strength of the hand(s) involved.
• A pre-shuffled deck of cards substituted for the real deck in order to cheat.

Verb

• To inflict a cold deck situation on an opponent.

Related

Similar words

• cooler

Origin

• From the metaphor that the deck (of cards) is cold, in the sense "heartless, emotionless"