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n. (context poker English) 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. vb. (context nonstandard English) To inflict a cold deck situation on an opponent.
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Cold Deck is a 2015 Canadian thriller film directed by Zack Bernbaum, written by Stefano Gallo, Jason LaPeyre, Slater Jewell-Kempker, and starring Gallo, Robert Knepper, and Paul Sorvino. Gallo plays a compulsive gambler who, after a losing streak, accepts an offer by a local underworld figure (Sorvino) to rob a high stakes poker game hosted by a rich banker (Knepper).
Usage examples of "cold deck".
He doubled over, coughing, trapped by his weakening body on the hard cold deck of the Shriwirr.
They'd put bruises on him and half-frozen him, soaking him with water, they'd dumped him on the burning cold deck, and he didn't give a damn what else they were doing, or threatened to do, he wasn't playing their silly games to get In with them, not if he froze to death.
Some sleight of hand would be required when he got the deal and had to switch the cold deck in and do the pull-through shuffle and the table shift to negate the cut, and these cards were bigger than normal playing cards, but Ozzie had taught the young Scott how to do those moves smoothly before he was ten years old, and he had no doubt that his hands remembered the skills.
Raw sunlight filtered through her window to spill rainbows across the rugs that covered the cold deck plates.
There was even a point when Phaid found himself sitting without any customers at all, just riffling through a cold deck at a vacant table.
His toes clenched, and his arches arched a bit higher against the cold deck.
Lying sprawled on the cold deck, Wilson LaRue had his ugly head split asunder.
When he set the tray down on the deck I'd just cut, he left that cold deck.
And by the way, the reason they call it a cold deck is that the man who's dealing it has a cold lock--nothing's going to change it.