draw dead

verb

draw dead

verb
1

Card games, Poker To play a drawing hand that is inevitably going to lose, no matter what the remaining community cards are.

  • Player A has Q8. Player B has J10. Table: J2J8. Player A made a pair, but he is drawing dead.
Coordinate terms
draw live, draw thin

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