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KANSAS CITY LOWBALL:
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A form of draw poker low also known as deuce-to-seven, in which the best hand is 7-5-4-3-2 and straights and flushes count against you.
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KICKER:
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The highest unpaired card that helps determine the value of a five-card poker hand.
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KILL (OR KILL BLIND):
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An oversize blind, usually twice the size of the big blind and doubling the limit. Sometimes a “half-kill” increasing the blind and limits by fifty percent is used. A kill can be either voluntary or mandatory. The most common requirements of a mandatory kill are for winning two pots in a row at lowball and other games, or for scooping a pot in high-low split.
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KILL BUTTON:
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A button used in a lowball game to indicate a player who has won two pots in a row and is required to kill the pot.
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KILL POT:
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A pot with a forced kill by the winner of the two previous pots, or the winner of an entire pot of sufficient size in a high-low split game. (Some pots can be voluntarily killed.)
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