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- noun poker slang
Chips that a player who has sincefolded has put into thepot . - noun poker slang Money of
weaker players.
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Examples
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I felt I was seeing signs of the financial lull last autumn when the loose money (players who have fun gambling and are happy to lose) and the dead money (players who aren’t any good, and will lose whether they’re happy about it or not) began to dry up.
Paul Myerscough · Diary: Confessions of a Poker Player · LRB 29 January 2009 Paul Myerscough 2019
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