Drawing Dead

Created by Ragnar4 on July 20, 2009

Definition

A situation that rarely occurs in poker, used to describe a hand that has no hope of becoming the better hand by the river.

Example

He had no clue when he shoved all in on the turn, with top pair only against my set, he was drawing dead.

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