Drawing dead

Drawing Dead is a situation in poker where a hand is doing so badly compared to another hand that no card that may come on the board is able to help it.

e.g "Abe's Ace 10 is drawing dead against Naomi's pocket kings, since she flopped Quads and the other flop card was a 4."

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