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Hole card   /hoʊl kɑrd/   Listen
Hole card

noun
1.
Any assets that are concealed until they can be used advantageously.
2.
(poker) a playing card dealt face down and not revealed until the showdown.






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"Hole card" Quotes from Famous Books



... time, actually read in the man's mind what his "hole card" was, he found. But he could quite easily sense from the player's mind whether the latter considered it a good one, a very poor one, or only a possible winner. By watching the play as well as studying the man's feelings, facial movements and muscle twitches or tensenesses, Hanlon was soon ...
— Man of Many Minds • E. Everett Evans



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