Kill (poker)
1) To over blind (Put in a blind when one is already present.),
or sometimes just blind.
"I'll kill it" means the pot has probably already
been blinded and I'm putting in another blind that is
at least twice the size of the largest blind already in. Less
often to kill means to blind a pot that does not yet have a
blind.
2) Deliberately make a hand dead by a dealer prior to exposing
the hand when requested by a player. This is so the hand can
be shown without causing any possible arguments that the hand
might be legally entitled to the pot because it is still live.
For example, John bets on the river in hold 'em, and Sue calls.
As soon as Sue puts her chips in, John discards his cards un-shown,
indicating that he was bluffing and any hand that can call has
him beat. Willie, however, wants to see the hand, perhaps because
he wants to get a line on John's play, and says to the dealer,
"Turn that hand up." Since John's was a called hand
, the dealer must, by the rules in most card rooms, expose the
hand. He picks up John's cards, taps them against the discards
(thus killing the hand), and only then turns them face up.
