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What is Cripple in Poker?

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Cripple can mean:

1. To cripple the deck by having such a strong hand that opponents cannot have any strong hands. For example, if you hold AA on a board of A-A-2, you have the deck ‘”crippled”.

2. When a player loses most of their stack in a tournament, their stack is “crippled”.

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