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In games of poker, a stacked deck is referred to that standard card deck which is arranged in a predetermined manner so that when the cards are dealt, the result will be engineered. Now when a deck of stacked cards are swapped with the deck of cards that is meant to be dealt with an object to give the dealer an advantage, then it is called a cold deck. It is to be remembered that a situation of cold deck is used by dishonest gamblers for cheating and used mostly in poker games and sometimes in blackjack games.

The name comes from the concept that since the cards used in the game will be warm due to the players handling them and so the other card deck is cold, being not in use. Cold deck also refers to the deck of card itself or the practice of using a cold deck situation. Sometimes it I used as a verb to allude to the action of cheating or getting cheated.

In recent times, whenever in a game of poker a situation occurs that is not impossible but very rare, the hand of play is said to have been played with a cold deck. It is evident that the situations when a player has been holding a four of a kind card, where the values of the card are same and suits are different or when there is a hand of straight flush that requires five successive cards belonging to the same suit are hands that are very uncommon though not technically impossible. However, it is also definite that the straight flush is rarer than four of a kind hand. Now, if one player has a four of a kind hand and takes it for granted he is going to win the pot but ends up getting beaten by his opponent holding a straight flush, the first player may complain of a cold deck situation without explicitly accusing there has been a dishonest trick.