To keep your hand or a chip on your cards. This prevents them from being fouled by a discarded hand, or accidentally muck ed by the dealer. It is the player's responsibility to protect his/her hand.

Keeping your hand or a chip on your cards.

(1) To call a raise from a blind position so as to not lose the blind money. (2) To put something on top of your cards in a live game to prevent a dealer error in mucking your cards.

To bet so the other player have less of a chance to outdraw you. If they outdraw you, they have to pay to do so.

A good strategy move in situations where you believe you have the lead but that lead is at risk of being lost if further cards are drawn. An example would be a set but with 2 cards on the board of the same suit threatening a flush. You would protect your hand by betting heavily to prevent card catchers from seeing the turn and river.

To protect a hand is to bet so that more people will fold, reducing the chances of anyone outdrawing you.

(1) To keep your hand or a chip on your cards. This prevents them from being fouled by a discarded hand, or accidentally mucked by the dealer. (2) To invest more money in a pot so blind money that you've already put in isn't "wasted." Example: "He'll always protect his blinds, no matter how bad his cards are."

To induce folding in order to prevent another player from outdrawing you is protecting your hand. This is done by betting and raising so that someone on a draw will fold rather than call to see if their cards come off. A protectable hand is one that is almost always the best, but is vulnerable to being outdrawn. It's easiest to protect a hand in no-limit play, where you can potentially make it as expensive as you like for someone to draw. To protect your cards is to put a chip or some other artifact on them so the dealer does not muck them.

This can mean one of two things: a) To place a chip or a hand on a players cards to prevent them from being seen. b) Investing more money in the pot so that the blind bets placed are not wasted.

To bet so as to reduce the changes of anyone outdrawing you by the getting them to fold.

The act of keeping your hand by placing a chip on them so that it's not fouled by a discarded hand or accidentally mucked by the dealer.

The act of betting or raising so that you charge your opponents to try and outdraw or beat you.

to keep a hand or a chip on the cards to prevent them from being fouled by a discarded hand or accidentally mucked by the dealer.

To protect a hand is to bet so as to reduce the chances of anyone outdrawing you (by getting them to fold). A hand that needs protection is one that is almost certainly best, but that is vulnerable to being outdrawn. Large pots make it difficult to protect hands, since players will be willing to chase more long shots. The structure of a game has a large impact on how easy it is to protect a hand, as do the personalities of the players at the table. It's easiest to protect a hand in no-limit play, where you can potentially make it as expensive as you like for someone to draw.To protect your cards is to place a chip or some other small object (players often have particular artifacts they like to use) on top of them so that they don't accidentally get mucked by the dealer, mixed with another player's discards, or otherwise become dead when you'd like to play them.

Betting/Raising to make your opponents pay a price to try and draw to beat you.

(1) To keep your hand or a chip on your cards. (2) To make a bet so as to reduce the chances of others outdrawing you by forcing them to fold.

to cover or shield from something that would destroy or injure

To shield from injury, danger or loss.