hole card

The hole cards are the first three and the last one to each player.

His hole card had turned out to be a good one.

Reed decided the time had come to play what might turn out to be Earth's hole card.

I was pretty sure what their hole cards were now.

He had a candidate, a hole card, for playing at the last moment.

Now it was time for him to play his hole card.

About that time I suddenly began to look at my hole card.

Players can use any number of hole cards to make the final hand.

That was the hole card for this entire business, he knew.

Except for their hole cards, all players have the same information.