Crossfire ( poker )


Perform the action of two players who keep raising and re-raising each other, while one player
between them keeps having to call further bets to remain in the pot. This can happen in a high-low
game in which one player has an excellent high, another thinks he has a lock on low, and a third is trying to
make a hand that he thinks will beat one or both of them. While a whipsaw situation may be quite honest,
it sometimes also involves collusion between the raisers for the purpose of extracting the maximum from the sandwiched player.
To prevent this sort of situation, most card rooms limit the number of raises in any one round in limit games.
Comes from the action of two men wielding a whipsaw (a large, two-handled crosscut saw) to cut down a tree.