Marines go all in for alcohol-free poker tournament

MARINE CORPS AIR STATION YUMA, Ariz. — Fifty-eight station and visiting Marines put on their best poker faces and hoped for a bit of luck as they packed the Gonzalez Room at the Sonoran Pueblo Saturday night to participate in the Drug Demand Reduction Program’s No Limit Texas Hold ‘Em poker tournament. First place winner Lori Loghry received a Marine Corps noncommissioned officer sword donated by Marine Wing Support Squadron 371. Justin Driskill, Marine Aviation Logistics Squadron 13 poker players …

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Poker dictionary:

DOOR [CARD] - A player's first upcard in stud games.
DEAD MAN'S HAND - Generically: two pair, aces and eights. Specifically: the black aces, black eights and nine of diamonds. The hand Wild Bill Hickok was holding when he was shot to death.
BICYCLE - The best possible low hand: A-2-3-4-5. More common term: WHEEL.
DRAWING DEAD - A draw in which it is impossible to obtain a winning hand for any of a variety of reasons: an opponent's hand is better than whatever you are drawing to, the card(s) that make your hand are out of play, or (in Hold'em) give an opponent a stronger hand even if it makes yours. Frequently used in the past tense, since one rarely knows it at the time.
FILL - To draw a card that makes a five-card hand (straight, flush, full house, straight flush).
STRING BET - An unethical and often illegal means of raising whereby a player puts a call-size stack of chips into the pot and, after observing the reactions of the players, then goes back to his stack and puts out more, thus raising.

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