Police Blunder Ends Case Against Poker Players
BALTIMORE, Nov. 11 (AP) - Charges against 80 poker players arrested last week in a major gambling raid will be dropped, prosecutors say, because the police quoted the wrong statute when the players were charged.
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Poker jargon:
- STEAM - Playing wildly, calling and raising a lot, because one is upset. Compare: ON TILT.
- RACE - In tournaments it is sometimes convenient to remove all lower-denomination chips from play, as the remaining players' stacks tend to grow. Small chips are converted to larger chips and any odd chips are "raced off" in the following way: each player with odd chips places them in front of his stack and is dealt one card for each chip. Highest card (rank and suit) takes all the small chips and converts them to higher-denomination chips.
- DECLARE - In high/low games, declaring one's hand as high or low or both ways (usually done with chips in hand). Usually played in home games; casinos tend to play CARDS SPEAK.
- BELLY BUSTER - An inside straight draw. Same as GUTSHOT.
- WIRED [PAIR] - A pair in the hole. In 5-card stud, a door card that pairs the hole card.
- LIMIT POKER - A poker game wherein the amount to be bet is fixed, or at most variable within a prescribed minimum and maximum. Ant.: NO-LIMIT POKER.
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