Take It to the Limit
It’s a Friday night, and against my better judgment I’ve got $200 sitting in front of me in a no-limit Texas Hold ‘Em cash game in a nondescript building, well, let’s just say somewhere in Philadelphia. To my right there’s a table full of gamblers from Chinatown playing $2-$5 no-limit, and to my left another full table playing $1-$2 no-limit. The dealers move in and out of the tables at set intervals exactly like they do at the Taj Mahal in Atlantic City. I’m sitting calmly at a casino-quality …
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Casino poker language:
- PROP - Also PROPOSITION PLAYER. An employee of the gaming establishment whose primary purpose is to keep enough players at a table to prevent breaking up the game for lack of players. Unlike SHILLs "props" make a small hourly wage but play with their own money, winning or losing based on their skill.
- 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.
- MUCK - [1] A collection of face-down cards near the dealer composed of discards, i.e., folded hands, burns and discards for drawing purposes. [2] To throw one's cards into the muck, thus folding.
- RING GAME - A standard game where players can come and go as they choose. The opposite of TOURNAMENT.
- COLD CALL - Calling both a bet and raise at the same time, as opposed to calling a bet then later calling a raise made after the call.
- HOOK - A Jack. So named because the "J" resembles a hook.
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