How miniature cameras made the card game a growing spectator sport
When Henry Orenstein first envisioned a miniature camera that could be installed in a poker table to show a player’s hidden, or “hole,” cards to the audience, televised poker games were little more than a novelty act. Sure, you could find poker on cable TV in the mid-1990s, but it was usually relegated to a time slot in the middle of the night, alongside wild turkey hunting or the lumberjack competition. With his invention - sometimes called a lipstick camera or a “pocket cam” - Orenstein cleare …
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Useful poker terms:
- 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.
- TOKE - Gambling term for "tip", as in "Toke the cocktail waitress". Comes from the term "Token of appreciation".
- POCKET PAIR - Generic Hold'em term for 2 hole cards of the same rank.
- REPRESENT - Implying, by one's betting style, that one has a particular hand.
- FIRE - To make the first bet in a betting round. Used to emphasize that the player bet when a check was possible, showing strength.
- BUNNY - An eight. So named because one can easily draw "rabbit ears" above the numeral 8, "paws" in the middle and "feet" at the bottom. (Do this only at home, and not on cards that will be used for play.)
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