College-age gamblers find poker games bring high stakes
TAMPA - Poker is one of the hottest games on television right now. But, look beyond the TV-made millionaires, and you’ll find a new generation of gambling addicts.
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Poker lexicon:
- MARKED CARDS - Cards that have been (illegally) altered so that their value can be read from the back.
- CRYING CALL - A call made with little chance of ultimately winning, but marginally better than an immediate fold.
- BLUFF - To make a bet or raise with a poor hand, in hope that the remaining active player(s) will fold.
- STAND OFF - To call a raise. "Opener raises, I stand off".
- SET - In Hold'em, three of a kind where two of the cards are hole cards.
- 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.
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