Poker Parties - Part 2
This week Indiana lawmakers and researchers from Purdue will meet to talk about families and gambling. One sure topic will be poker and its tremendous popularity among young Hoosiers.
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- Poker gets a full hand this Diwali
- Compulsive Poker Playing Linked to Physical Cause
- Trent Tucker Celebrity Golf & Poker Tournament and Celebrity Parties
- Video Vault: Party Time!
- Ben Affleck’s Democratic Convention Plan: Poker!
- Two Online Poker Rooms Stay by Playtech
- Travel Channel to Air Professional Poker Tour
- Officials: Man with wild past caused SMU student’s death
- Risk of robbery can raise the stakes at private poker parties
Useful poker terms:
- LAY ODDS - To give favorable odds to an opponent.
- GOOD GAME - A game with players worse than you so that you can expect to win a lot of money.
- FORCED BET - In some stud games a player may be required to make a bet to start the action on the first card. This is similar conceptually to blinds and antes, but in this case is dependent on the cards shown rather than player position. Usually the weakest hand is forced to bet.
- TOKE - Gambling term for "tip", as in "Toke the cocktail waitress". Comes from the term "Token of appreciation".
- LOOSE - Playing more hands than the norm. Antonym: TIGHT.
- LEAK - To show one's hole cards (often unknowingly).
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