Poker Play Pays For College
Carnegie Mellon student Jeremy Olisar won’t be paying his college tuition. Thanks to his skill at cards, his bill will be covered by online poker room AbsolutePoker.com. Olisar, 21, will receive a check this month covering his fall tuition, thanks to his final place finish in the “Win Your Tuition” online poker tournament in October…
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Poker glossary:
- NICKEL - Five dollars, usually represented by a red casino check.
- CASE - The fourth card of a particular rank, as in "he folded the case 9" when describing where all the 9s were in a hand. Comes from the game of Faro where an employee of the house, called the "case keeper". kept track of the number of each rank of card remaining.
- MAIN POT - The main pot, as related to one or more side pots, when there are one or more all-in player(s). The main pot is the one in which all active players participate.
- KICKER - In hands containing pairs and trips, the highest card not matched. In draw games, sometimes a card kept for deception purposes.
- DOOR [CARD] - A player's first upcard in stud games.
- FIFTH STREET - In stud poker, the fifth card to be dealt to each player. Sometimes used to refer to the last card dealt in Hold'em, although the more common term for this is RIVER (q.v.).
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