Senator Joe McCarthy Poker Player, Communist-Hater
Joseph McCarthy was one of those self-made Americans. He worked and willed his way from ignorance and anonymity to the United States Senate. Senator McCarthy fulfilled the American dream… then turned it into a national nightmare.
Born on a small Wisconsin farm in 1908, Joe was one of nine children. At 14, he went to work on a chicken farm. Determined to succeed, he eventually completed high school and attended Marquette University.
Joe worked every kind of job he could find in order to stay in school. He was even the focus of a story in the Milwaukee Sentinel newspaper about a fine young man who was working his way through college. As it happened, he was dating the reporter who wrote it.
At Marquette, McCarthy developed his poker skills. Unlike most of the affluent students, Joe could seldom afford to lose. A biographer writes that on one occasion he “made a killing at the expense of some alumni on a football trip to Pittsburgh”.
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Casino poker language:
- RIVER - The last card dealt in a hand of stud or Hold'em.
- POT - The total amount of money bet so far in a hand.
- OUT - [1] A card that will improve your hand, often substantially. A hand with many OUTS is preferable to a hand with only 1 or 2. [2] Folded, ineligible to bet or win this hand. "I'm out" is often a synonym for "I fold".
- TRIPS - Three of a kind. In Hold'em the term SET is used when two of the three cards are hole cards.
- TRIP - Three of a specific kind, as in "Trip sixes".
- LAY ODDS - To give favorable odds to an opponent.
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