Texas Hold ‘Em Players Held Up in Va. Home
After a robbery at a Fairfax County poker game last week, players of the wildly popular Texas Hold ‘Em games around the region are watching their backs at the poker table.
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Poker glossary:
- SEMI-BLUFF - To bluff with a come hand that figures to win if it hits.
- EDGE - An advantage over an opponent, either specific or subjective.
- COMPUTER HAND - Texas Hold'em hole cards of Q-7 offsuit. More generically, any hand that computer analysis/simulation determines is positive but turns out to be difficult to play in practice.
- BLACK - When referring to chips, black usually stands for $100 casino chips. "This guy sits down with a stack of blacks and raises the first bet." Not ALL casinos use black for $100 but that is the common usage.
- HOOK - A Jack. So named because the "J" resembles a hook.
- TABLE STAKES - A standard rule whereby during a hand players can only bet the money they have on the table. If the bet to a player is more than the player's stack, that player may call with all his chips and be eligible to win only that portion of the pot he contributed to equally. A side pot is created, for which only the remaining players may compete.
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