SHOPPING FOR . . . Poker chips
The expert: Edwin Silberstang (below), author of “The Winner’s Guide to Casino Poker” (Signet, $5.99). Poker has become an incredibly fashionable home game, thanks to televised tournaments featuring multimillion-dollar payouts.
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Poker slang:
- BELLY BUSTER - An inside straight draw. Same as GUTSHOT.
- THIRD STREET - In Stud, the third card dealt to each player.
- 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.
- HIT - To make a hand or catch a card or cards that improves one's hand. "I hit a gut-shot draw on the river."
- BLUFF - To make a bet or raise with a poor hand, in hope that the remaining active player(s) will fold.
- WHITE BLACKBIRD - A hand so astonishingly rare as to be unworthy of the opponents' consideration, e.g., being dealt a pat royal flush in 5-card draw.
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