The Oakland Post - Students all-in for poker
Will you be bold, or will you fold? That is the slogan for the All-In Poker Club at Oakland University, where students come to master their skills in one of the most popular card games in the country.
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Poker lexicon:
- SMALL BLIND - In games with two blinds the first blind is the SMALL BLIND because it is usually one-half (or less) the second or large blind.
- DRAW OUT - To catch a card that improves your situation from a losing hand to a winning hand, especially when you beat someone holding a hand that usually figures to win.
- SET - In Hold'em, three of a kind where two of the cards are hole cards.
- WORLD SERIES OF POKER - A series of several different poker games with relatively large buy-ins, culminating in a $10,000 buy-in no-limit Hold'em tournament, the winner of which is crowned the World Poker Champion. Sponsored by Binion's Horseshoe Club in Las Vegas.
- BICYCLE - The best possible low hand: A-2-3-4-5. More common term: WHEEL.
- SUICIDE KING - King of Hearts. So named because in the drawing the king appears to be stabbing himself in the head.
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