How To Qualify As A Poker Pro
Former Los Angeles attorney turned poker pro Mark Seif fields regular reader inquiries, offering his unique brand of poker strategies and advice. Mark’s experiences have taken him from the most challenging courtrooms to the world’s best poker rooms, and now to the AskMen.com reader.
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Poker slang:
- BURN - To discard the top card of the deck prior to dealing, usually done for every dealing round except the first. The theory being that if somehow the cards are marked (illegally) no one will know what card will next be dealt, only what card will be burned. This makes marked cards less of an advantage, hence tends to reduce cheating.
- PAY OFF - Calling a bet with little expectation of winning, unless the opponent is bluffing.
- MILES OF BAD ROAD - Three of a kind. Prefixed with a number, 3*<N>, to indicate 3 <N>s. Thus "24 miles of bad road" is 3 eights, etc. (This obviously doesn't work for face cards.)
- ROLLED UP - In seven-card stud, being dealt three of a kind in the first three cards.
- LIVE ONE - The best kind of opponent, a poor player with a lot of money to lose and in a hurry to lose it.
- SHORT-STACKED - Playing with a only a small amount of money, thus limiting one's risk and reward.
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