WPT’s Lyle Berman thinks poker as popular as pro golf on TV
Although his personal tastes run more toward game fishing and skeet shooting, Lyle Berman names another sport as the one poker is most likely to emulate as it evolves: pro golf. Berman, the man who effectively controls the World Poker Tour as the organization’s executive chairman, sees some similarities between the fairways and the green baize, the roughs and the bluffs. As a televised competitive event, “poker is still in its infancy,” Berman said recently at the Gambler’s Book Shop near downtown…
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Poker lexicon:
- PAT - Holding or being dealt a pat hand. "I'm pat" would mean "I don't want to draw any cards.
- BUNNY - An eight. So named because one can easily draw "rabbit ears" above the numeral 8, "paws" in the middle and "feet" at the bottom. (Do this only at home, and not on cards that will be used for play.)
- ROLLED UP - In seven-card stud, being dealt three of a kind in the first three cards.
- FLUSH - A poker hand consisting of five cards all one suit.
- 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.
- SIXTH STREET - The sixth card dealt in 7-card stud.
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