Poker Night In The Cards

It’s “Boston Rob” to the Rescue as the former “Survivor” star teaches an Early Show viewer and her friends to play poker.

Former reality star “Boston” Rob Mariano was the great manipulator from “Survivor: All Stars.” He placed second and married the winner, Amber Brkich. The couple later competed together and nearly won “The Amazing Race.”

Both experiences came in handy as Rob recently headed to New Jersey to help a group of suburban housewives desperate for a night out and a game of Texas hold ‘em poker.

Poker dictionary:

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.)
POCKET ROCKETS - In Hold'em, a pair of aces for hole cards.
EXPECTATION - The long-run [dis-]advantage of a given situation, specifically without reference to any particular outcome. I.e., what you figure to win [lose] on average after a large number of repetitions of the same situation.
KICKER TROUBLE - Not having as high a kicker as an opponent.
CASE - The fourth card of a particular rank, as in "he folded the case 9" when describing where all the 9s were in a hand. Comes from the game of Faro where an employee of the house, called the "case keeper". kept track of the number of each rank of card remaining.
BIG SLICK - In Texas Hold'em, hole cards of A-K, suited or not.

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