Charities capitalize on poker boom
ROCKFORD Poker is the new bingo. At least, thats how a growing number of charities in the Rock River Valley feel. Just ask John Guth, director of Ken-Rock Community Center. Like many other nonprofit groups, Ken-Rock has watched charitable donations dry up in recent years.
Budget shortfalls have forced the neighborhood center to lay off two full-time employees since 2002. And revenue from weekly bingo games is slipping.
So Guth organized a Texas Hold ’Em tournament in March that offered as the grand prize a seat at the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas…
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Poker slang:
- ONE-EYED - The jack of hearts, jack of spades or king of diamonds. So named because the characters are drawn in profile, thus showing only one eye.
- 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.
- FULL HOUSE - A hand consisting of 3-of-a-kind and a (different) pair.
- MANIAC - A player who bets, raises and reraises without regard to the quality of his hand. Most often found in flop games.
- RAIL - A barrier dividing the card playing area from a public area.
- S&M - Sklansky & Malmuth. Generally refers to the ideas and algorithms published by these two authors. When used in a 7-card stud context, often refers to "7 Card Stud For Advanced Players", and when used in a Hold'em context, often refers to "Texas Hold'em For Advanced Players".
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