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What do you do when you can’t go to work? Why not play poker? A record number of users signed onto online poker site www.doylesroom.com in the early stages of the New York City transit strike this week, leading site supervisors to believe workers who could not get to work stayed home to play.

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Thu, December 22nd, 2005

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Poker terminology:

  • PROP - Also PROPOSITION PLAYER. An employee of the gaming establishment whose primary purpose is to keep enough players at a table to prevent breaking up the game for lack of players. Unlike SHILLs "props" make a small hourly wage but play with their own money, winning or losing based on their skill.
  • COMMUNITY CARDS - Cards that are available for every player to use in making a hand. Usually dealt face up somewhere in the middle of the table.
  • FLOP - [1] In Hold'em, the first three community cards, dealt simultaneously. [2] To deal a flop, or to make a hand on a flop. "I flopped trips".
  • MISDEAL - A hand dealt incorrectly that must be re-dealt.
  • NUT / NUTS - The best possible hand of a given class. Not a LOCK unless all cards have been dealt. The "nut flush" is the highest possible flush, but might still lose to, e.g., a full house. Usually used in Hold'em games.
  • TRIPS - Three of a kind. In Hold'em the term SET is used when two of the three cards are hole cards.
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