Learning that a poker experts’s advice is worth its weight in gold
Poker expert Mike Sexton was trying to make the point that winners of big tournaments are afforded fame, fortune and glory while second-place finishers are relegated to the discard tray of history. “Who can tell me who the runner-up was in the World Series of Poker?” Sexton asked students at the World Poker Tour Boot Camp at the Mirage last weekend. The students, seated around a couple of poker tables in a small conference room, paused for perhaps half a second before chanting in unison, “Steve Da…
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Poker dictionary:
- FREEZE-OUT - A table-stakes game that continues until a small number of players (possibly only one) has all the money. The major event in The World Series of Poker is a freeze-out game.
- 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.
- OFFSUIT - Not of the same suit. "I held A-Q offsuit" or "The flop was 10-6-2 offsuit". When speaking of 5 or more cards, not all/ of the same suit, i.e., no flush, as in "button had A-K-10-8-7 offsuit."
- 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.
- DRAW - [1] A class of poker games characterized by players being dealt 5 cards face-down and later having the opportunity to replace some of the original 5. "Draw poker" and "Five-card draw" are examples of usage. [2] In stud and Hold'em games, the set of cards that will be dealt later can be collectively called "the draw". [3] To discard some number of cards and have dealt an equal number of replacements.
- STRAIGHT FLUSH - A hand consisting of 5 cards in sequence and the same suit.
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