A Visit From St. Doyle

Time to take some of the stress out of the holiday season! With all apologies to Clement Moore, here’s a holiday present to the readers of PokerNews.

‘Twas the night before Christmas
And all through the house
The only thing heard
Was the clicking of a mouse

The stockings were hung
By the chimney with care…

COMPUTER HAND - Texas Hold'em hole cards of Q-7 offsuit. More generically, any hand that computer analysis/simulation determines is positive but turns out to be difficult to play in practice.
TABLE STAKES - A standard rule whereby during a hand players can only bet the money they have on the table. If the bet to a player is more than the player's stack, that player may call with all his chips and be eligible to win only that portion of the pot he contributed to equally. A side pot is created, for which only the remaining players may compete.
RUNNER-RUNNER - A hand made using both of the last two cards dealt.
OPEN-ENDED STRAIGHT - Four cards to a straight which can be completed by drawing a card at either end. E.g., 6-7-8-9 is an open-ended straight. Also: BOBTAIL STRAIGHT. Compare: INSIDE STRAIGHT.
FULL OF - Describes a full house. "Fives full of queens" is 5-5-5-Q-Q.
BUTTON CHARGE - A periodic fee paid by whoever is the button, perhaps every 20 minutes or 30 minutes. Constitutes part or all of the HOUSE CUT.

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