Stakes soar with guests on Flynt’s jet
ON THE WAY HOME from Monte Carlo, I paid for a one-way seat on Larry Flynt’s private jet. With one quick stop scheduled in Bangor, Maine, for fuel and pizza, it was to be pretty much a 12-hour straight shot to Las Vegas. Phil Ivey, Gus Hansen, Mike “The Mouth” Matusow and I were scheduled to play $400- to $800-limit poker all the way home. What’s not to like? We were flying high, playing high-stakes poker (so the time would pass more quickly), and perhaps I could win $50,000 on the flight home…
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Poker glossary:
- INSIDE STRAIGHT - Four cards to a straight, where only one rank will complete the hand. E.g., 4-5-6-8 is an inside straight since only a 7 will fill (i.e., complete) the hand. Often called a GUT-SHOT. Compare: BOBTAIL STRAIGHT, OPEN-ENDED STRAIGHT.
- BAD GAME - Any game in which you figure to be the loser, because the other players are better than you.
- TOKE - Gambling term for "tip", as in "Toke the cocktail waitress". Comes from the term "Token of appreciation".
- POCKET PAIR - Generic Hold'em term for 2 hole cards of the same rank.
- MIDDLE POSITION - Betting positions approximately halfway around the table from the first player to act.
- FIFTH STREET - In stud poker, the fifth card to be dealt to each player. Sometimes used to refer to the last card dealt in Hold'em, although the more common term for this is RIVER (q.v.).
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