Gifted Artist Picks an Unusual Canvas and Creates Some Truly Winning Designs Illustrated Poker Chips Make Their Debut
Poker Chip e-tailer commissions artist to illustrate custom-designed poker chips…with stunning results. Cashing in on the current heat wave of poker popularity, InstantPokerChips.com today launches a unique new line of poker chips. This limited edition line features the original illustrations of artist Barrett Hinkle.
The innovative poker chip set reflects the new face of today’s poker player. No longer limited to smoky back rooms, poker is now a trendy, popular, all-inclusive game. With this wider range of consumers comes a higher demand for something new, something different.
“We wanted to offer one-of-a-kind items to our loyal poker shoppers, something they could only find on our site,” explains Brad Fallon, owner of InstantPokerChips.com. “There are only so many times you can print ‘Vegas’ on a poker chip before it’s just the same old, same old. So I started thinking about what I personally, as a poker player, would like to have at my next game“…
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Useful poker terms:
- 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.
- SET - In Hold'em, three of a kind where two of the cards are hole cards.
- WORLD SERIES OF POKER - A series of several different poker games with relatively large buy-ins, culminating in a $10,000 buy-in no-limit Hold'em tournament, the winner of which is crowned the World Poker Champion. Sponsored by Binion's Horseshoe Club in Las Vegas.
- SMALL BLIND - In games with two blinds the first blind is the SMALL BLIND because it is usually one-half (or less) the second or large blind.
- RAGS - Board cards that are small, not suited and not in sequence, e.g., 9-5-2. When "rags flop", it is unlikely that anyone has a good hand, except possibly the big blind in an unraised pot.
- WIRED [PAIR] - A pair in the hole. In 5-card stud, a door card that pairs the hole card.
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