Hooks & Cuts on Golf’s Winding Trail
At least golf invented the celebrity play-along concept. Lord knows were inundated with celebrity television vehicles these days — ‘Dancing with the Stars,’ ‘Skating with the Stars,’ ‘Celebrity Poker.’ Theres no limit to the public’s appetite for this kind of fare.
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Casino poker language:
- LAY ODDS - To give favorable odds to an opponent.
- DRAW OUT - To catch a card that improves your situation from a losing hand to a winning hand, especially when you beat someone holding a hand that usually figures to win.
- LOWBALL - Generic term for poker where the lowest hand wins.
- RING GAME - A standard game where players can come and go as they choose. The opposite of TOURNAMENT.
- MILES OF BAD ROAD - Three of a kind. Prefixed with a number, 3*<N>, to indicate 3 <N>s. Thus "24 miles of bad road" is 3 eights, etc. (This obviously doesn't work for face cards.)
- RAINBOW - In flop games, a flop in which no two cards are of the same suit. "The flop was A 9 7 rainbow."
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