Is poker in or out of the mainstream?
Ever since poker began moving up from New Orleans on Mississippi River steamboats about 200 years ago, newspaper and dictionary editors as well as military, business and political chroniclers have tended to devalue its cultural currency or ignore it altogether.They’ve often done so in the face of abundant evidence that playing poker helped numerous American movers and shakers make their way in the world.For 19th century figures such as the statesman Henry Clay, sheriffs Bill Hickok and Pat Garre
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Poker lingo:
- FULL OF - Describes a full house. "Fives full of queens" is 5-5-5-Q-Q.
- SEMI-BLUFF - To bluff with a come hand that figures to win if it hits.
- PAY OFF - Calling a bet with little expectation of winning, unless the opponent is bluffing.
- MUCK - [1] A collection of face-down cards near the dealer composed of discards, i.e., folded hands, burns and discards for drawing purposes. [2] To throw one's cards into the muck, thus folding.
- BIG SLICK - In Texas Hold'em, hole cards of A-K, suited or not.
- CAP - To cap the betting is to make the last permitted raise in a round.
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