“No Limit” and “Limit” Poker Are Two Different Animals
Each year, I pretty much split my card-playing time between poker and blackjack. You may not think so, but considerable insight for one game can rub off on you while playing the other.
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Poker talk:
- HOLE CARDS - In Stud and Hold'em, the face-down cards dealt to each player.
- OFFSUIT - Not of the same suit. "I held A-Q offsuit" or "The flop was 10-6-2 offsuit". When speaking of 5 or more cards, not all/ of the same suit, i.e., no flush, as in "button had A-K-10-8-7 offsuit."
- STEAM - Playing wildly, calling and raising a lot, because one is upset. Compare: ON TILT.
- FOLD - To decline to call a bet, thus dropping out of a hand.
- DEAD MAN'S HAND - Generically: two pair, aces and eights. Specifically: the black aces, black eights and nine of diamonds. The hand Wild Bill Hickok was holding when he was shot to death.
- 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.
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