Poker the Game of Choice for 10-Year-Old Chinese University Prodigy
The more than billion-strong nation of China is home to a huge poker fan in the form of pint-sized Zhang Xinyang. The 10-year-old student at Tianjin University of Technology and Education likes to play poker in his off time. Rather than play with kids his own age, the Doogie Howser-in-the-works chooses to shuffle up and deal with his "peers," some of whom are approaching their twenties.
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Poker lingo:
- RING GAME - A standard game where players can come and go as they choose. The opposite of TOURNAMENT.
- STRING BET - An unethical and often illegal means of raising whereby a player puts a call-size stack of chips into the pot and, after observing the reactions of the players, then goes back to his stack and puts out more, thus raising.
- UNDER THE GUN - The position that has to act first in a round of betting.
- POSITION - One's location in the betting sequence, relative to the players still in the hand. First position is first to act.
- STEAM - Playing wildly, calling and raising a lot, because one is upset. Compare: ON TILT.
- LAY ODDS - To give favorable odds to an opponent.
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