World Poker Tour Heads To The Arcade

Poker isn’t the only game where tilting is a bad thing. Pinball machines also have a penalty when you go on tilt, killing your game in mid-play….

WHEEL - A-2-3-4-5. Usually discussed in the context of lowball where it is the best possible hand. Can also refer to a 5-high straight in high games. Also: BICYCLE.
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."
LIMIT POKER - A poker game wherein the amount to be bet is fixed, or at most variable within a prescribed minimum and maximum. Ant.: NO-LIMIT POKER.
THIRD STREET - In Stud, the third card dealt to each player.
READ - To determine whether an opponent has a good, medium or bad hand by observing his personal behavior. An inexact science.
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.

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