Poker Pinball Coming To Arcades
World Poker Tour players always have to avoid going on tilt, where they let emotion interfere with smart poker play. Now pinball enthusiasts will have to avoid tilt, too, with the new World Poker Tour pinball machines that will be appearing in arcades. Pinball players have to avoid tilt in order to keep the game from shutting off, which if they are poker fans they certainly would want to avoid.
Stern Pinball has made a deal with the World Poker Tour to brand some of their machines with Mike Sexton, Vince Van Patton and Courtney Friel providing their images and voiceovers, and successful play involves getting flop, turn and river cards through expert ball manipulation…
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Useful poker terms:
- SMALL BLIND - In games with two blinds the first blind is the SMALL BLIND because it is usually one-half (or less) the second or large blind.
- COLD CALL - Calling both a bet and raise at the same time, as opposed to calling a bet then later calling a raise made after the call.
- LITTLE SLICK - In Hold'em, hole cards of A-2, suited or not.
- BICYCLE - The best possible low hand: A-2-3-4-5. More common term: WHEEL.
- RAISE - To wager more than the minimum required to call, forcing other players to put in more money as well.
- DOYLE BRUNSON - In Hold'em, 10-2 in the hole. So named because Doyle Brunson won two straight WSOPs (q.v.) in 1975 and 1976 with 10-2 on the last hand. (Suited (spades) in 1975, unsuited in 1976).

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