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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Poker lingo:
- BOARD - The exposed cards in Hold'em and stud. Also BOARD CARDS.
- SUICIDE KING - King of Hearts. So named because in the drawing the king appears to be stabbing himself in the head.
- OPEN-HANDED - A category of games characterized by a part of each player's hand being exposed.
- HOLE CARDS - In Stud and Hold'em, the face-down cards dealt to each player.
- TOKE - Gambling term for "tip", as in "Toke the cocktail waitress". Comes from the term "Token of appreciation".
- PAY STATION - A player who rarely folds, thus who frequently calls better hands and loses. Almost as much fun as a LIVE ONE.
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