Top Poker Players to be Recognized at Hollywood Awards Night
Poker is going Hollywood! Every year, the best actors and actresses gather in Hollywood for awards shows where they are recognized for their on-screen talents. Now, poker players have an awards platform of their own. For the first time in history, poker’s best will be publicly lauded for their achievements around the felt in Card Player’s Player of the Year Awards Gala.
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Useful poker terms:
- BET - To put money into the pot, pursuant to the rules of the game, thus maintaining a chance of winning the pot.
- EDGE - An advantage over an opponent, either specific or subjective.
- TRIPS - Three of a kind. In Hold'em the term SET is used when two of the three cards are hole cards.
- DECLARE - In high/low games, declaring one's hand as high or low or both ways (usually done with chips in hand). Usually played in home games; casinos tend to play CARDS SPEAK.
- NUT / NUTS - The best possible hand of a given class. Not a LOCK unless all cards have been dealt. The "nut flush" is the highest possible flush, but might still lose to, e.g., a full house. Usually used in Hold'em games.
- TOKE - Gambling term for "tip", as in "Toke the cocktail waitress". Comes from the term "Token of appreciation".
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