Poker Parent Nips Gambling Fears in the Bud
Christopher Ackerman started playing poker for baseball cards at eleven years old. By the time he was 18, Texas Hold’em was his game, and in college he found himself continuously playing online poker.
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Poker dictionary:
- POSITION - One's location in the betting sequence, relative to the players still in the hand. First position is first to act.
- FOLD - To decline to call a bet, thus dropping out of a hand.
- FILL - To draw a card that makes a five-card hand (straight, flush, full house, straight flush).
- COMMUNITY CARDS - Cards that are available for every player to use in making a hand. Usually dealt face up somewhere in the middle of the table.
- 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.
- HIGH-LOW SPLIT - Forms of poker in which the pot is split between the best hand and best lowball hand.
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