Texas Holdem Game Raided In Clinton Township
Thursday, February 9, 2006, the Imperial House banquet center was raided by police. The center, located in Clinton Township, was supposed to be the location of an illegal no-limit Texas Holdem game, according to the tip off received by the police. When police arrived they indeed caught the game in action, with the force led by Clinton Township Police Captain Fred Posavetz stopping play and seizing poker chips, playing cards, nearly $50,000 in cash from the nearly 100 players.
A seating chart, cash bar and even a big prize for the eventual winner all pointed to a well organized event…
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Poker glossary:
- FREE CARD - A card dealt after all players checked in a betting round.
- FREEROLL - [1] A poker tournament that does not charge a buy-in fee; players must earn buy-in credits through previous play at the same establishment. [2] Having a lock on part of a pot (sure to win a greater fraction of the pot than one is betting) and playing to win more or all of it.
- 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.
- KICKER TROUBLE - Not having as high a kicker as an opponent.
- QUALIFIER - A minimum standard that a hand must meet in order to win. Usually applied to the lowball side of a high-low split pot.
- COMPUTER HAND - Texas Hold'em hole cards of Q-7 offsuit. More generically, any hand that computer analysis/simulation determines is positive but turns out to be difficult to play in practice.
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