Poker’s best come to San Jose for tournament
The cards don’t lie — poker has a hold on America. And this week San Jose is at the center of the poker universe.With an estimated 60 million poker players in the United States, the game has gone from being a fad to part of the fabric of American culture.Top players such as Phil Hellmuth of Palo Alto and Daniel Negreanu have moved out of the shadows and are now identifiable celebrities battling animated cans of Diet Pepsi in TV commercials. Big-box stores such as Bed Bath & Beyond and Target ar
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Poker terminology:
- FLOP - [1] In Hold'em, the first three community cards, dealt simultaneously. [2] To deal a flop, or to make a hand on a flop. "I flopped trips".
- BIG SLICK - In Texas Hold'em, hole cards of A-K, suited or not.
- DRAW OUT - To catch a card that improves your situation from a losing hand to a winning hand, especially when you beat someone holding a hand that usually figures to win.
- BOARD - The exposed cards in Hold'em and stud. Also BOARD CARDS.
- S&M - Sklansky & Malmuth. Generally refers to the ideas and algorithms published by these two authors. When used in a 7-card stud context, often refers to "7 Card Stud For Advanced Players", and when used in a Hold'em context, often refers to "Texas Hold'em For Advanced Players".
- RACE - In tournaments it is sometimes convenient to remove all lower-denomination chips from play, as the remaining players' stacks tend to grow. Small chips are converted to larger chips and any odd chips are "raced off" in the following way: each player with odd chips places them in front of his stack and is dealt one card for each chip. Highest card (rank and suit) takes all the small chips and converts them to higher-denomination chips.
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