Snowmobile Poker Runs: the next new sport at the Winter Olympics?
What’s so special about 180 or so poker fans taking part in a poker run? Well, if they do it on snowmobiles, it makes for quite an interesting story. Residents of Plumas county, in northern California, made the most of a recent winter storm and saddled up their snowmobiles to participate in a frosty poker run. The idea was the same, though - snowmobilers had to collect poker cards at predetermined stops along a 50-mile route, with the person holding the best hand at the end of the run winning a $250 top prize.
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Poker lexicon:
- OPEN-ENDED STRAIGHT - Four cards to a straight which can be completed by drawing a card at either end. E.g., 6-7-8-9 is an open-ended straight. Also: BOBTAIL STRAIGHT. Compare: INSIDE STRAIGHT.
- QUARTER - [1] Twenty-five dollars, often symbolized by a green casino chip. [2] To divide half a pot between two tying hands. In split pot games, a player who "ties" another player for their half of the pot is said to be "quartered". One might say "I didn't bet my A-2 because I figured I'd get quartered".
- FOLD - To decline to call a bet, thus dropping out of a hand.
- STAND OFF - To call a raise. "Opener raises, I stand off".
- ASSAULT RIFLE - In Omaha, hole cards that are A-K-4-7 of any suit(s).
- TABLE STAKES - A standard rule whereby during a hand players can only bet the money they have on the table. If the bet to a player is more than the player's stack, that player may call with all his chips and be eligible to win only that portion of the pot he contributed to equally. A side pot is created, for which only the remaining players may compete.
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