Bay Area gets dealt a hand in poker craze
The cards don’t lie — poker has a hold on America. And for a week San Jose was 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 fabric of American the 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
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Poker glossary:
- HOYLE - Edmund Hoyle (1769-?) was the authoritative source for rules of card games. Hoyle is to card rules as Webster is to word definitions.
- READ - To determine whether an opponent has a good, medium or bad hand by observing his personal behavior. An inexact science.
- LOOSE - Playing more hands than the norm. Antonym: TIGHT.
- SET - In Hold'em, three of a kind where two of the cards are hole cards.
- FLUSH - A poker hand consisting of five cards all one suit.
- FIRE - To make the first bet in a betting round. Used to emphasize that the player bet when a check was possible, showing strength.
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