State puts hold ‘em on poker
DAYTON - Ohio Attorney General Jim Petro went to court Wednesday to shut down a Riverside firm that has organized dozens of charity poker tournaments drawing thousands of players in the Dayton and Columbus areas.Petro’s office filed a lawsuit in Montgomery County Common Pleas Court to stop Reece’s Las Vegas Supplies from conducting more “Texas Hold’em” poker tournaments and to recover hundreds of thousands of dollars that the attorney general accuses Reece’s owners of skimming from charities ove
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Poker lexicon:
- RIDER BACK (TM) - A brand of playing cards that feature a bicycle rider on the back of the cards. Often used in home games. Compare: BEE No. 92.
- 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.
- THIRD STREET - In Stud, the third card dealt to each player.
- OUT - [1] A card that will improve your hand, often substantially. A hand with many OUTS is preferable to a hand with only 1 or 2. [2] Folded, ineligible to bet or win this hand. "I'm out" is often a synonym for "I fold".
- SMALL BLIND - In games with two blinds the first blind is the SMALL BLIND because it is usually one-half (or less) the second or large blind.
- FREE CARD - A card dealt after all players checked in a betting round.
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