Duluth couple advance to national poker tournament
Ken Taylor always kisses his wife good luck before they play in a poker tournament. See you at the final table, he says. Usually this exchange is simply a joke between the two of them maybe a bit of superstition.
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Poker slang:
- TOURNAMENT - A highly structured game involving potentially dozens of tables where all participants pay an entry fee and obtain a fixed number of chips. Once a tournament has started, additional players may not enter. As the game progresses players bust out and are eliminated until only one winner remains.
- HIGH-LOW SPLIT - Forms of poker in which the pot is split between the best hand and best lowball hand.
- STRAIGHT FLUSH - A hand consisting of 5 cards in sequence and the same suit.
- ANTE - A small bet all players are required to make before a hand is dealt. Not all games have an ante. Related terms: BLIND, FORCED BET.
- LOOSE - Playing more hands than the norm. Antonym: TIGHT.
- FOLD - To decline to call a bet, thus dropping out of a hand.
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