Poker Play Brings Gambling to Theater
Playing through the 2nd week in April is a play that brings the chancier elements of poker and gamely addiction to the board’s with a script titled Dealer’s Choice. Directed by Paul Tei, the play boasts only six actors who offer a drama centering around the themes of dreaming, risking, and the destructive forces of lying to yourself.
Set in a restaurant in the outskirts of London, and overnight poker game provides the atmosphere for the characters to explore family ties, friendship, in the dreams of becoming a professional poker player. With poker movies beginning filming soon, and poker TV shows still birthing practically every month, the addition of a play based on poker is a welcome break from the ordinary….
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Useful poker information:
- PROP - Also PROPOSITION PLAYER. An employee of the gaming establishment whose primary purpose is to keep enough players at a table to prevent breaking up the game for lack of players. Unlike SHILLs "props" make a small hourly wage but play with their own money, winning or losing based on their skill.
- 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".
- CALLER - One who calls. Sometimes used collectively, as in "3 callers".
- POCKET ROCKETS - In Hold'em, a pair of aces for hole cards.
- GOOD GAME - A game with players worse than you so that you can expect to win a lot of money.
- FAVORITE - Before all the cards are dealt, a hand that figures to be the winner. Ant: UNDERDOG.

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