Poker Legend Puggy Pearson Passes Away
He was one of the grand old timers of poker, from before they’re never wise to World Series of Poker. In fact, if it wasn’t for consummate gambler Puggy Pearson, there likely wouldn’t even be a World Series of Poker. A pal of the WSOP founder, it was Pearson, after a marathon game of poker, who came up with the idea for a tournament and coined the term used today, “freeze out.” Mr…
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Poker lexicon:
- TELL - Any personal mannerisms that reveal the quality of one's hand. E.g., constantly looking at one's hole cards is often a tell of a poor hand. (Some players, knowing this, will at times check their hole cards when they have a great hand and don't need to look.)
- HOLE CARDS - In Stud and Hold'em, the face-down cards dealt to each player.
- RAINBOW - In flop games, a flop in which no two cards are of the same suit. "The flop was A 9 7 rainbow."
- OFFSUIT - Not of the same suit. "I held A-Q offsuit" or "The flop was 10-6-2 offsuit". When speaking of 5 or more cards, not all/ of the same suit, i.e., no flush, as in "button had A-K-10-8-7 offsuit."
- FREE CARD - A card dealt after all players checked in a betting round.
- RACE - In tournaments it is sometimes convenient to remove all lower-denomination chips from play, as the remaining players' stacks tend to grow. Small chips are converted to larger chips and any odd chips are "raced off" in the following way: each player with odd chips places them in front of his stack and is dealt one card for each chip. Highest card (rank and suit) takes all the small chips and converts them to higher-denomination chips.
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