The Poker Counselor’s Corner
This weekly column gives poker players advice on the psychological issues that can affect them at the poker table, or away from it…
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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.
- FISH - A player who loses money. An old saying is "If you can't spot the fish at the table, *you* are the fish.".
- STEAM - Playing wildly, calling and raising a lot, because one is upset. Compare: ON TILT.
- LOWBALL - Generic term for poker where the lowest hand wins.
- SIDE POT - When an active player runs out of money during the course of a hand, the remaining players participate in a second or SIDE POT for the rest of the hand. Additional side pots are possible if several players run out of money at different points in a hand.
- NICKEL - Five dollars, usually represented by a red casino check.
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