Bad luck can be card to swallow
POKER is the type of game that can make players feel as though they can literally ‘walk on water’.Occasionally, things are going so well that the cards turn perfectly and even outrageous bets come off, but as in life, just when it looks as though you’re ready to hit the big time, the wheels can come off with a vengeance.Poker, for all of its strategies and playing styles is still a game of chance, which means that foregone conclusions simply do not exist.I watched a game of no limit Texas Hold ‘
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Poker lingo:
- FULL OF - Describes a full house. "Fives full of queens" is 5-5-5-Q-Q.
- READ - To determine whether an opponent has a good, medium or bad hand by observing his personal behavior. An inexact science.
- OPEN-HANDED - A category of games characterized by a part of each player's hand being exposed.
- RUSH - A winning streak. Also "ON A RUSH".
- 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.
- BLACK - When referring to chips, black usually stands for $100 casino chips. "This guy sits down with a stack of blacks and raises the first bet." Not ALL casinos use black for $100 but that is the common usage.
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