Poker Celebrities to Help Raise Funds for Brain Tumor Survivors
The Tug McGraw Foundation, a California-based organization that seeks to improve the live-style of brain tumor survivors, recently announced that it was gathering a team of famous actors and sportsmen to participate in a Texas Hold’ em poker game at the Foundation’s annual event, "An Evening with Tim McGraw & Friends: Honoring Those Who Make a Difference."
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Poker lexicon:
- COMPUTER HAND - Texas Hold'em hole cards of Q-7 offsuit. More generically, any hand that computer analysis/simulation determines is positive but turns out to be difficult to play in practice.
- STRAIGHT FLUSH - A hand consisting of 5 cards in sequence and the same suit.
- FREEZE-OUT - A table-stakes game that continues until a small number of players (possibly only one) has all the money. The major event in The World Series of Poker is a freeze-out game.
- DOYLE BRUNSON - In Hold'em, 10-2 in the hole. So named because Doyle Brunson won two straight WSOPs (q.v.) in 1975 and 1976 with 10-2 on the last hand. (Suited (spades) in 1975, unsuited in 1976).
- PASS - Opposite of bet. To check, if checked to. To fold, if bet to.
- TAP - In no-limit games, to wager all of one's money in one bet.
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