Kid Poker Column Reaches 50 Papers
It seems that “Kid Poker” Daniel Negreanu has a bit of the Midas Touch. The young Canadian pro poker player has made a name for himself for his uncanny ability to read other poker players, and has managed to parley that skill into not only millions of dollars in poker winnings, but a number of lucrative poker related gigs as well. The poker ambassador for the Wynn Casino in Las Vegas, Daniel also runs FullContactPoker.com, his personal site, and recently saw the launch of a hotly anticipated poker video game, Stacked…
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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.
- LAY ODDS - To give favorable odds to an opponent.
- BEE No. 92 (TM) - Trade name for the "diamond back" cards frequently used in casino games. Compare: RIDER BACK.
- CASE - The fourth card of a particular rank, as in "he folded the case 9" when describing where all the 9s were in a hand. Comes from the game of Faro where an employee of the house, called the "case keeper". kept track of the number of each rank of card remaining.
- DRAW - [1] A class of poker games characterized by players being dealt 5 cards face-down and later having the opportunity to replace some of the original 5. "Draw poker" and "Five-card draw" are examples of usage. [2] In stud and Hold'em games, the set of cards that will be dealt later can be collectively called "the draw". [3] To discard some number of cards and have dealt an equal number of replacements.
- 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."
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