Saturday poker run to help leukemia fundraising
CHESTER - A Saturday fundraiser, dubbed the “Zach Arner Memorial Poker Run” is slated to get underway Saturday. “We will begin at the White Stallion at noon and the last bike will be back at the same location by 5 p.m.,” Jeanne Arner, one of the event organizers, said.
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Poker terminology:
- MITES AND LICE - A hand consisting of two pair, threes over twos.
- DRAWING DEAD - A draw in which it is impossible to obtain a winning hand for any of a variety of reasons: an opponent's hand is better than whatever you are drawing to, the card(s) that make your hand are out of play, or (in Hold'em) give an opponent a stronger hand even if it makes yours. Frequently used in the past tense, since one rarely knows it at the time.
- ASSAULT RIFLE - In Omaha, hole cards that are A-K-4-7 of any suit(s).
- FREEROLL - [1] A poker tournament that does not charge a buy-in fee; players must earn buy-in credits through previous play at the same establishment. [2] Having a lock on part of a pot (sure to win a greater fraction of the pot than one is betting) and playing to win more or all of it.
- FIRE - To make the first bet in a betting round. Used to emphasize that the player bet when a check was possible, showing strength.
- SPREAD LIMIT - A variation on fixed limit wherein the minimum and maximum bets are different. A 1-4-8 game allows bets from 1 to 4 in the early rounds and 1-8 in the last round. A 1-4-8-16 game allows bets from 1 to 4 in the early rounds, 1 to 8 in the next-to-last round, and 1 to 16 in the last round.

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