DATELINE JERUSALEM: Fuzzy Rules, Rising Stakes In Middle East Poker Game
Forget about chess, with its ordered rules, as a simulation for war. Israel’s current crisis in Lebanon and Gaza shows that the closest model is poker a high-stakes version with no limits on bets and no certainty even about who is sitting at the table.
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Useful poker information:
- GUT SHOT - A draw to an inside straight, as in 2-3-4-6.
- POSSIBLE [STRAIGHT/FLUSH] - Up cards that quite possibly could lead to a straight and/or a flush.
- PAY OFF - Calling a bet with little expectation of winning, unless the opponent is bluffing.
- STAND OFF - To call a raise. "Opener raises, I stand off".
- FILL - To draw a card that makes a five-card hand (straight, flush, full house, straight flush).
- OVERPAIR - In Hold'em, a pair in the hole that is larger than any community card on the board.
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