Women Form Under 3% of Day One Action
They used to say that poker was a man’s game, but that old saw has long been discarded. The poker of today is not the poker of the Wild West, when it was okay for a man to gamble, but “unseemly” for a woman. Today some of the top players in the world are women, and there are organizations and special events that showcase the powers of these female poker players…
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Poker talk:
- STACKED [DECK] - A deck that has been arranged to give one player a huge advantage. Also: RIGGED.
- GOOD GAME - A game with players worse than you so that you can expect to win a lot of money.
- STUCK - Down a nontrivial amount of money, as in "he's stuck $800".
- HOLE CARDS - In Stud and Hold'em, the face-down cards dealt to each player.
- DEAD MAN'S HAND - Generically: two pair, aces and eights. Specifically: the black aces, black eights and nine of diamonds. The hand Wild Bill Hickok was holding when he was shot to death.
- CRYING CALL - A call made with little chance of ultimately winning, but marginally better than an immediate fold.
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