Accountant-turned-poker-pro plays to reclaim title
LAS VEGAS — “You’re fired.” Two words made famous by Donald Trump that employees don’t want to hear — unless you’re ex-accountant Tom McEvoy. Thanks to the “biggest career break” of his life, the 1983 World Series of Poker champion is among those living off the game’s soaring popularity.
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Poker slang:
- STRING BET - An unethical and often illegal means of raising whereby a player puts a call-size stack of chips into the pot and, after observing the reactions of the players, then goes back to his stack and puts out more, thus raising.
- AMERICAN AIRLINES - In Hold'em, a pair of Aces in the hole. Better known (at least in rec.gambling) as POCKET ROCKETS.
- BAD GAME - Any game in which you figure to be the loser, because the other players are better than you.
- TIGHT - [1] A style of play that entails playing fewer hands than average. Antonym: LOOSE. [2] A FULL HOUSE.
- READ - To determine whether an opponent has a good, medium or bad hand by observing his personal behavior. An inexact science.
- MILES OF BAD ROAD - Three of a kind. Prefixed with a number, 3*<N>, to indicate 3 <N>s. Thus "24 miles of bad road" is 3 eights, etc. (This obviously doesn't work for face cards.)
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