The Buzz | Poker bluffing: The wrong kind of show and tell
Knowin when to hold em ? With the World Series of Poker going on in Las Vegas, pro Kenna James gives us the top five ways to tell a player is bluffing:
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Poker jargon:
- POCKET ROCKETS - In Hold'em, a pair of aces for hole cards.
- DEAD MONEY - Money contributed to the pot by players who have folded.
- OMAHA - A variant of Hold'em where each player receives 4 hole cards and must use exactly two of them (together with 3 of 5 board cards) to make a hand. Often played high-low split with an 8 qualifier for low.
- 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.)
- CAP - To cap the betting is to make the last permitted raise in a round.
- RACE - In tournaments it is sometimes convenient to remove all lower-denomination chips from play, as the remaining players' stacks tend to grow. Small chips are converted to larger chips and any odd chips are "raced off" in the following way: each player with odd chips places them in front of his stack and is dealt one card for each chip. Highest card (rank and suit) takes all the small chips and converts them to higher-denomination chips.
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