River Club looks to push poker into the mainstream

INDIANAPOLIS The Texas Hold Em poker revolution that has spread like wildfire across the United States over the past few years. When Internet amateur Chris Moneymaker won the 2003 World Series of Poker, toppling the greatest names in the game, Hold Em exploded onto the scene although it can be traced back to the early 1900s.Three years later, the entire landscape has changed. Poker can be found on TV every night and coverage will be amped up considerably when the Poker Channel soon goes

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Poker jargon:

FOLD - To decline to call a bet, thus dropping out of a hand.
NUT / NUTS - The best possible hand of a given class. Not a LOCK unless all cards have been dealt. The "nut flush" is the highest possible flush, but might still lose to, e.g., a full house. Usually used in Hold'em games.
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.
BELLY BUSTER - An inside straight draw. Same as GUTSHOT.
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.
CUT - To break the deck into 2 stacks of at least 5 cards each. Usually performed by the player to the dealer's right to insure that the the deck is not stacked.

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