Stakes high in poker competition
MORE than a dozen poker players from the Redlands will travel to Sydney next weekend after reaching the top 100 in a tournament at the Victoria Point Sharks Sporting Club last Sunday.
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Useful poker terms:
- SHARK - A good/crafty player often posing as a fish early in the game.
- TOKE - Gambling term for "tip", as in "Toke the cocktail waitress". Comes from the term "Token of appreciation".
- PROP - Also PROPOSITION PLAYER. An employee of the gaming establishment whose primary purpose is to keep enough players at a table to prevent breaking up the game for lack of players. Unlike SHILLs "props" make a small hourly wage but play with their own money, winning or losing based on their skill.
- SET - In Hold'em, three of a kind where two of the cards are hole cards.
- SUICIDE KING - King of Hearts. So named because in the drawing the king appears to be stabbing himself in the head.
- JOKER - A 53rd card in the deck, distinct from the others, used as a wild card or as a BUG.
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