Hollywood to Immortalize Amarillo Slim
October 16 - Hollywood heavyweight, Nicolas Cage, is set to produce and star in a movie about the often controversial life of poker legend, Amarillo Slim, which is set for release in 2008.
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Poker dictionary:
- 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.
- CHECK RAISE - To check initially, then raise a bet made later on in the same betting round. Frequently a sign of strength, but may be a bluff.
- FAMILY POT - A pot where all of the players at the table are participating, even after each has had an opportunity to act.
- WIRED [PAIR] - A pair in the hole. In 5-card stud, a door card that pairs the hole card.
- TOURNAMENT - A highly structured game involving potentially dozens of tables where all participants pay an entry fee and obtain a fixed number of chips. Once a tournament has started, additional players may not enter. As the game progresses players bust out and are eliminated until only one winner remains.
- SET - In Hold'em, three of a kind where two of the cards are hole cards.
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