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If your poker face generally involves looking glum as someone takes away your life savings in a wheelbarrow, you need the Briefing Room’s Texas hold ‘em survival guide.
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Poker terminology:
- SUICIDE KING - King of Hearts. So named because in the drawing the king appears to be stabbing himself in the head.
- FOLD - To decline to call a bet, thus dropping out of a hand.
- DEALER'S CHOICE - In home games, a rule that permits the dealer to name which poker game to be played that hand. Often limited to selecting from a list provided.
- FAVORITE - Before all the cards are dealt, a hand that figures to be the winner. Ant: UNDERDOG.
- COMPUTER HAND - Texas Hold'em hole cards of Q-7 offsuit. More generically, any hand that computer analysis/simulation determines is positive but turns out to be difficult to play in practice.
- REPRESENT - Implying, by one's betting style, that one has a particular hand.
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