NY authorities bring down huge gambling ring, arrest poker player
NEW YORK- More than two dozen people, including a professional baseball scout and a high-stakes poker player, were charged Wednesday in connection with a billion-dollar-a-year gambling ring that rivaled…
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Useful poker terms:
- BRODERICK CRAWFORD - In Hold'em, hole cards of 10-4. From the 1950s TV series "Highway Patrol", starring Broderick Crawford.
- 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.
- FOLD - To decline to call a bet, thus dropping out of a hand.
- OVERCALL - To call a bet after one or more players already called.
- RERAISE - To raise after an opponent has raised.
- BAD GAME - Any game in which you figure to be the loser, because the other players are better than you.
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