BEST BET: Try your luck at poker
Nov 28, 2006 Are you feeling lucky tonight? Poker lucky, that is. Get out of your friend’s basement and try your hand at a real tournament of Texas Hold’em. Watering holes with games around the area include Market Street Saloon, The Hop and Cobblestone’s Restaurant and Sports Emporium.Save
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Poker jargon:
- SHORT-STACKED - Playing with a only a small amount of money, thus limiting one's risk and reward.
- LOOSE - Playing more hands than the norm. Antonym: TIGHT.
- RAISE - To wager more than the minimum required to call, forcing other players to put in more money as well.
- STACKED [DECK] - A deck that has been arranged to give one player a huge advantage. Also: RIGGED.
- RAGS - Board cards that are small, not suited and not in sequence, e.g., 9-5-2. When "rags flop", it is unlikely that anyone has a good hand, except possibly the big blind in an unraised pot.
- DECLARE - In high/low games, declaring one's hand as high or low or both ways (usually done with chips in hand). Usually played in home games; casinos tend to play CARDS SPEAK.
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