ReView by Phil Villarreal : ‘Rounders’ aces the suspense, thrills of poker
Sometime in the last decade, poker crept out of Elks lodges and barracks and onto ESPN.
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Poker argot:
- FILL - To draw a card that makes a five-card hand (straight, flush, full house, straight flush).
- FOUR OF A KIND - A hand containing all four cards of the same rank.
- SHOWDOWN - The point at the end of the hand where all active players reveal their cards and the pot is awarded to the winner(s).
- DEAD MAN'S HAND - Generically: two pair, aces and eights. Specifically: the black aces, black eights and nine of diamonds. The hand Wild Bill Hickok was holding when he was shot to death.
- 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.
- PASS - Opposite of bet. To check, if checked to. To fold, if bet to.
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