ON POKER: Sometimes calling is a player’s best option
It drives me batty when I watch poker on television and hear commentators say things like, “Well, this looks like a raise-or-fold situation. He certainly can’t call.” I disagree with their assessment a good eight out of 10 times.
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Poker dictionary:
- GOOD GAME - A game with players worse than you so that you can expect to win a lot of money.
- BURN - To discard the top card of the deck prior to dealing, usually done for every dealing round except the first. The theory being that if somehow the cards are marked (illegally) no one will know what card will next be dealt, only what card will be burned. This makes marked cards less of an advantage, hence tends to reduce cheating.
- FLOP - [1] In Hold'em, the first three community cards, dealt simultaneously. [2] To deal a flop, or to make a hand on a flop. "I flopped trips".
- SIXTH STREET - The sixth card dealt in 7-card stud.
- RAKE - Money taken from each pot and given to the house in return for hosting the game. Usually a percentage of the pot (5%-10%) up to some maximum amount.
- EXPECTATION - The long-run [dis-]advantage of a given situation, specifically without reference to any particular outcome. I.e., what you figure to win [lose] on average after a large number of repetitions of the same situation.
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