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At 24 years old, tournament poker player Michael “The Grinder” Mizrachi has already won more than $5 million, including 10 final tables and seven tournament wins in 2006. The winnings have allowed him to buy a luxury tour bus to travel the country with his wife and son.
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Poker terminology:
- STEAM - Playing wildly, calling and raising a lot, because one is upset. Compare: ON TILT.
- TO GO - The current betting level, as in "$20 to go" meaning every player must contribute $20 (total) or drop. A $10 raise would then make the pot "$30 to go".
- OUT - [1] A card that will improve your hand, often substantially. A hand with many OUTS is preferable to a hand with only 1 or 2. [2] Folded, ineligible to bet or win this hand. "I'm out" is often a synonym for "I fold".
- 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.
- LIMIT POKER - A poker game wherein the amount to be bet is fixed, or at most variable within a prescribed minimum and maximum. Ant.: NO-LIMIT POKER.
- RUNNER-RUNNER - A hand made using both of the last two cards dealt.
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