Casino City Poker Player of the Year
The biggest year in poker history introduced us to several new exciting faces, while many of poker’s longtime-elite players staged a revival of sorts. No one person dominated poker in 2006, ensuring a lively debate as to which players belong in the coveted top-ten.
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Poker slang:
- POCKET PAIR - Generic Hold'em term for 2 hole cards of the same rank.
- TRIPS - Three of a kind. In Hold'em the term SET is used when two of the three cards are hole cards.
- 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.
- HOYLE - Edmund Hoyle (1769-?) was the authoritative source for rules of card games. Hoyle is to card rules as Webster is to word definitions.
- FISH - A player who loses money. An old saying is "If you can't spot the fish at the table, *you* are the fish.".
- RIVER - The last card dealt in a hand of stud or Hold'em.
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