School budgets to poker player highlighted the year
From budget disputes to tearful goodbyes, 2006 saw it all. Two longtime educators stepped down. But two others were ushered in. Here’s a look at happened in education in the past year.
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Poker jargon:
- HOYLE - Edmund Hoyle (1769-?) was the authoritative source for rules of card games. Hoyle is to card rules as Webster is to word definitions.
- 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.
- NICKEL - Five dollars, usually represented by a red casino check.
- SHILL - A card room employee who plays with House money, and does not share in any of his (her) winnings or losses. Shills are used to facilitate starting games, and keeping them going. Compare: PROP.
- POT LIMIT - A game where the maximum bet is determined by the size of the pot at the time. Note that a player wanting to raise first calls the bet, then totals the pot to determine the maximum amount he can raise.
- SPLIT [THE POT] - To split the pot between two or more players. Related term: QUARTER.
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