Couch potato contest looks easy — til you’re watching poker all night
Jason Pisarik and Noah Manly were trying to take an interest in a replay of the deciding game of the 1993 NBA playoffs between the Bulls and the Phoenix Suns when I met them Tuesday afternoon, well into their second day of nonstop sports television viewing.
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Poker lexicon:
- BRODERICK CRAWFORD - In Hold'em, hole cards of 10-4. From the 1950s TV series "Highway Patrol", starring Broderick Crawford.
- TAPPED [OUT] - Out of money. Can refer to a player running out of money in the course of a hand, thus still active for the main pot; or can refer to a player who has lost his bankroll and can no longer play.
- ASSAULT RIFLE - In Omaha, hole cards that are A-K-4-7 of any suit(s).
- HOYLE - Edmund Hoyle (1769-?) was the authoritative source for rules of card games. Hoyle is to card rules as Webster is to word definitions.
- FOLD - To decline to call a bet, thus dropping out of a hand.
- RERAISE - To raise after an opponent has raised.
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