Playing Poker to Help a Local Boy
Its a game that is usually played solely for personal profit, but Sunday, people participated to help a local boy. A Texas Hold Em Tournament was held Sunday afternoon for Justin Waugh, a Crooksvi…
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Poker dictionary:
- MILES OF BAD ROAD - Three of a kind. Prefixed with a number, 3*<N>, to indicate 3 <N>s. Thus "24 miles of bad road" is 3 eights, etc. (This obviously doesn't work for face cards.)
- TRIP - Three of a specific kind, as in "Trip sixes".
- BAD GAME - Any game in which you figure to be the loser, because the other players are better than you.
- 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.
- OFFSUIT - Not of the same suit. "I held A-Q offsuit" or "The flop was 10-6-2 offsuit". When speaking of 5 or more cards, not all/ of the same suit, i.e., no flush, as in "button had A-K-10-8-7 offsuit."
- RAIL - A barrier dividing the card playing area from a public area.
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