Golf tournaments team up with poker to put aces on the greens
In a match made in Las Vegas, the World Series of Golf, May 13-16, will combine America’s fascination with poker with its appetite for golf think poker with 5-irons and wedges in a made-for-TV event to be shown June 23-24 on NBC.
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Poker dictionary:
- OPEN-HANDED - A category of games characterized by a part of each player's hand being exposed.
- HOYLE - Edmund Hoyle (1769-?) was the authoritative source for rules of card games. Hoyle is to card rules as Webster is to word definitions.
- BUTTON CHARGE - A periodic fee paid by whoever is the button, perhaps every 20 minutes or 30 minutes. Constitutes part or all of the HOUSE CUT.
- OVERPAIR - In Hold'em, a pair in the hole that is larger than any community card on the board.
- FULL OF - Describes a full house. "Fives full of queens" is 5-5-5-Q-Q.
- STUCK - Down a nontrivial amount of money, as in "he's stuck $800".
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