Friday poker club plays out hand
For more than 30 years, a group of city men met for cards and fellowship, but now only two remain Forty-nine rare poker hands hang from the walls of Buzz Chalk’s North Baltimore basement. Each is framed and sealed under glass, splayed against white mats inscribed with names of the living and the dead.
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Poker lexicon:
- FOLD - To decline to call a bet, thus dropping out of a hand.
- RIDER BACK (TM) - A brand of playing cards that feature a bicycle rider on the back of the cards. Often used in home games. Compare: BEE No. 92.
- TOP PAIR - In flop games, having a hole card that matches the highest card on the board.
- SIXTH STREET - The sixth card dealt in 7-card stud.
- RING GAME - A standard game where players can come and go as they choose. The opposite of TOURNAMENT.
- BEE No. 92 (TM) - Trade name for the "diamond back" cards frequently used in casino games. Compare: RIDER BACK.
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