Chuck Blount on poker: High-stakes hands don’t always follow the script
The game of poker brings a lot of things to the table, but one thing it never promises is that the cards will come out fair and true.
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Poker terminology:
- OVERPAIR - In Hold'em, a pair in the hole that is larger than any community card on the board.
- FOLD - To decline to call a bet, thus dropping out of a hand.
- TOURNAMENT - A highly structured game involving potentially dozens of tables where all participants pay an entry fee and obtain a fixed number of chips. Once a tournament has started, additional players may not enter. As the game progresses players bust out and are eliminated until only one winner remains.
- STRING BET - An unethical and often illegal means of raising whereby a player puts a call-size stack of chips into the pot and, after observing the reactions of the players, then goes back to his stack and puts out more, thus raising.
- BET - To put money into the pot, pursuant to the rules of the game, thus maintaining a chance of winning the pot.
- BEE No. 92 (TM) - Trade name for the "diamond back" cards frequently used in casino games. Compare: RIDER BACK.
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