Jeff Haney on how professional poker player Outhred found out the real money is on television game shows
One night this spring, Greg Raymer saw Alex Outhred, a fellow professional poker player, on TV playing for high stakes in a competitive event requiring brainpower and strategic decision-making.
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Poker lexicon:
- RING GAME - A standard game where players can come and go as they choose. The opposite of TOURNAMENT.
- OVERPAIR - In Hold'em, a pair in the hole that is larger than any community card on the board.
- BUTTON - A distinctive token held by the player sitting in the theoretical dealer's position, when a house dealer is used. The button rotates around the table so that every player has an opportunity to be the last to act. Also, "THE BUTTON" can refer to the player who currently has the button. ("I was the button and called the blind".) Synonyms: BUCK, PUCK.
- RERAISE - To raise after an opponent has raised.
- STUCK - Down a nontrivial amount of money, as in "he's stuck $800".
- TABLE STAKES - A standard rule whereby during a hand players can only bet the money they have on the table. If the bet to a player is more than the player's stack, that player may call with all his chips and be eligible to win only that portion of the pot he contributed to equally. A side pot is created, for which only the remaining players may compete.
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