Poker winnings to help toward Darfur, Parkinsons Disease, Katrina
LAS VEGAS (AP) The tactics may be cutthroat but the results can be downright sweet. An increasing number of poker players are donating portions of their winnings to good causes.
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Poker talk:
- PAT HAND - In draw poker, a hand that does not need any more cards. Specifically, a straight, flush, full house or straight flush. One might bluff and represent a pat hand but actually hold something else.
- DEALER'S CHOICE - In home games, a rule that permits the dealer to name which poker game to be played that hand. Often limited to selecting from a list provided.
- PASS - Opposite of bet. To check, if checked to. To fold, if bet to.
- COMMUNITY CARDS - Cards that are available for every player to use in making a hand. Usually dealt face up somewhere in the middle of the table.
- HIT - To make a hand or catch a card or cards that improves one's hand. "I hit a gut-shot draw on the river."
- HOYLE - Edmund Hoyle (1769-?) was the authoritative source for rules of card games. Hoyle is to card rules as Webster is to word definitions.
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