‘Bad Dad!’: A Stand-Up Guy; ‘Poker’ Plays Its Cards Right
The funky Warehouse Arts complex is Grand Central Station for the Capital Fringe Festival, but it probably won’t be around this time next year. Thanks to rising property values downtown and a tax increase that can’t be met by hosting offbeat music and theater acts, the storefront performance spaces…
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Poker talk:
- NICKEL - Five dollars, usually represented by a red casino check.
- FLOORMAN - The casino representative in charge of the card room or a section of a card room. Arbitrates disputes when unusual events happen.
- DRAW OUT - To catch a card that improves your situation from a losing hand to a winning hand, especially when you beat someone holding a hand that usually figures to win.
- BAD-BEAT JACKPOT - In some cardrooms, a prize that is shared by the players in a game, when a very good hand (usually Aces full, or better) is beaten by a higher hand. Jackpots are usually financed by taking a drop ($1 is a common amount) from every pot. A typical division of the jackpot will give the losing hand 50 %, the winning hand 25 %, and the other players at the table share the remaining 25 % of the Jackpot.
- LIVE ONE - The best kind of opponent, a poor player with a lot of money to lose and in a hurry to lose it.
- REPRESENT - Implying, by one's betting style, that one has a particular hand.
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