Keeping cool secret to poker
I recently played in the $10,000 buy-in main event at the World Series of Poker, and the key reason I was eliminated was because I did something I haven’t done in a poker tournament in a very long time: I cracked under the pressure.
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Poker slang:
- BURN - To discard the top card of the deck prior to dealing, usually done for every dealing round except the first. The theory being that if somehow the cards are marked (illegally) no one will know what card will next be dealt, only what card will be burned. This makes marked cards less of an advantage, hence tends to reduce cheating.
- LEAK - To show one's hole cards (often unknowingly).
- NO-LIMIT POKER - A game where there is no maximum bet; a player can wager any amount (perhaps above some minimum) up to whatever money is on the table in front of him.
- OPEN-HANDED - A category of games characterized by a part of each player's hand being exposed.
- SHILL - A card room employee who plays with House money, and does not share in any of his (her) winnings or losses. Shills are used to facilitate starting games, and keeping them going. Compare: PROP.
- RIVER - The last card dealt in a hand of stud or Hold'em.
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