Harvard Law Profs Back Poker As Educational Tool

(Full text of a statement. Contact details follow below.) Harvard Law Profs Backing Poker As Educational Tool In Schools, Universities SINGAPORE, Aug. 15 /PRNewswire-AsiaNet/ — Harvard Law School professor Charles Nesson will announce an international effort to organize “poker strategic thinking societies” at universities and secondary schools around the world that will use poker as an …

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• 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.
• TIGHT - [1] A style of play that entails playing fewer hands than average. Antonym: LOOSE. [2] A FULL HOUSE.
• 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.
• TRIPS - Three of a kind. In Hold'em the term SET is used when two of the three cards are hole cards.
• 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.
• FREEROLL - [1] A poker tournament that does not charge a buy-in fee; players must earn buy-in credits through previous play at the same establishment. [2] Having a lock on part of a pot (sure to win a greater fraction of the pot than one is betting) and playing to win more or all of it.