Bars use poker tournaments to draw crowds
By Christopher Ortiz
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Useful poker information:
- FAMILY POT - A pot where all of the players at the table are participating, even after each has had an opportunity to act.
- ROYAL FLUSH - An ace-high straight flush, the best possible hand in regular poker.
- SHORT-STACKED - Playing with a only a small amount of money, thus limiting one's risk and reward.
- OMAHA - A variant of Hold'em where each player receives 4 hole cards and must use exactly two of them (together with 3 of 5 board cards) to make a hand. Often played high-low split with an 8 qualifier for low.
- 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.
- RIVER - The last card dealt in a hand of stud or Hold'em.
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