Poker Pro Faces Deportation
The US Government has a program called Operation Predator that seeks to deport foreign born nationals that have a criminal sex offender record, and poker pro Shawn Sheikhan falls into that descriptive bucket. Sean served nine months and had five years of probation when, in his early 20’s, he was convicted of a misdemeanor sexual battery offense against a 17 year old girl. Now 38, the father and husband (married to an American born woman) faces deportation back to his native country of Iran, which he left when he came to America at the age of nine.
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Poker talk:
- FLOP GAME - Any of a number of poker games where a flop is dealt.
- LATE BLIND - In addition to "regular" blinds, some games allow a player (particularly a new one) to post a blind bet in return for the right to enter the game immediately and act last on the first betting round. The amount of the blind is determined by house rules, usually somewhere between the last blind and double the last blind. It is frequently a LIVE BLIND.
- MUCK - [1] A collection of face-down cards near the dealer composed of discards, i.e., folded hands, burns and discards for drawing purposes. [2] To throw one's cards into the muck, thus folding.
- OPEN - Make the first bet in a hand, especially in draw poker.
- SPREAD LIMIT - A variation on fixed limit wherein the minimum and maximum bets are different. A 1-4-8 game allows bets from 1 to 4 in the early rounds and 1-8 in the last round. A 1-4-8-16 game allows bets from 1 to 4 in the early rounds, 1 to 8 in the next-to-last round, and 1 to 16 in the last round.
- STUD - Any of several poker games in which some of each players' cards are exposed.
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