‘High Heels’ tour offers poker to women without men at table

Two cards were dealt face-down to each player, as usual. Then, as is also customary, three cards up — called the “flop” — then a fourth, “the turn,” and a fifth, “the river.” But this Texas Hold ‘em poker tournament Saturday was missing another routine component: men.

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Mon, October 22nd, 2007

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  • ON TILT - Playing worse (usually, more aggressively) than usual because a player has become emotionally upset.
  • PROP - Also PROPOSITION PLAYER. An employee of the gaming establishment whose primary purpose is to keep enough players at a table to prevent breaking up the game for lack of players. Unlike SHILLs "props" make a small hourly wage but play with their own money, winning or losing based on their skill.
  • HIGH-LOW SPLIT - Forms of poker in which the pot is split between the best hand and best lowball hand.
  • DECLARE - In high/low games, declaring one's hand as high or low or both ways (usually done with chips in hand). Usually played in home games; casinos tend to play CARDS SPEAK.
  • FILL - To draw a card that makes a five-card hand (straight, flush, full house, straight flush).
  • LATE POSITION - For a particular betting round, a player who does not have to act until most of the other players have acted.
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