Poker Tournament Hopes to Make a Child Smile
The charity organization called Make a Child Smile will soon benefit from people busting out, going all in, flopping the nuts and sucking out with an ace on the river. These are all expressions of the popular poker game Texas Holdem, and this will be the game being put on by the Knights of Columbus to raise money for the charity. Make a Child Smile creates basic need kits for needy children, and poker players wanting to help contribute can buy in for $65…
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Poker talk:
- CAP - To cap the betting is to make the last permitted raise in a round.
- OPENERS - Cards in a hand that qualify a player to open the betting.
- DEAD MAN'S HAND - Generically: two pair, aces and eights. Specifically: the black aces, black eights and nine of diamonds. The hand Wild Bill Hickok was holding when he was shot to death.
- STUCK - Down a nontrivial amount of money, as in "he's stuck $800".
- FISH - A player who loses money. An old saying is "If you can't spot the fish at the table, *you* are the fish.".
- POCKET ROCKETS - In Hold'em, a pair of aces for hole cards.
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