Harvard lawyer wants to legitimize poker
A Harvard Law School professor best known for defending the man who leaked the Pentagon Papers and for helping parents sue chemical companies in a case popularized by the film “A Civil Action” has a new cause: poker. Charles Nesson wants governments to relax restrictions on poker players. He has formed the Global Poker Strategic Thinking Society with some of his students to promote poker as a …
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Poker argot:
- KICKER TROUBLE - Not having as high a kicker as an opponent.
- GOOD GAME - A game with players worse than you so that you can expect to win a lot of money.
- HOUSE RULE - Rules and interpretations (e.g., use of wild cards, or rules on having to show beaten hands) that are specific to an establishment or even tables within the establishment.
- BOARD - The exposed cards in Hold'em and stud. Also BOARD CARDS.
- SCOOP - To take all of a pot that is normally split, either by winning both halves outright or winning one half when no players qualify for the other half.
- FREE CARD - A card dealt after all players checked in a betting round.
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