[Campus] Poker craze officially hits U with birth of new student group
In the past few years, escalating poker popularity has made names like Phil Hellmuth and Chris Moneymaker as common as baseball legends in some households. The game escaped the confines of mere casino play, and made its way…
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Poker argot:
- TOURNAMENT - A highly structured game involving potentially dozens of tables where all participants pay an entry fee and obtain a fixed number of chips. Once a tournament has started, additional players may not enter. As the game progresses players bust out and are eliminated until only one winner remains.
- TABLE STAKES - A standard rule whereby during a hand players can only bet the money they have on the table. If the bet to a player is more than the player's stack, that player may call with all his chips and be eligible to win only that portion of the pot he contributed to equally. A side pot is created, for which only the remaining players may compete.
- MARKED CARDS - Cards that have been (illegally) altered so that their value can be read from the back.
- STEAM - Playing wildly, calling and raising a lot, because one is upset. Compare: ON TILT.
- FREE CARD - A card dealt after all players checked in a betting round.
- BIG BLIND - A blind bet, usually a raise of an earlier blind which would be called the SMALL BLIND. In limit poker, the BIG BLIND is usually the size of the minimum bet on the first round of betting.
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