Sexton’s Corner, Vol. 18: Ungar, Baxter Joined in WSOP Lore
There is a lot of history between Stu Ungar and Billy Baxter that would make an incredible movie! We couldn’t call it the Odd Couple, as Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau already claimed that title. Stuey, of course, was this mysterious…
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Poker lingo:
- BET FOR VALUE - Betting a hand that, in the long run, is expected to win more than it loses. Antonym: BLUFF.
- CASE - The fourth card of a particular rank, as in "he folded the case 9" when describing where all the 9s were in a hand. Comes from the game of Faro where an employee of the house, called the "case keeper". kept track of the number of each rank of card remaining.
- RING GAME - A standard game where players can come and go as they choose. The opposite of TOURNAMENT.
- ACTION - Money that is being bet. "NO ACTION" means a hand or game has few bettors and fewer raisers. "Gimme some action" is ostensibly a plea for calls and raises.
- TOP TWO PAIR - In flop games, having hole cards that make the highest possible two pair hand.
- SET - In Hold'em, three of a kind where two of the cards are hole cards.
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