Chuck Blount on Poker: Players tout game as ‘microcosm of life’
A Harvard Law professor is trumpeting poker as a game of skill that translates into all forms of day-to-day living. Charles Nesson founded the Global Poker Strategic Thinking Society this year.
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Useful poker terms:
- BRODERICK CRAWFORD - In Hold'em, hole cards of 10-4. From the 1950s TV series "Highway Patrol", starring Broderick Crawford.
- REPRESENT - Implying, by one's betting style, that one has a particular hand.
- OPENER - The player who opens the betting, especially in draw poker. A hand may have no openers, in which case it is PASSED OUT, i.e., new hands are dealt.
- QUALIFIER - A minimum standard that a hand must meet in order to win. Usually applied to the lowball side of a high-low split pot.
- BET - To put money into the pot, pursuant to the rules of the game, thus maintaining a chance of winning the pot.
- LIMIT POKER - A poker game wherein the amount to be bet is fixed, or at most variable within a prescribed minimum and maximum. Ant.: NO-LIMIT POKER.
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