A poker tournament comes up all hearts
Never in her wildest Christmas dreams did Donna Knapp, a poor but proud single mother of four sons and a breast-cancer survivor with myriad health issues, expect a call one day to tell her that her family would be picked up in a stretch limousine, treated to a fine meal at a posh Italian restaurant, and then be handed a cheque for $10,000 by a group of complete strangers.
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Poker terminology:
- IMPLIED ODDS - A refinement to POT ODDS which includes money not yet in the pot. Considers the potential extra bets and winnings made when a player forms a very good hand.
- CHASE - To continue in a hand, often at poor odds, in the hopes of catching a much better hand. "He called, chasing the flush.".
- 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.
- READ - To determine whether an opponent has a good, medium or bad hand by observing his personal behavior. An inexact science.
- OMAHA - A variant of Hold'em where each player receives 4 hole cards and must use exactly two of them (together with 3 of 5 board cards) to make a hand. Often played high-low split with an 8 qualifier for low.
- FLUSH - A poker hand consisting of five cards all one suit.
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