Tables bustle with poker action
WHEELING — The sound of poker chips — it’s like the constant chirping of crickets. Saunter down into the new poker room at Wheeling Island Racetrack and Gaming Center, close your eyes and that’s all you’ll hear. Dozens of poker chips scuffing against one another simultaneously.
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Poker slang:
- OPENERS - Cards in a hand that qualify a player to open the betting.
- FIRE - To make the first bet in a betting round. Used to emphasize that the player bet when a check was possible, showing strength.
- 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.
- HIGH-LOW SPLIT - Forms of poker in which the pot is split between the best hand and best lowball hand.
- ON THE COME - A situation where the player does not have a complete hand but hopes to make one if the right cards come up.
- TRIPS - Three of a kind. In Hold'em the term SET is used when two of the three cards are hole cards.
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