High Stakes for Poker as a Learning Tool
A Harvard Law School professor and a group of his students formed an organization this fall dedicated to demonstrating that poker has educational benefits.
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Poker slang:
- MITES AND LICE - A hand consisting of two pair, threes over twos.
- ON TILT - Playing worse (usually, more aggressively) than usual because a player has become emotionally upset.
- AMERICAN AIRLINES - In Hold'em, a pair of Aces in the hole. Better known (at least in rec.gambling) as POCKET ROCKETS.
- RAGS - Board cards that are small, not suited and not in sequence, e.g., 9-5-2. When "rags flop", it is unlikely that anyone has a good hand, except possibly the big blind in an unraised pot.
- HOYLE - Edmund Hoyle (1769-?) was the authoritative source for rules of card games. Hoyle is to card rules as Webster is to word definitions.
- MIDDLE POSITION - Betting positions approximately halfway around the table from the first player to act.
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