Near $1 billion in assets, bank readies West Coast expansion
DURHAM - Durham’s trendy American Tobacco warehouse complex might be home base for Square 1 Bank, the state’s most specialized lender, but it’s at far-flung places - like beside the poker tables at Wolfgang’s Steakhouse in Manhattan’s Tribeca district - that the so-called “venture bank” has been making a name for itself.
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Poker lingo:
- CALLER - One who calls. Sometimes used collectively, as in "3 callers".
- STAND OFF - To call a raise. "Opener raises, I stand off".
- MILES OF BAD ROAD - Three of a kind. Prefixed with a number, 3*<N>, to indicate 3 <N>s. Thus "24 miles of bad road" is 3 eights, etc. (This obviously doesn't work for face cards.)
- COMPUTER HAND - Texas Hold'em hole cards of Q-7 offsuit. More generically, any hand that computer analysis/simulation determines is positive but turns out to be difficult to play in practice.
- CHASE - To continue in a hand, often at poor odds, in the hopes of catching a much better hand. "He called, chasing the flush.".
- WHITE BLACKBIRD - A hand so astonishingly rare as to be unworthy of the opponents' consideration, e.g., being dealt a pat royal flush in 5-card draw.
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