Poker Room Review: Tropicana Casino and Resort, Atlantic City, NJ
I visited the Tropicana Casino and Resort during Veteran’s Day weekend of 2007. It was the second stop on a marathon poker-playing trip in Atlantic City when I had planned to walk from casino to casino on the boardwalk, trying out each poker…
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Poker terminology:
- SUICIDE KING - King of Hearts. So named because in the drawing the king appears to be stabbing himself in the head.
- OUT - [1] A card that will improve your hand, often substantially. A hand with many OUTS is preferable to a hand with only 1 or 2. [2] Folded, ineligible to bet or win this hand. "I'm out" is often a synonym for "I fold".
- FREEZE-OUT - A table-stakes game that continues until a small number of players (possibly only one) has all the money. The major event in The World Series of Poker is a freeze-out game.
- UNDERDOG - Before all the cards are dealt, a hand that does not figure to be the winner. Ant: FAVORITE.
- FIFTH STREET - In stud poker, the fifth card to be dealt to each player. Sometimes used to refer to the last card dealt in Hold'em, although the more common term for this is RIVER (q.v.).
- STUCK - Down a nontrivial amount of money, as in "he's stuck $800".
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