Playing in Vegas
The last time I was in Las Vegas, there was only one thing I wanted to. I passed the blackjack tables, shot by the roulette wheel, said no thank you to the craps table, and forgot about buying tickets to Celine Dion. What I wanted to do was play Poker . I love everything about poker, from the hung hopes of seeing the community cards come down to the tension of deciding whether or not to call a …
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Poker jargon:
- KICKER TROUBLE - Not having as high a kicker as an opponent.
- OVERCALL - To call a bet after one or more players already called.
- BOAT - A FULL HOUSE, three of a kind and a pair.
- LIVE BLIND - The last and largest blind bet may or may not be LIVE. If LIVE, the blind bettor has the option of "raising" his own blind in the event the bet is called around to him. This is normal, and is sometimes referred to as "blinds are live".
- CASE - The fourth card of a particular rank, as in "he folded the case 9" when describing where all the 9s were in a hand. Comes from the game of Faro where an employee of the house, called the "case keeper". kept track of the number of each rank of card remaining.
- CRYING CALL - A call made with little chance of ultimately winning, but marginally better than an immediate fold.
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