Poker contenders aim to play cards right
TOP poker players from across the country are battling it out on the green baize in Edinburgh this weekend.
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Useful poker terms:
- TAP - In no-limit games, to wager all of one's money in one bet.
- STRING BET - An unethical and often illegal means of raising whereby a player puts a call-size stack of chips into the pot and, after observing the reactions of the players, then goes back to his stack and puts out more, thus raising.
- OVERCALL - To call a bet after one or more players already called.
- ONE-EYED - The jack of hearts, jack of spades or king of diamonds. So named because the characters are drawn in profile, thus showing only one eye.
- POT - The total amount of money bet so far in a hand.
- SET - In Hold'em, three of a kind where two of the cards are hole cards.
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