Women’s Poker Spotlight: Poker’s Fresh New Faces
As we prepare for the 2008 World Series of Poker, it’s interesting to ponder what this year’s field of women poker players might be like. 2007 was a fantastic year for women in poker as we witnessed the creation of the Women…
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Poker lingo:
- FILL - To draw a card that makes a five-card hand (straight, flush, full house, straight flush).
- SEVENTH STREET - The seventh card dealt in 7-card stud.
- PASSED OUT. - A hand in which nobody opens. What happens next is a function of the game being played.
- 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.
- STUCK - Down a nontrivial amount of money, as in "he's stuck $800".
- FIXED LIMIT - A betting structure where the amount of each bet is a specific fixed quantity. Usually specified as A-B, where A is the amount to bet in the first few betting rounds and B (larger than A) is the amount bet in the later rounds. Related terms: FLAT LIMIT, NO LIMIT, POT LIMIT, SPREAD LIMIT.
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