Poker Society Turns to Protesting
The Global Poker Strategic Thinking Society was founded by a Harvard Law Professor who found poker to be a great tool for teaching critical thinking at the college level; apparently professor Charles Nesson finds protesting anti-poker laws to be proper strategy. He and some of his poker playing students will be protesting outside the State House in Massachusetts in order to help thwart Gov. Deval Patrick’s bill…
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Poker lingo:
- DEAD MAN'S HAND - Generically: two pair, aces and eights. Specifically: the black aces, black eights and nine of diamonds. The hand Wild Bill Hickok was holding when he was shot to death.
- SHARK - A good/crafty player often posing as a fish early in the game.
- SPLIT [THE POT] - To split the pot between two or more players. Related term: QUARTER.
- 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.)
- DRAWING DEAD - A draw in which it is impossible to obtain a winning hand for any of a variety of reasons: an opponent's hand is better than whatever you are drawing to, the card(s) that make your hand are out of play, or (in Hold'em) give an opponent a stronger hand even if it makes yours. Frequently used in the past tense, since one rarely knows it at the time.
- LIVE [CARD] - In Stud, a card probably not held by other players.
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