Clintons Hot Poker
A salty old lawyer, whos now arguing before that appellate court in the sky, once bragged of his favorite trial tool. We were unwinding after court (as I’ve disclosed in this column before, I used to practice law) and the war stories, along with my beer and his scotch, flowed freely. He called his favorite trial tool the hot poker. You ask a question you know is entirely objectionable, …
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Useful poker terms:
- FREE CARD - A card dealt after all players checked in a betting round.
- STUD - Any of several poker games in which some of each players' cards are exposed.
- WORLD SERIES OF POKER - A series of several different poker games with relatively large buy-ins, culminating in a $10,000 buy-in no-limit Hold'em tournament, the winner of which is crowned the World Poker Champion. Sponsored by Binion's Horseshoe Club in Las Vegas.
- TOP PAIR - In flop games, having a hole card that matches the highest card on the board.
- AMERICAN AIRLINES - In Hold'em, a pair of Aces in the hole. Better known (at least in rec.gambling) as POCKET ROCKETS.
- TOURNAMENT - A highly structured game involving potentially dozens of tables where all participants pay an entry fee and obtain a fixed number of chips. Once a tournament has started, additional players may not enter. As the game progresses players bust out and are eliminated until only one winner remains.
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