Poker and Golf Return Together
Last year the World Series of Poker influenced a number of big time poker pros to organize and play in their second favorite game - golf. The 2007 World Series of Golf was a big deal to the players, who teamed up to try and take each other’s bankroll down to zero and win all the “chips”, like in poker. The game will return to Las Vegas in May, from the 12th to the 15th, as the 2008 World Series of Golf…
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Poker lingo:
- WALK - A pot won by the last blind when no one opens.
- STUCK - Down a nontrivial amount of money, as in "he's stuck $800".
- 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.
- AMERICAN AIRLINES - In Hold'em, a pair of Aces in the hole. Better known (at least in rec.gambling) as POCKET ROCKETS.
- BRODERICK CRAWFORD - In Hold'em, hole cards of 10-4. From the 1950s TV series "Highway Patrol", starring Broderick Crawford.
- SCOOP - To take all of a pot that is normally split, either by winning both halves outright or winning one half when no players qualify for the other half.
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