World Series of Poker champion sharing the wealth
A charity event this morning in Long Beach is helping former Temecula resident Jerry Yang make good on the prayer he offered before he entered the 2007 World Series of Poker in Las Vegas.
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Poker jargon:
- POCKET ROCKETS - In Hold'em, a pair of aces for hole cards.
- FLOORMAN - The casino representative in charge of the card room or a section of a card room. Arbitrates disputes when unusual events happen.
- LIVE BLIND - The last and largest blind bet may or may not be LIVE. If LIVE, the blind bettor has the option of "raising" his own blind in the event the bet is called around to him. This is normal, and is sometimes referred to as "blinds are live".
- 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.
- BAD GAME - Any game in which you figure to be the loser, because the other players are better than you.
- MIDDLE POSITION - Betting positions approximately halfway around the table from the first player to act.
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