College Kids Use Poker to Pay for Tuition
College is a time of life when many kids learn about juggling a work/life balance with academics in order to pay for their tuition, which at some universities can easily range into the mid to upper five figure ranges. Some college students are turning to online poker in order to help pay the bills, and some experts see this as a growing trend. While loans are common when it comes to acquiring college money, these experts, like Rep…
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Poker jargon:
- FACE CARD - A jack, queen or king (a card with a face on it, not joker).
- STAND OFF - To call a raise. "Opener raises, I stand off".
- HOYLE - Edmund Hoyle (1769-?) was the authoritative source for rules of card games. Hoyle is to card rules as Webster is to word definitions.
- GUT SHOT - A draw to an inside straight, as in 2-3-4-6.
- MUCK - [1] A collection of face-down cards near the dealer composed of discards, i.e., folded hands, burns and discards for drawing purposes. [2] To throw one's cards into the muck, thus folding.
- 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.
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