Winstar Casinos to break into TV poker tournaments
By Herald Democrat THACKERVILLE, Okla. With $5 million in guaranteed cash and a chance to create, or further, a television career has celebrities and some of the worlds best poker and blackjack players coming to the Texoma region.
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Poker lingo:
- AMERICAN AIRLINES - In Hold'em, a pair of Aces in the hole. Better known (at least in rec.gambling) as POCKET ROCKETS.
- STAND OFF - To call a raise. "Opener raises, I stand off".
- EDGE - An advantage over an opponent, either specific or subjective.
- QUALIFIER - A minimum standard that a hand must meet in order to win. Usually applied to the lowball side of a high-low split pot.
- TOP TWO PAIR - In flop games, having hole cards that make the highest possible two pair hand.
- 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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