Teacher, policeman, prosecutor charged in SC poker game raid
The list of those charged in a raid on a Charleston-area poker game keeps growing. Authorities now say a police officer, a teacher and a state prosecutor are among 65 people charged with gambling after the raid Friday night.
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Useful poker terms:
- SMALL BLIND - In games with two blinds the first blind is the SMALL BLIND because it is usually one-half (or less) the second or large blind.
- ON TILT - Playing worse (usually, more aggressively) than usual because a player has become emotionally upset.
- 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.
- TABLE STAKES - A standard rule whereby during a hand players can only bet the money they have on the table. If the bet to a player is more than the player's stack, that player may call with all his chips and be eligible to win only that portion of the pot he contributed to equally. A side pot is created, for which only the remaining players may compete.
- MILES OF BAD ROAD - Three of a kind. Prefixed with a number, 3*<N>, to indicate 3 <N>s. Thus "24 miles of bad road" is 3 eights, etc. (This obviously doesn't work for face cards.)
- WIRED [PAIR] - A pair in the hole. In 5-card stud, a door card that pairs the hole card.
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