Jeff Haney sees rise of duplicate poker, a game in which luck loses out to brains
Wed, Apr 9, 2008 (2 a.m.) The timing was coincidental, but shortly after a reader from Henderson proposed a tournament based on duplicate poker in this column recently, an online poker site announced the inaugural Duplicate Poker World Championship with the finals set for this fall.
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Poker jargon:
- LEAK - To show one's hole cards (often unknowingly).
- BRODERICK CRAWFORD - In Hold'em, hole cards of 10-4. From the 1950s TV series "Highway Patrol", starring Broderick Crawford.
- SEMI-BLUFF - To bluff with a come hand that figures to win if it hits.
- BOAT - A FULL HOUSE, three of a kind and a pair.
- LOWBALL - Generic term for poker where the lowest hand wins.
- FORCED BET - In some stud games a player may be required to make a bet to start the action on the first card. This is similar conceptually to blinds and antes, but in this case is dependent on the cards shown rather than player position. Usually the weakest hand is forced to bet.
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