Heads-Up Poker a Big Draw

NBC seems to know what it is doing when it comes to poker and TV, as shown with their ongoing Poker After Dark show and the draw the first week of their National Heads-Up Poker Championship generated. Sunday, April 13th was the first show, which drew a 1.5 rating, up from a 1.4 rating from one year ago. This is the fourth season of the show, which will air on consecutive Sundays through May…

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Tue, April 15th, 2008

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  • HIGH-LOW SPLIT - Forms of poker in which the pot is split between the best hand and best lowball hand.
  • HOYLE - Edmund Hoyle (1769-?) was the authoritative source for rules of card games. Hoyle is to card rules as Webster is to word definitions.
  • WHITE BLACKBIRD - A hand so astonishingly rare as to be unworthy of the opponents' consideration, e.g., being dealt a pat royal flush in 5-card draw.
  • PASSED OUT. - A hand in which nobody opens. What happens next is a function of the game being played.
  • FLOP - [1] In Hold'em, the first three community cards, dealt simultaneously. [2] To deal a flop, or to make a hand on a flop. "I flopped trips".
  • FREEROLL - [1] A poker tournament that does not charge a buy-in fee; players must earn buy-in credits through previous play at the same establishment. [2] Having a lock on part of a pot (sure to win a greater fraction of the pot than one is betting) and playing to win more or all of it.
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