A poker run for charity
On a beautiful day, it doesn’t take much to persuade bikers to take a ride. So much the better when that ride can benefit a family in need. Bikers gathered at the Blue Crew Clubhouse off of West Cabiness Road Saturday to participate in a Poker Run for the Young family.
Related Poker News:
- New Hampshire Targets Charity Poker
- California Poker Legislation Could Help Charity
- NC Charity Giving Away Seat to WSOP
- Ozzie Smith, Seth Joyner to Headline ‘Par and Poker’ Charity Event
- NASCAR drivers playing poker for charity
- Hockey Poker Charity Event
- Hockey players face off at charity poker
- Van Patten Charity Poker Event to Go to the Dogs
- Charity Poker Hosted by Poker Brat
- Charity poker folds for year short of goal
- Quiznos sponsoring charity poker
- Hollywood Poker raises $50,000 for charity
Poker glossary:
- TOKE - Gambling term for "tip", as in "Toke the cocktail waitress". Comes from the term "Token of appreciation".
- 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.
- HIT - To make a hand or catch a card or cards that improves one's hand. "I hit a gut-shot draw on the river."
- CHASE - To continue in a hand, often at poor odds, in the hopes of catching a much better hand. "He called, chasing the flush.".
- GOOD GAME - A game with players worse than you so that you can expect to win a lot of money.
- DRAWING DEAD - A draw in which it is impossible to obtain a winning hand for any of a variety of reasons: an opponent's hand is better than whatever you are drawing to, the card(s) that make your hand are out of play, or (in Hold'em) give an opponent a stronger hand even if it makes yours. Frequently used in the past tense, since one rarely knows it at the time.
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