Poker Player Plunges to Death
In what is being called a freak accident a 20 year old poker player, participating in a prop bet that had him hurtling down a hotel hallway clad in only socks and underwear, crashed through a fifth floor window and fell 40 feet to his death. Mark Day had just come back to the hotel after busting out of a poker game when he was dared to make the dash. His friends, Marc Smart and Steve Kimberly, are working with police at the Majorca Beach Hotel in Magalluf to determine the full extent of the incident.
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Useful poker information:
- POCKET ROCKETS - In Hold'em, a pair of aces for hole cards.
- DRAW OUT - To catch a card that improves your situation from a losing hand to a winning hand, especially when you beat someone holding a hand that usually figures to win.
- FOUR OF A KIND - A hand containing all four cards of the same rank.
- CHECK RAISE - To check initially, then raise a bet made later on in the same betting round. Frequently a sign of strength, but may be a bluff.
- GOOD GAME - A game with players worse than you so that you can expect to win a lot of money.
- LIMIT POKER - A poker game wherein the amount to be bet is fixed, or at most variable within a prescribed minimum and maximum. Ant.: NO-LIMIT POKER.
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