Big Turnout for Charity Poker
Nearly sixty players generated HK$88,500 for a good cause in Macau over the weekend. The Macau Cup, held in the PokerStars Macau Poker Room at the Grand Waldo Casino, pulled in players who put up HK$1,500 each to play. The money was gathered up and passed on to Macau Caritas, while players vied for a seat to the second season Asia Pacific Poker Tournament to be held in Macau…
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Poker jargon:
- 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.
- NUT / NUTS - The best possible hand of a given class. Not a LOCK unless all cards have been dealt. The "nut flush" is the highest possible flush, but might still lose to, e.g., a full house. Usually used in Hold'em games.
- HIGH-LOW SPLIT - Forms of poker in which the pot is split between the best hand and best lowball hand.
- 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.
- RAIL - A barrier dividing the card playing area from a public area.
- TOKE - Gambling term for "tip", as in "Toke the cocktail waitress". Comes from the term "Token of appreciation".
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