Poker championship attracts state’s top players
As a former used car salesman, Ron Ervin knows how to read people. For instance, he knows exactly what to think when he meets a brash poker greenhorn who introduces himself as a “professional player.”
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Poker dictionary:
- 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.
- BIG SLICK - In Texas Hold'em, hole cards of A-K, suited or not.
- ON THE COME - A situation where the player does not have a complete hand but hopes to make one if the right cards come up.
- LATE BLIND - In addition to "regular" blinds, some games allow a player (particularly a new one) to post a blind bet in return for the right to enter the game immediately and act last on the first betting round. The amount of the blind is determined by house rules, usually somewhere between the last blind and double the last blind. It is frequently a LIVE BLIND.
- BAD GAME - Any game in which you figure to be the loser, because the other players are better than you.
- HOUSE RULE - Rules and interpretations (e.g., use of wild cards, or rules on having to show beaten hands) that are specific to an establishment or even tables within the establishment.
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