Professional Poker is a Business
Success at professional poker is widely different and is relative to what each individual professional poker players goals and needs are. Professional poker players are not all millionaires that make seven figure incomes every year. Some professional poker players may pull down as little as twenty or thirty thousand dollars per year, depending on their risk tolerance, skill level, and commitment. The one thing that all professional poker players have in common, however, is just that; PROFESSIONALISM! Professional poker is a business and professional poker players are businessmen.
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Poker argot:
- FREE CARD - A card dealt after all players checked in a betting round.
- WORLD SERIES OF POKER - A series of several different poker games with relatively large buy-ins, culminating in a $10,000 buy-in no-limit Hold'em tournament, the winner of which is crowned the World Poker Champion. Sponsored by Binion's Horseshoe Club in Las Vegas.
- 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.
- MUCK - [1] A collection of face-down cards near the dealer composed of discards, i.e., folded hands, burns and discards for drawing purposes. [2] To throw one's cards into the muck, thus folding.
- BRODERICK CRAWFORD - In Hold'em, hole cards of 10-4. From the 1950s TV series "Highway Patrol", starring Broderick Crawford.
- RAINBOW - In flop games, a flop in which no two cards are of the same suit. "The flop was A 9 7 rainbow."
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