Soldiers Get Visit from Poker Pros
The Poker Players Alliance recently joined forces with the USO of Metropolitan Washington to bring poker pros such as Phil Gordon to Walter Reed hospital to visit injured soldiers and their families. Gordon, along with plenty of other high profile poker pros, expressed their gratitude to the troops for their service while showing them a trick or two in a poker game. Howard “The Professor” Lederer, Victor Ramdin, Rhett Butler, Gavin Griffin and Andy Bloch were all on hand, as well as Leeann Tweeden, the hostess of the hit NBC show Poker After Dark.
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Poker lingo:
- 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.
- COMPUTER HAND - Texas Hold'em hole cards of Q-7 offsuit. More generically, any hand that computer analysis/simulation determines is positive but turns out to be difficult to play in practice.
- MIDDLE POSITION - Betting positions approximately halfway around the table from the first player to act.
- STRAIGHT FLUSH - A hand consisting of 5 cards in sequence and the same suit.
- PROP - Also PROPOSITION PLAYER. An employee of the gaming establishment whose primary purpose is to keep enough players at a table to prevent breaking up the game for lack of players. Unlike SHILLs "props" make a small hourly wage but play with their own money, winning or losing based on their skill.
- STUD - Any of several poker games in which some of each players' cards are exposed.
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