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A CUMBRIAN pub landlord wants customers to be able to play poker on his premises. The request from Gary Kirby, of the Kings Head Hotel at Ravenstonedale, near Kirkby Stephen, goes before Eden councillors tomorrow.

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Poker dictionary:

FREEZE-OUT - A table-stakes game that continues until a small number of players (possibly only one) has all the money. The major event in The World Series of Poker is a freeze-out game.
FACE CARD - A jack, queen or king (a card with a face on it, not joker).
STAND OFF - To call a raise. "Opener raises, I stand off".
OPEN-HANDED - A category of games characterized by a part of each player's hand being exposed.
RACE - In tournaments it is sometimes convenient to remove all lower-denomination chips from play, as the remaining players' stacks tend to grow. Small chips are converted to larger chips and any odd chips are "raced off" in the following way: each player with odd chips places them in front of his stack and is dealt one card for each chip. Highest card (rank and suit) takes all the small chips and converts them to higher-denomination chips.
BURN - To discard the top card of the deck prior to dealing, usually done for every dealing round except the first. The theory being that if somehow the cards are marked (illegally) no one will know what card will next be dealt, only what card will be burned. This makes marked cards less of an advantage, hence tends to reduce cheating.

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