Poker & Pop Culture: Poker-Playing Presidents
Americans head to the polls today to elect their 44th president. It has been a long, arduous, hotly-contested battle, and those reporting it have seen fit on numerous occasions to employ a variety of poker metaphors along the way…
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Poker jargon:
- STUD - Any of several poker games in which some of each players' cards are exposed.
- GUT SHOT - A draw to an inside straight, as in 2-3-4-6.
- PASS - Opposite of bet. To check, if checked to. To fold, if bet to.
- CUT - To break the deck into 2 stacks of at least 5 cards each. Usually performed by the player to the dealer's right to insure that the the deck is not stacked.
- BRODERICK CRAWFORD - In Hold'em, hole cards of 10-4. From the 1950s TV series "Highway Patrol", starring Broderick Crawford.
- 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.
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