World Series of Poker nears finish
Dennis Phillips figures his replica St. Louis Cardinals baseball cap has another two days of life left in it. Adorned with the autographs of professional poker’s elite, Phillips will retire the cap sometime Tuesday.
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Poker terminology:
- COLD CALL - Calling both a bet and raise at the same time, as opposed to calling a bet then later calling a raise made after the call.
- WALK - A pot won by the last blind when no one opens.
- FLOORMAN - The casino representative in charge of the card room or a section of a card room. Arbitrates disputes when unusual events happen.
- OMAHA - A variant of Hold'em where each player receives 4 hole cards and must use exactly two of them (together with 3 of 5 board cards) to make a hand. Often played high-low split with an 8 qualifier for low.
- CASE - The fourth card of a particular rank, as in "he folded the case 9" when describing where all the 9s were in a hand. Comes from the game of Faro where an employee of the house, called the "case keeper". kept track of the number of each rank of card remaining.
- MIDDLE POSITION - Betting positions approximately halfway around the table from the first player to act.
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