Casino kicks off first big poker tournament of 09

The Home of New Zealand Poker, Christchurch Casino, holds not your average poker tournament. Adding Lord of the Rings tours, jetboat adventures and alpine safaris to the High Stakes Holdem Challenge makes the first big competition in 2009 not your average poker tournament.

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Poker jargon:

WHITE BLACKBIRD - A hand so astonishingly rare as to be unworthy of the opponents' consideration, e.g., being dealt a pat royal flush in 5-card draw.
STRING BET - An unethical and often illegal means of raising whereby a player puts a call-size stack of chips into the pot and, after observing the reactions of the players, then goes back to his stack and puts out more, thus raising.
DEALER'S CHOICE - In home games, a rule that permits the dealer to name which poker game to be played that hand. Often limited to selecting from a list provided.
DEAD MONEY - Money contributed to the pot by players who have folded.
SIDE POT - When an active player runs out of money during the course of a hand, the remaining players participate in a second or SIDE POT for the rest of the hand. Additional side pots are possible if several players run out of money at different points in a hand.
FIFTH STREET - In stud poker, the fifth card to be dealt to each player. Sometimes used to refer to the last card dealt in Hold'em, although the more common term for this is RIVER (q.v.).

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