Getting Around Las Vegas During the WSOP
Welcome to Las Vegas. Those casinos are a lot farther away from each other than you thought. What’s the best way to get around? Your first decision is whether or not you are going to rent a car at the airport. There are a whole bunch of things…
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Useful poker terms:
- BOAT - A FULL HOUSE, three of a kind and a pair.
- ANTE - A small bet all players are required to make before a hand is dealt. Not all games have an ante. Related terms: BLIND, FORCED BET.
- KICKER - In hands containing pairs and trips, the highest card not matched. In draw games, sometimes a card kept for deception purposes.
- OUT - [1] A card that will improve your hand, often substantially. A hand with many OUTS is preferable to a hand with only 1 or 2. [2] Folded, ineligible to bet or win this hand. "I'm out" is often a synonym for "I fold".
- 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.
- MISDEAL - A hand dealt incorrectly that must be re-dealt.
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