Thom Loverro: Playing poker leaves nothing but a deficit
So what do you do when you go to your ace in the hole and you have nothing to show for it? That’s the question facing the Washington Capitals and coach Bruce Boudreau after Saturday’s 1-0 loss to the New York Rangers in Game 2 of Eastern Conference quarterfinals at Verizon Center, putting the Caps down 2-0 in the series. After getting beat 4-3 on Wednesday night, Boudreau made the move to …
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Poker lexicon:
- FIRE - To make the first bet in a betting round. Used to emphasize that the player bet when a check was possible, showing strength.
- PROP - Also PROPOSITION PLAYER. An employee of the gaming establishment whose primary purpose is to keep enough players at a table to prevent breaking up the game for lack of players. Unlike SHILLs "props" make a small hourly wage but play with their own money, winning or losing based on their skill.
- MISDEAL - A hand dealt incorrectly that must be re-dealt.
- TABLE STAKES - A standard rule whereby during a hand players can only bet the money they have on the table. If the bet to a player is more than the player's stack, that player may call with all his chips and be eligible to win only that portion of the pot he contributed to equally. A side pot is created, for which only the remaining players may compete.
- SHARK - A good/crafty player often posing as a fish early in the game.
- 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.
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