Poker & Pop Culture: Herbert O. Yardley’s ‘The Education of a Poker Player’
There was a time, prior to the era ushered in by books like ‘Super/System’, ‘Caro’s Book of Poker Tells’, and ‘The Theory of Poker’…
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Poker glossary:
- FLOORMAN - The casino representative in charge of the card room or a section of a card room. Arbitrates disputes when unusual events happen.
- UNDER THE GUN - The position that has to act first in a round of betting.
- TOKE - Gambling term for "tip", as in "Toke the cocktail waitress". Comes from the term "Token of appreciation".
- 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.
- SPLIT [THE POT] - To split the pot between two or more players. Related term: QUARTER.
- DOYLE BRUNSON - In Hold'em, 10-2 in the hole. So named because Doyle Brunson won two straight WSOPs (q.v.) in 1975 and 1976 with 10-2 on the last hand. (Suited (spades) in 1975, unsuited in 1976).
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