Poker night for teens can be a good learning experience
Its that time of the evening when Moms washing the last load of laundry, Dad is taking the dog for a long walk and the teenagers are hanging out in the basement. Yep, it must be time for the weekly poker game. At many houses, mine included, its one of the summer rituals: A handful of popcorn-chomping teens sitting around a table wearing sunglasses and baseball caps, hoping to get lucky and …
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Poker lexicon:
- LATE POSITION - For a particular betting round, a player who does not have to act until most of the other players have acted.
- STUCK - Down a nontrivial amount of money, as in "he's stuck $800".
- LOWBALL - Generic term for poker where the lowest hand wins.
- PASSED OUT. - A hand in which nobody opens. What happens next is a function of the game being played.
- TAPPED [OUT] - Out of money. Can refer to a player running out of money in the course of a hand, thus still active for the main pot; or can refer to a player who has lost his bankroll and can no longer play.
- READ - To determine whether an opponent has a good, medium or bad hand by observing his personal behavior. An inexact science.
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