PokerNews Op-Ed: Recognizing When You Need to Change Your Patterns
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Poker jargon:
- FISH - A player who loses money. An old saying is "If you can't spot the fish at the table, *you* are the fish.".
- 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.
- RAIL - A barrier dividing the card playing area from a public area.
- BIG BLIND - A blind bet, usually a raise of an earlier blind which would be called the SMALL BLIND. In limit poker, the BIG BLIND is usually the size of the minimum bet on the first round of betting.
- STUCK - Down a nontrivial amount of money, as in "he's stuck $800".
- MARKED CARDS - Cards that have been (illegally) altered so that their value can be read from the back.
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