Taking their chances on poker’s legality
Is Texas Hold ‘Em about the luck of the draw, or the skill of the player? The question is being played out in courts around the country. Let’s say you’re playing poker and you need one more diamond for a flush. The dealer turns a card, reveals a diamond and you win the hand. Was it skill or luck?
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Poker dictionary:
- FACE CARD - A jack, queen or king (a card with a face on it, not joker).
- DEAD MONEY - Money contributed to the pot by players who have folded.
- TOURNAMENT - A highly structured game involving potentially dozens of tables where all participants pay an entry fee and obtain a fixed number of chips. Once a tournament has started, additional players may not enter. As the game progresses players bust out and are eliminated until only one winner remains.
- LOCK - A hand that cannot be beat under any circumstances. Also: NUTS.
- CAP - To cap the betting is to make the last permitted raise in a round.
- MILES OF BAD ROAD - Three of a kind. Prefixed with a number, 3*<N>, to indicate 3 <N>s. Thus "24 miles of bad road" is 3 eights, etc. (This obviously doesn't work for face cards.)
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