From tomboy schoolgirl to poker queen
As a teenager, Victoria Coren started playing poker with her brother and his schoolmates. At 33, she won the European championship and a jackpot of $1 million. In an extract from her new book, For Richer, For Poorer: A Love Affair With Poker , she shows how the game sustained her through difficult times… I am 12 years old, in Portobello market with my father. He thinks it’s time for me to …
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Poker lexicon:
- BOAT - A FULL HOUSE, three of a kind and a pair.
- COMPUTER HAND - Texas Hold'em hole cards of Q-7 offsuit. More generically, any hand that computer analysis/simulation determines is positive but turns out to be difficult to play in practice.
- FULL HOUSE - A hand consisting of 3-of-a-kind and a (different) pair.
- SEMI-BLUFF - To bluff with a come hand that figures to win if it hits.
- POT - The total amount of money bet so far in a hand.
- SPLIT [OPENERS] - In draw poker, to discard one or more openers, usually to draw to a straight or flush. Normally requires the opener to declare the act and retain the discards so that the act of opening can later be validated.
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