Eastday-Jail over poker
Two foreigners have been jailed for six months for operating a gambling house, Shanghai No. 2 Intermediate People’s Court ruled at the weekend. Patrick Liang, 27, a Chinese Brazilian, and Al Gokcimen, a 44-year-old Australian, charged gamblers money to play poker.
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Poker lexicon:
- STUCK - Down a nontrivial amount of money, as in "he's stuck $800".
- BACK DOOR - Applies to a hand that was made in the last card or two, specifically not a hand the player was originally planning on having. Most often applied to straights and flushes.
- KICKER - In hands containing pairs and trips, the highest card not matched. In draw games, sometimes a card kept for deception purposes.
- FREEZE-OUT - A table-stakes game that continues until a small number of players (possibly only one) has all the money. The major event in The World Series of Poker is a freeze-out game.
- RING GAME - A standard game where players can come and go as they choose. The opposite of TOURNAMENT.
- TOKE - Gambling term for "tip", as in "Toke the cocktail waitress". Comes from the term "Token of appreciation".
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