New ‘Amazing Race’ teams include pro poker players, Harlem Globetrotters
LOS ANGELES (AP) One team will have a leg up on the competition in the upcoming season of “The Amazing Race.”
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Poker glossary:
- WORLD SERIES OF POKER - A series of several different poker games with relatively large buy-ins, culminating in a $10,000 buy-in no-limit Hold'em tournament, the winner of which is crowned the World Poker Champion. Sponsored by Binion's Horseshoe Club in Las Vegas.
- 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.)
- STAND OFF - To call a raise. "Opener raises, I stand off".
- GUT SHOT - A draw to an inside straight, as in 2-3-4-6.
- GOOD GAME - A game with players worse than you so that you can expect to win a lot of money.
- HIGH-LOW SPLIT - Forms of poker in which the pot is split between the best hand and best lowball hand.
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