Local woman selected for Fox TV poker show
Lora Rinner, of Mountain Home, has been selected to appear on the Poker Stars Million Dollar Challenge on Fox Network. Rinner qualified for the show while playing poker on-line at Pokerstars.net, where she had been one of 20 top finalists in a contest on the website.
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Useful poker information:
- ONE-EYED - The jack of hearts, jack of spades or king of diamonds. So named because the characters are drawn in profile, thus showing only one eye.
- EXPECTATION - The long-run [dis-]advantage of a given situation, specifically without reference to any particular outcome. I.e., what you figure to win [lose] on average after a large number of repetitions of the same situation.
- PASS - Opposite of bet. To check, if checked to. To fold, if bet to.
- FIXED LIMIT - A betting structure where the amount of each bet is a specific fixed quantity. Usually specified as A-B, where A is the amount to bet in the first few betting rounds and B (larger than A) is the amount bet in the later rounds. Related terms: FLAT LIMIT, NO LIMIT, POT LIMIT, SPREAD LIMIT.
- TRIPS - Three of a kind. In Hold'em the term SET is used when two of the three cards are hole cards.
- OVER - A term used in describing two pair or a full house. "Kings over tens" means two pair, kings and tens. "Jacks over", also "Jacks up" describes a hand that is two pair: Jacks with an unspecified lower pair. Also used to describe a full house, distinguishing the three of a kind from the pair. The hand J-J-J-A-A could be described as "Full house, Jacks over Aces".
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