‘Poker priest’ beats pro, wins for the building fund
GARDEN CITY BEACH — A crowd of 300 people in a school gymnasium cheered for their poker-playing priest Sunday as the Rev. Andrew Trapp got one step closer to winning the “PokerStars.net Million Dollar Challenge.”
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Useful poker terms:
- LOOSE - Playing more hands than the norm. Antonym: TIGHT.
- KICKER - In hands containing pairs and trips, the highest card not matched. In draw games, sometimes a card kept for deception purposes.
- TURN - The fourth community card in Hold'em.
- CASE - The fourth card of a particular rank, as in "he folded the case 9" when describing where all the 9s were in a hand. Comes from the game of Faro where an employee of the house, called the "case keeper". kept track of the number of each rank of card remaining.
- JOKER - A 53rd card in the deck, distinct from the others, used as a wild card or as a BUG.
- BIG BLIND - A blind bet, usually a raise of an earlier blind which would be called the SMALL BLIND. In limit poker, the BIG BLIND is usually the size of the minimum bet on the first round of betting.
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