Directing Commerce Casino’s poker tournaments with a strong hand
The gig: Getting poker players to risk hundreds, sometimes thousands, of dollars to enter Commerce Casino’s tournaments can present a marketing challenge in this economy. But that’s nothing compared with the organizational skill it takes to feed thousands of players, staff their games with competent dealers and keep participants from tearing at one another’s throats.
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Poker dictionary:
- CAP - To cap the betting is to make the last permitted raise in a round.
- ON TILT - Playing worse (usually, more aggressively) than usual because a player has become emotionally upset.
- BOAT - A FULL HOUSE, three of a kind and a pair.
- HIT - To make a hand or catch a card or cards that improves one's hand. "I hit a gut-shot draw on the river."
- QUARTER - [1] Twenty-five dollars, often symbolized by a green casino chip. [2] To divide half a pot between two tying hands. In split pot games, a player who "ties" another player for their half of the pot is said to be "quartered". One might say "I didn't bet my A-2 because I figured I'd get quartered".
- CARDS SPEAK - Winner(s) of the hand are determined by turning their cards face up, the best hand(s) wins (no declaration).
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