Fairbanks poker game ends in gunpoint robbery
Associated Press - December 30, 2009 12:24 PM ET FAIRBANKS, Alaska (AP) - Fairbanks police are looking for three men who robbed a group of poker players at gunpoint.
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Poker jargon:
- RERAISE - To raise after an opponent has raised.
- BET - To put money into the pot, pursuant to the rules of the game, thus maintaining a chance of winning the pot.
- PAT HAND - In draw poker, a hand that does not need any more cards. Specifically, a straight, flush, full house or straight flush. One might bluff and represent a pat hand but actually hold something else.
- ACTION - Money that is being bet. "NO ACTION" means a hand or game has few bettors and fewer raisers. "Gimme some action" is ostensibly a plea for calls and raises.
- RACE - In tournaments it is sometimes convenient to remove all lower-denomination chips from play, as the remaining players' stacks tend to grow. Small chips are converted to larger chips and any odd chips are "raced off" in the following way: each player with odd chips places them in front of his stack and is dealt one card for each chip. Highest card (rank and suit) takes all the small chips and converts them to higher-denomination chips.
- UNDER THE GUN - The position that has to act first in a round of betting.
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