The Weekly Turbo: PokerStars Announces North American Poker Tour, Prop Bets, and More
Today’s Weekly Turbo is bringing you all the news that happened through the week. If you been holed up somewhere without an internet connection you probably missed the announcement of the PokerStars North American Poker Tour, a prop bet that gets…
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Poker lexicon:
- BICYCLE - The best possible low hand: A-2-3-4-5. More common term: WHEEL.
- STRING BET - An unethical and often illegal means of raising whereby a player puts a call-size stack of chips into the pot and, after observing the reactions of the players, then goes back to his stack and puts out more, thus raising.
- LIMIT POKER - A poker game wherein the amount to be bet is fixed, or at most variable within a prescribed minimum and maximum. Ant.: NO-LIMIT POKER.
- 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.)
- WHITE BLACKBIRD - A hand so astonishingly rare as to be unworthy of the opponents' consideration, e.g., being dealt a pat royal flush in 5-card draw.
- STAKE - The amount of a player's BUY-IN, or the amount of money they are willing to play with in a given session. Compare: BANKROLL.
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