Poker party fundraiser set for Fenton’s Tamara Johnson, who is in her third bout with cancer
Tamara Johnson’s family is hosting a fundraiser at Palace Poker Room, 1110 E. Bristol Rd., beginning Wednesday to help pay medical bills not covered by insurance. The fundraiser will run through Saturday and include 50/50 raffles and a silent auction.
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Poker lingo:
- FIFTH STREET - In stud poker, the fifth card to be dealt to each player. Sometimes used to refer to the last card dealt in Hold'em, although the more common term for this is RIVER (q.v.).
- CALLER - One who calls. Sometimes used collectively, as in "3 callers".
- PAT - Holding or being dealt a pat hand. "I'm pat" would mean "I don't want to draw any cards.
- 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.
- INSIDE STRAIGHT - Four cards to a straight, where only one rank will complete the hand. E.g., 4-5-6-8 is an inside straight since only a 7 will fill (i.e., complete) the hand. Often called a GUT-SHOT. Compare: BOBTAIL STRAIGHT, OPEN-ENDED STRAIGHT.
- READ - To determine whether an opponent has a good, medium or bad hand by observing his personal behavior. An inexact science.
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