The Nightly Turbo: The PokerStars Big Game, MoneyMaker and Esfandiari on Entourage, and More
We’ve got a preview of the PokerStars Big Game, which is in its third week. Did you catch the premiere of Entourage last night? If you did, then you caught Chris Moneymaker and Antonio Esfandiari doing the acting thing. We’ve got these two stories…
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Poker slang:
- DOOR [CARD] - A player's first upcard in stud games.
- BLUFF - To make a bet or raise with a poor hand, in hope that the remaining active player(s) will fold.
- 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.
- DEAD MONEY - Money contributed to the pot by players who have folded.
- RAINBOW - In flop games, a flop in which no two cards are of the same suit. "The flop was A 9 7 rainbow."
- SIDE POT - When an active player runs out of money during the course of a hand, the remaining players participate in a second or SIDE POT for the rest of the hand. Additional side pots are possible if several players run out of money at different points in a hand.

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