Around the World with Lynn Gilmartin: Auckland
Lynn Gilmartin is back, chronicling her trips around the world, covering all of your favorite poker tournaments. In this edition, she gives us a look at Auckland, the next stop on the PokerStars Asia Pacific Poker Tour.
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Useful poker terms:
- RAGS - Board cards that are small, not suited and not in sequence, e.g., 9-5-2. When "rags flop", it is unlikely that anyone has a good hand, except possibly the big blind in an unraised pot.
- OPENER - The player who opens the betting, especially in draw poker. A hand may have no openers, in which case it is PASSED OUT, i.e., new hands are dealt.
- TOP PAIR - In flop games, having a hole card that matches the highest card on the board.
- COMPUTER HAND - Texas Hold'em hole cards of Q-7 offsuit. More generically, any hand that computer analysis/simulation determines is positive but turns out to be difficult to play in practice.
- BOARD - The exposed cards in Hold'em and stud. Also BOARD CARDS.
- OVERPAIR - In Hold'em, a pair in the hole that is larger than any community card on the board.
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