Buffets: Food and Poker by Lee Jones
Poker can be a lonely game. Unlike, for instance, softball, there’s nothing that requires you to get together with other people of a like mind or intent. You go down to the casino or card club, play poker, and then leave. Too often, when a poker room “acquaintance” approaches you, it’s for one of three reasons:
· He wants to tell you a bad beat story
· He wants to borrow money from you
· You’ve borrowed money from him and he wants you to pay it back
These aren’t necessarily the criteria for great personal relationships. Topping it all off, people in the poker profession are often there because they prefer to work alone – on their own hours, thank you very much. The idea of being in an *ffice, with a j*b, and reporting to a b*ss… Well, it’s more than they can handle.
But among those of us who fancy poker as an avocation and recreation, there’s nothing quite as fun as getting together with fellow poker fanatics to share stories, tell tales, and put bad beats on each other.
Probably one of the most long-lived gatherings among the poker community is “BARGE” – an every-August gathering in Las Vegas that got its …
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Poker talk:
- BLACK - When referring to chips, black usually stands for $100 casino chips. "This guy sits down with a stack of blacks and raises the first bet." Not ALL casinos use black for $100 but that is the common usage.
- WALK - A pot won by the last blind when no one opens.
- OPENERS - Cards in a hand that qualify a player to open the betting.
- RAINBOW - In flop games, a flop in which no two cards are of the same suit. "The flop was A 9 7 rainbow."
- EXPECTATION - The long-run [dis-]advantage of a given situation, specifically without reference to any particular outcome. I.e., what you figure to win [lose] on average after a large number of repetitions of the same situation.
- DRAWING DEAD - A draw in which it is impossible to obtain a winning hand for any of a variety of reasons: an opponent's hand is better than whatever you are drawing to, the card(s) that make your hand are out of play, or (in Hold'em) give an opponent a stronger hand even if it makes yours. Frequently used in the past tense, since one rarely knows it at the time.
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