Poker; A Guaranteed Income for Life (Frank R. Wallace)

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.Or the ace of diamonds, the jack of clubs, and the nine ofdiamonds as wild cards.Brandeln--A card game similar to Commerce.Breakers--Openers.Breathe--To pass the first opportunities to bet.Brelen--(1) A French card game that influenced the use of straights and flushes in poker.(2) Three of akind.Brelen Carre--Four of a kind.Brief--A single stripper card in a deck used to facilitate illegal cuts.Buck--(1) A marker used to designate the dealer.(2) A marker or a knife used to designate the playerpermitted to deal a special hand, usually a hand with a dealer advantage such as draw.(3) A dollar.Buddy Poker--To avoid betting against a friend or a partner.Buffalo--To fool opponents.Bug--(1) The joker used in high-hand poker as an ace or as a wild card for filling straights and flushes.A wild card in lowball.Can be used in high-low as both a high card and a low card in the same hand(Joker).(2) A device fastened beneath the poker table by a cheater to hold out a card or cards.Bull--A player who raises frequently.Bull or Bullet--An ace.Bull Montana--Five-card stud with betting, then jacks required to open the final bet.http://www.neo-tech.com/poker/appendixc.html (7 of 53)9/17/2004 12:28:01 PMPoker Book, GlossaryBull the Game--To bluff or bet aggressively.Bump--A raise.Buried Card--A card randomly inserted in the deck.Burn--(1) A full house.(2) To lose a hand.(3) Deal a burn card.Burned, Burnt, or Burn Card-- (1) An exposed card put face-up on the bottom of the deck (2) A carddealt face down into the discards.Busted Hand--(1) A worthless hand (Bust).(2) A hand that failed to fill a straight or a flush on the draw.Busy Card--Any card that completes a hand.Butcher Boy--An open-hand form of poker where four of a kind is needed to win.Button--(1) A marker used to signify a theoretical dealer when there is a house dealer.(2) A second orthird pair.Buy--(1) To call bets in order to draw cards.(2) To bluff someone out.Buy In--The stack of chips that a player buys at the start of a game.By Me--An expression meaning to pass or check.- C -California--Draw poker, open on anything.California Lowball--Low-ball in which ace, two, three, four, five is the best hand.Call--Money put in the pot to match a bet or raise.Calling Station--A player who calls almost any bet (Telephone Booth).Carding--Noting of exposed cards during a hand.http://www.neo-tech.com/poker/appendixc.html (8 of 53)9/17/2004 12:28:01 PMPoker Book, GlossaryCard Odds--The probabilities of being dealt or drawing to various handsCardsharp--A cheater.Cards Speak--A rule that the value of a hand is based on what the cards are rather than on what a playerdeclares.Case Card--The last available card of a particular value or suit.Cash In--To exchange poker chips for cash and then to quit (Cash Out).Casino Poker--Public poker played in gambling casinos.Cat--Any big or little tiger or cat hand.Catbird Seat--A position in high-low poker that assures a player at least half the pot.Catch--To be dealt a certain card or hand.usually a desirable card or hand.Chalk Hand--An almost certain winner.Chase--To stay against a better hand.Cheater--A player who intentionally violates the rules to gain advantage unavailable to others.Check--To pass without betting.Check Blind (Check in the Dark)--To check without looking at one's own cards.Check Cop--A paste palmed in a cheater's hand and used to steal poker chips or to hold out cards.Check Copping--To steal poker chips.Check Raise--To check and then subsequently raise in the same round of betting.Chicago--Seven-card stud in which the hand with the highest spade wins half the pot.Chicago Pelter--A kilter.Chicken Picken--A game with eleven cards--two cards in hand and nine on the table in rows of three.http://www.neo-tech.com/poker/appendixc.html (9 of 53)9/17/2004 12:28:01 PMPoker Book, GlossaryChink Ink--A special ink used by cheaters to mark the edge of cards.Chip--Money represented by a plastic disc.Chip Along--To bet the smallest amount possible.Chip Declaration--To use chips in declaring for high or low.Chip In--To call a small bet.Chipping--Betting.Choice Pots--Dealer's choice.Cinch Hand--A certain winner (A Lock, an Immortal).Cincinnati--A ten-card game with five in each hand and five face-up for everyone's use (Lame Brains).Cincinnati Liz--Like Cincinnati, except the lowest face-up card is wild.Clam--A dollar.Class--Rank of a poker hand.Closed Card--A concealed card in one's hand.Closed Game--A game barred to newcomers or outsiders.Closed Hand--The concealed cards in one's hand as in draw poker.Closed Poker--Any form of poker in which all cards are dealt face-down.Close to the Chest--To play tight (Close to the Belly).Club Poker--Poker played in public card clubs.(See Gardena, California.)C-Note--A hundred-dollar bill.Coffee Housing--To act oppositely to one's emotions or situation.http://www.neo-tech.com/poker/appendixc.html (10 of 53)9/17/2004 12:28:01 PMPoker Book, GlossaryCold Deck--(1) A deck from which poor hands are being dealt.(2) A prestacked deck.Cold Feet--A description for a player wanting to quit the game early.Cold Hands--(1) Showdown hands.(2) A run of poor hands.Cold Turkey--A pair of kings, back to back, on the first two cards in five-card stud.Collection or Axe--See Time Cut.Collusion--Two or more players working together to cheat other players.Come--See On the Come.Come In--To call.Come Off--To break up a lower-value hand to draw for a higher-value hand.Commerce--A three-card game with three cards in the widow.Common Card (Communal Card)--An exposed card for use in every player's hand.Consecutive Declaration--A rule for declaring high-low hands in consecutive order.Contract--To declare for high or low at the conclusion of split-pot poker.Contract Poker--High-low split-pot poker with oral declarations.Cop--To steal chips from the pot.Corner Card--An eight-card game--five cards in hand and three on the table, with the last card up andall like it as wild.Corner Flash--To tear off a corner of a foreign card and to flash it as a real card in one's hand.Cosmetics--Preparations such as ashes, waxes, abrasives, aniline pencils, and luminous inks used bycheaters for marking cards (Daub).Counter--(1) One chip.(2) A player who continuously counts his chips.Count Cards--The jack, king, and queen (Court Cards, Face Cards, Picture Cards).http://www.neo-tech.com/poker/appendixc.html (11 of 53)9/17/2004 12:28:01 PMPoker Book, GlossaryCoup--A brilliant play.Cowboy--A king.Crank--To deal.Crazy Otto--Five-card stud with the lowest card as wild.Crimp (Bridge)--To bend and hump the upper or lower section of the deck to make a false or an illegalcut.(See Debone)Crisscross--Same as Southern Cross except five cards are laid out with the center one wild.Crooked-Honest System (C-H System)--The system of two cheaters in partnership: One catches astrong hand, and he signals the other to raise, thus squeezing all callers (Cross Life, Crossfire).Cross (The Cross)--Like Cincinnati, except the five cards are in a cross formation with the center cardand all similar cards as wild.Crosscards--A ten-hand poker solitaire game (Patience Poker).Crossfire--See Crooked-Honest System.Crossover--A combination of draw and stud poker involving wild cards.Cull--To arrange or cluster good cards together for cheating.Curfew--The agreed-upon quitting lime.Curse of Mexico--The deuce of spades.Curse of Scotland--The nine of diamonds.Customer--An opponent who calls.Cut the Cards--Putting the bottom cards of a deck on top of the deck.Cut the Pot--Money withdrawn from pots for a purpose, such as to pay for refreshments.http://www.neo-tech.com/poker/appendixc [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]

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