April Gambling-Word-Chain CONTEST - WINNER ANNOUNCED!

Posts: 647 · Posted: 30.04.2009, 07:30

(Single) ZERO Roulette

Posts: 2787 · Posted: 30.04.2009, 07:57

Advertise [Poker]<<<<<<To make a bluff with the deliberate intention of being exposed as a loose player. Advertising usually means showing down a mediocre hand, to give the impression that you play overly loose or that you play a generally weak game. The idea is that other players will then give you more action when you make a legitimate hand. Since people are bad at revising first impressions, this potentially beneficial effect can be long-lasting. Typical advertising plays in hold'em might be to show down top pair with a weak kicker (e.g., K2), middle pair, or a gut shot draw that missed. These hands have marginal intrinsic value, but playing them early in a session might pay off later. Of course, it's best to advertise if you actually want to be called down more often, e.g., at an especially tight table. At a table full of calling stations, it might be unnecessary or even harmful. Advertising can also mean anything you do at the poker table to manipulate how other players assess you.

Posts: 647 · Posted: 30.04.2009, 08:23

Bad Beat (when your good hand gets beaten by an even better hand)

Posts: 2787 · Posted: 30.04.2009, 08:26

Caesar [Poker]<<The king of diamonds.

Posts: 647 · Posted: 30.04.2009, 08:55

Deuces Wild Video Poker

Posts: 2787 · Posted: 30.04.2009, 09:36

Early Bet [Poker]<<<<The first bet in a stud game, often set artificially low, that is, lower than the normal betting limits for the game, and often a forced bet, one made by, for example, in seven-card stud, the lowest face-up card showing. In a $2-$4 game, the lowest face-up card on the first round (at the point that two face-down cards and one face-up card have been dealt) might be required to make a 50-cent early bet. Sometimes called bring-in bet.

Posts: 647 · Posted: 30.04.2009, 12:32

Floorman

Posts: 2787 · Posted: 30.04.2009, 13:46

Gamble [Poker]<<<<1) Loose play, or the desire to play other than tight. "He must have a lot of gamble in him, because he never lets any of it out." Also, bounce, jump.2) Play loosely. Note : This word has special meaning among poker players, and is different from the more generalized definition of the word as found in most dictionaries.

Posts: 647 · Posted: 30.04.2009, 15:27

Hearts

Posts: 2787 · Posted: 30.04.2009, 16:17

Ice [Poker]<<<<<A cold deck (A deck, presumably with preset hands in it (usually with several good hands, the best of which will go to the dealer or his confederate), surreptitiously substituted by a cheat for the deck he is supposed to be dealing.). So called because, after cards are dealt for awhile, they warm a bit to the touch, while a cold deck actually feels cool, or, by extension, like ice

Posts: 647 · Posted: 30.04.2009, 16:36

Junket (A casino junket, where gamblers are flown or bussed to an area where legalized gambling is available and booked into a hotel-casino, both at the junket company's expense, in exchange for a cut of the gamblers' turnover from the casino)

Posts: 2787 · Posted: 30.04.2009, 17:05

Keep it or Shove it [Poker]<<<<<A form of five-card stud, found only in home games, a high-low game in which, after each player has been dealt one down card, each player gets a choice, in order, on each succeeding card. When each player has one down card, there is a betting round. The dealer then offers a card off the deck to the first player. If the player wants that card, he keeps it. If he does not want it, he immediately gets the next card off the deck, and the first card is offered to the second player, who has the same options. He can take the card, or immediately get the next card off the deck, in which case that card is offered to the third player, and so on. This continues until everyone has one up card, at which point there is a second round of betting. Any card that goes all the way around the table without stopping at anyone, including the dealer, becomes dead. After the betting has been equalized, the operation starts all over, with a card being offered in turn to each player. After each time of each player having the same number of up cards another round of betting comes. After each player has four up cards, each player has the opportunity of replacing an up card with an up card, or the down card with another down card (the twist), followed again, of course, by another round of betting, and then a declaration, and then the determination of the two winners. This game is sometimes called take it or leave it, shove 'em along, or push. It is also sometimes called pass the trash, although that name is more often reserved for Anaconda.

Posts: 647 · Posted: 30.04.2009, 18:45

Las Vegas

Posts: 2787 · Posted: 30.04.2009, 19:43

Match Lights [Poker]<<<<In a home game, a situation that comes up when a player is light (Short of the complete bet. "He's light by $20." Also called shy.). In some home games, not played for table stakes, when a player does not have enough chips to continue betting in a pot, that player withdraws chips from the pot equal to the amount of the betting beyond his chips, (usually) stacking them neatly in front of him. These are called lights. (To so withdraw chips is called go light.) At the end of the hand, if the player does not win the pot, he buys enough chips to cover his lights. He then matches his lights, that is, puts the lights into the pot plus an equivalent amount of chips from the ones he has just bought.

Posts: 647 · Posted: 30.04.2009, 19:49

No-Limit