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  Poker Terms
Various poker hands have been given many names, and these are listed in List of slang names for poker hands.
Especially in lowball, two hands very nearly tied that must be compared in detail to determine a winner, for example, 8-6-5-3-2 versus 8-6-5-3-A. The act of counting the cards that remain in the stub after all cards have been dealt, done by a dealer to ensure that a complete deck is being used.
A dead man's hand is the famous hand Wild Bill Hickok was holding when he was shot and killed in 1877, consisting of a pair of aces and a pair of eights of the fl suits (spades and clubs); but often refers to any two pairs of aces and eights.
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 Gambling Academy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Playing a drawing hand that will lose even if successful (a state of affairs usually only discovered after the fact or in a tounament when two or more players are "all in" and they show their cards).
A hand that is ruled unplayable because of an irregularity, such as being found with too many or two few cards, having been mixed with cards of other players or the muck, having fallen off the table, etc. Compare to "dead hand".
A multi-table poker tournament in which the prize is a free entrance to a satellite tournament or a tournament in which all the top finishers gain entrance to a larger tournament.
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 Gambling Software
Individual card ranks are often used to evaluate hands that contain no pairs or other special combinations, or to rank the kickers of otherwise equal hands.
For ease of explanation, hands are shown here neatly arranged, but a poker hand has the same value no matter what order the cards are received in.
Sometimes straights and/or flushes count in determining which hand is highest but not in determining which hand is lowest (being reckoned as a no-pair hand in the latter instance), so that a player with such a holding can win both ways and thus take the entire pot.
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 Texas hold 'em hands
In the poker game Texas hold 'em, a player's hand consists of two hole cards, which belong solely to the player and remain hidden from the other players.
The player's "playing hand", which will be compared against that of each competing player, is the best 5-card poker hand available from his two hole cards and the five community cards.
It is typical to abbreviate suited hands in hold 'em by affixing an "s" to the hand, as well as to abbreviate non-suited hands with an "o" (for offsuit).
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 Know Your Poker Jargon   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
A dead man's hand is the famous hand Wild Bill Hickok was holding when he was shot and killed in 1877.
The act of staying in a hand in hopes of improving, usually to a straight or flush--on a draw.
A rule that states that only money on the table at the beginnin of a hand is playable, and that a player may not retrieve money from his or her wallet or purse during the play of a hand.
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 Poker Jargon
lowball, two hands very nearly tied that must be compared in detail to determine a winner, for example, 8-6-5-3-2 versus 8-6-5-3-A. The act of counting the poker cards that remain in the stub after all poker cards have been dealt, done by a dealer to ensure that a complete deck is being used.
A player's hand that is not entitled to participate in the deal for some reason, such as having been fouled by touching another player's poker cards, being found to contain the wrong number of poker cards, being dealt to a player who did not make the appropriate forced bets, etc.
A hand that is ruled unplayable because of an irregularity, such as being found with too many or two few poker cards, having been mixed with poker cards of other players or the muck, having fallen off the table, etc. Compare "dead hand".
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 names of poker hands   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
This is the hand held by Wild Bill Hickok when he was shot and killed, and plays a relatively wide cultural role.
So called because it's one of the strongest hands in the game (only beaten by higher straight flushes).
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 poker hand - Absolute Poker Prince - Listings Page: 3
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Robert Novak: It's a perfectly valid poker hand.
The word hand in the game of poker is used to mean any of the following:...
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aces and spaces A hand with one pair of aces, and nothing else.
Anna Kournikova In Texas Hold 'Em, referring to a player who is dealt A-K for his or her pocket cards and never having the hand improve.
This parodies tennis player Anna Kournikova in that the hand looked good, but didn’t win.
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 poker slang - Absolute Poker Prince - Listings Page: 3
Poker Terms - Glossary of Poker Slang, at thepokerproject.com
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 Texas Hold'em Poker Rules   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
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Draw poker (including five-card draw and deuce-to-seven low)
Stud poker (including five-card stud and seven-card stud)
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"Broadway", a five-card poker hand including Ace through Ten in consecutive order.
See: List of slang names for poker hands
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