Comments on: Common Poker Jargon (Part III) http://www.hgpa.org/2006/11/13/common-poker-jargon-part-iii/ We're as honest as gambling men can be Wed, 17 Feb 2010 11:33:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Neil http://www.hgpa.org/2006/11/13/common-poker-jargon-part-iii/comment-page-1/#comment-44 Neil Thu, 16 Nov 2006 20:38:29 +0000 http://www.hgpa.org/2006/11/13/common-poker-jargon-part-iii/#comment-44 Since I don't remember your first website, I guess that speaks volumes. I'm guessing it was a lot of photoshopping people's faces onto pornographic pictures or party invites churned out using FlashMX Template A4, but that's just a wild guess.<br/><br/>And how many times do I have to tell you - Always split face cards. Always always always. The upside is that you always* win, but the better upside is that even if you lose, people who lose after you will subsquently blame you for "ruining" the hand. So you really cannot lose.<br/><br/><i>* - may not mean always</i> Since I don’t remember your first website, I guess that speaks volumes. I’m guessing it was a lot of photoshopping people’s faces onto pornographic pictures or party invites churned out using FlashMX Template A4, but that’s just a wild guess.

And how many times do I have to tell you – Always split face cards. Always always always. The upside is that you always* win, but the better upside is that even if you lose, people who lose after you will subsquently blame you for “ruining” the hand. So you really cannot lose.

* – may not mean always

]]> By: Chris "Party" Hardie http://www.hgpa.org/2006/11/13/common-poker-jargon-part-iii/comment-page-1/#comment-43 Chris "Party" Hardie Thu, 16 Nov 2006 20:32:59 +0000 http://www.hgpa.org/2006/11/13/common-poker-jargon-part-iii/#comment-43 For someone whose first "website" was a mishmash of unattributed gems like a chain mail about why Santa Clause would burn up in the stratosphere, the Dancing Shatners animated gif and multiple stick figure movies, you looking down your nose about acceditation is pretty rich.<br/><br/>Now if you'll excuse me, I need to find out if I should split these face cards, and I'm sure the answer lies in these series of tubes. For someone whose first “website” was a mishmash of unattributed gems like a chain mail about why Santa Clause would burn up in the stratosphere, the Dancing Shatners animated gif and multiple stick figure movies, you looking down your nose about acceditation is pretty rich.

Now if you’ll excuse me, I need to find out if I should split these face cards, and I’m sure the answer lies in these series of tubes.

]]> By: Neil http://www.hgpa.org/2006/11/13/common-poker-jargon-part-iii/comment-page-1/#comment-42 Neil Thu, 16 Nov 2006 19:52:35 +0000 http://www.hgpa.org/2006/11/13/common-poker-jargon-part-iii/#comment-42 Having seen you play poker - and more importantly, seen you down booze like a man dying of thirst while you do so - I find it unlikely that you would happen to have near perfect clarity regarding this recollection of the tale some dude told you nine months ago. But, since you're wrong about the origin of the term anyways, I guess I'll let it slide.<br/><br/>At for your snide remark about my trolling the interweb for facts, at least I credited everything I lifted. Unlike *some* people. Having seen you play poker – and more importantly, seen you down booze like a man dying of thirst while you do so – I find it unlikely that you would happen to have near perfect clarity regarding this recollection of the tale some dude told you nine months ago. But, since you’re wrong about the origin of the term anyways, I guess I’ll let it slide.

At for your snide remark about my trolling the interweb for facts, at least I credited everything I lifted. Unlike *some* people.

]]> By: Chris "Party" Hardie http://www.hgpa.org/2006/11/13/common-poker-jargon-part-iii/comment-page-1/#comment-41 Chris "Party" Hardie Thu, 16 Nov 2006 19:45:32 +0000 http://www.hgpa.org/2006/11/13/common-poker-jargon-part-iii/#comment-41 I wouldn't know about Wikipedia, some 60 year old bum imparted that nugget, along with some of his hooch, in a tournament of mine months ago. I frankly don't know anyone who would bother to scour an online encyclopedia for poker nollij...<br/><br/>Oh yeah, sorry - my bad. I wouldn’t know about Wikipedia, some 60 year old bum imparted that nugget, along with some of his hooch, in a tournament of mine months ago. I frankly don’t know anyone who would bother to scour an online encyclopedia for poker nollij…

Oh yeah, sorry – my bad.

]]> By: Neil http://www.hgpa.org/2006/11/13/common-poker-jargon-part-iii/comment-page-1/#comment-40 Neil Thu, 16 Nov 2006 18:42:43 +0000 http://www.hgpa.org/2006/11/13/common-poker-jargon-part-iii/#comment-40 Who the fuck let this Wikipedia plagarizing jagoff in here?<br/><br/>Oh yeah, sorry - my bad. Who the fuck let this Wikipedia plagarizing jagoff in here?

Oh yeah, sorry – my bad.

]]> By: Chris "Party" Hardie http://www.hgpa.org/2006/11/13/common-poker-jargon-part-iii/comment-page-1/#comment-39 Chris "Party" Hardie Thu, 16 Nov 2006 17:26:34 +0000 http://www.hgpa.org/2006/11/13/common-poker-jargon-part-iii/#comment-39 A short sidebar about the origin of the term 'nuts':<br/><br/>As gamblers were (and are) not the most gentlemanly of sorts, a standing rule in poker developed where you couldn't bet anything that you couldn't put on the table. That stopped players from reneging on the terms of a lost pot. So while you couldn't put your house on the table, if you could produce the deed and shove it in with your chips, you were good to go.<br/><br/>If a player was sure his hand was the best out there, he could elect to bet his horse and cart he had outside. As he couldn't very well throw a ton of animal, wood and stone onto the table, he would remove the nuts from his cart's wheels and push them into the pot. Eventually, pulling the nuts off your wheels became synonymous with having the best hand. A short sidebar about the origin of the term ‘nuts’:

As gamblers were (and are) not the most gentlemanly of sorts, a standing rule in poker developed where you couldn’t bet anything that you couldn’t put on the table. That stopped players from reneging on the terms of a lost pot. So while you couldn’t put your house on the table, if you could produce the deed and shove it in with your chips, you were good to go.

If a player was sure his hand was the best out there, he could elect to bet his horse and cart he had outside. As he couldn’t very well throw a ton of animal, wood and stone onto the table, he would remove the nuts from his cart’s wheels and push them into the pot. Eventually, pulling the nuts off your wheels became synonymous with having the best hand.

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