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The synonym to "card sharp", "blackleg", when used with reference to card-playing and swindlers, has pejorative connotations. [ 1 ] A card sharp or shark (by either of the gambling-related definitions) may be a " rounder " who travels, seeking out high-stakes games in which to gamble.
Terms created specifically for the game of poker will often be hyphenated if they contain multiple words, as the words may not make sense outside the context of poker and so have to be explicitly linked. For example: "pot-limit", "fixed-limit" and "spread-limit" "high-low" "bring-in", "buy-in"
In high-low split games, to win both the high and the low halves of the pot. second barrel See barreling second pair In community card poker games, a pair of cards of the second-top rank on the board. Second pair is a middle pair, but not necessarily vice versa. Compare with bottom pair, top pair sell
In French, it means "beginning." The English meaning of the word exists only when in the plural form: [faire] ses débuts [sur scène] (to make one's débuts on the stage). The English meaning and usage also extends to sports to denote a player who is making their first appearance for a team or at an event. décolletage a low-cut neckline ...
To achieve a score so high it resets the in-game score counter back to 0, often used in older arcade games. More commonly used nowadays to express the (absolute) 100% completion of a game. Also see rolling the score. clone A game that is similar in design to another game in its genre (e.g., a Doom clone or a Grand Theft Auto clone). Sometimes ...
The following is a glossary of traditional English-language terms used in the three overarching cue sports disciplines: carom billiards referring to the various carom games played on a billiard table without pockets; pool, which denotes a host of games played on a table with six pockets; and snooker, played on a large pocket table, and which has a sport culture unto itself distinct from pool.
A hyphenation algorithm is a set of rules, especially one codified for implementation in a computer program, that decides at which points a word can be broken over two lines with a hyphen. For example, a hyphenation algorithm might decide that impeachment can be broken as impeach-ment or im-peachment but not impe-achment .
High Stakes, an American film directed by Arthur Hoyt; High Stakes, an early talkie and the last film for silent actress Mae Murray; High Stakes, a thriller, debut film of Sarah Michelle Gellar; High Stakes, a TV movie starring Cynthia Gibb