Preface - The Game

No Limit Texas Hold'em - Poker game in which each player receives two cards facedown, to be combined with five community cards to make the best five-card hand.

Terms:

-All-in - having all your chips in the pot.
-Burn and turn (Burn) - What the dealer does before revealing the flop, fourth street, and fifth street.
-Call - to match an opponents bet but not to raise.
-Fifth Street - fifth and final community card.
-Flop- first three community cards, exposed simultaneously.
-Fourth Street - fourth community card.
-Raise- to not only match an opponent's bet, but increase it by at least 100 percent.

Notes:

-Almost all hands described are from the 2001 World Series of Poker, as written about by James McManus in Positively Fifth Street.

-All of the above terms appear as described by Mr. McManus.

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