| 单词 | table stake |
| 释义 | > as lemmastable stake table stake n. Poker (in plural) a game of poker in which only the money a player has on the table at the start of a hand may be used to bet in that hand; (also, chiefly in plural) the money a player has on the table available to bet. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > poker > [noun] > stake blind1857 straddle1864 table stake1874 raise1921 1874 W. B. Dick Amer. Hoyle (ed. 8) 183 It..may save much time, for each player to expose his capital and play ‘table stakes’; this is now Club-House usage. 1882 Dover (Ohio) Weekly Argus 18 May 2/8 It was a big game, ‘$5 call $25’ and table stakes. 1885 Encycl. Brit. XIX. 283/1 The modern usage is to play table stakes; i.e., each player puts up such an amount as he pleases at the commencement of each deal, and he cannot be raised more than he has on the table; but he has the option of making good from his pocket a previous raise which exceeds his table stake. 1910 J. London Burning Daylight i. 13 In that early Yukon day, no one dreamed of playing table-stakes. A man was good in a game for all that he possessed, no matter where his possessions. 1999 J. May Shut Up & Deal 3 In the sixties and seventies pokers was nearly always played No-Limit, or table stakes. 2000 B. McNally How to play Poker & Win Gloss. 148 Rat hole , to pocket part of one's table stakes secretly. It is considered unethical to take money off the playing surface. < as lemmas |
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