action button A marker similar to a kill button, on which a player places an extra forced bet. action A player's turn to act a willingness to gamble or a bet, along with all the calls of that bet. When done intentionally, this is often referred to as 'angle shooting.' See angle shooting. Sometimes players act out of turn intentionally to get a read out of other players. acting out of turn A player in poker that either announces their actions or physically plays before their turn (checks, folds etc.).

act To make a play (check, bet, call, raise, or fold) at the required time, compare to in turn. (The title of 'Rounders' refers to people who earn their living at poker.) As the puffy-eyed, scruffy Worm, Norton is a walking personification of self-defeat: He's a liar and a cheat, but his essential vulnerability keeps peeking out - he's a sweetie with a psychotic edge.A ace in the hole One of the hole cards is an ace ace-to-five, ace-to-six Methods of evaluating low hands.

Will Mike return to the life for keeps? Or will he join the suckers 'humping the graveyard shift wondering how they came up short'? Mike's choice makes up the ballast of 'Rounders,' one of the chief strengths of which is its refusal to resort to easy moral answers.ĭamon plays Mike with the same fluoridated cleanliness he brought to the title character of 'Good Will Hunting,' meaning he's decent enough to be a preppy but knowing enough to be a professional card shark. Worm has already set up a game with some country-club suckers and needs Mike to double-team them, and Mike makes a good show of demurring, for a minute or two. But the straight-and-narrow routine is interrupted when Mike's best friend, Worm (Edward Norton), is released from prison.

Rounders meaning poker