Re: Four-flushing (was Re: arrrgh!)

Ed Brayton (cynic@net-link.net)
Thu, 29 Oct 1998 17:59:40 -0500

Rick Strickert wrote:
>
> On Thu, 29 Oct 1998, Ed Brayton wrote:
>
> > And I've still never figured out what the hell "four-flushing" is,...
>
> According to Webster's New World Dictionary:
>
> four-flush, vi.... 2. (Colloq.) to pretend to be, have, or intend
> something so as to deceive; bluff.
>
> It comes from stud poker (where 4 of the 5 cards are dealt face up) in
> which one bluffs with the four visible cards of the same suit instead of
> all five for a true flush.

Interesting. I'm a serious player who is planning on entering the World
Series of Poker next year, but I've never heard the term. In poker
terms, this would be called "representing". Thanks for looking it up. I
still think it has more to do with the amount of scatalogical material
being dumped on the list by Joseph, and the subsequent difficulty in
getting it to stop stinking up the place.

Ed Brayton