Dead man's hand in popular culture it, suggesting to the viewer he is familiar with the implication of those cards. On "The X-Files" episode entitled "Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose", the title character is playing poker with Agent Scully and is seen holding a full house of aces and eights (the ace of hearts being the fifth card). In "The Assassin" (Season 3 Episode 11) of the television series "The Pretender", poker plays a key role, including the appearance of the dead man's hand at the end of the episode. In a first episode of "Quantum Leap" ("How The Tess Was Won") a character attempts to rig
Cheating in poker online cardrooms: PokerStars, PartyPoker, and Full Tilt Poker. Angle shooting is engaging in actions that may technically be within the scope of the rules of the game, but that are considered unethical or unfair to exploit or take advantage of another player. For example, an angle shooter might motion as if he were folding his hand to induce other players to fold theirs out of turn. One form of angle shooting which is exclusive to online poker is to abuse the disconnect protection (DP) rules most sites have in place. DP is a rule exclusive to online poker whereby if