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
Betting in poker betting structure calls for two blinds: the player after the dealer blinds about half of what would be a normal bet, and the next player blinds what would be a whole bet. This two-blind structure, sometimes with antes, is the dominating structure of play for community card poker games such as Texas hold-em. Sometimes only one blind is used (often informally as a "price of winning" the previous hand), and sometimes three are used (this is sometimes seen in Omaha). In the case of three blinds (usually one quarter, one quarter, and half a normal bet amount), the first blind