In and unopened or uncalled pot won by the blind or the big blind if there are two blinds, the players is said to have gotten a walk or a ‘walk in the park.’ In the South this is also referred to as a “Ground Skinner” or at least that is what tournament director par excellance Johnny Grooms calls it. Strictly speaking it is any uncalled pot won by the opener or the biggest blind. We have also heard it referred to as lemon juice but we can’t figure that one out.
Walk or walking also refers to a player being away from the table during a hand. Card rooms have different rules on how long you can “walk” for and many rooms also have the Third Man Walking rule, invented by tournament director Jimmy Sommerfeld. This rule simply says that the third player to leave a table, making that table severely short-handed, does not get the same allowable time to walk. Usually if you are the “third man” and are gone more than 5 minutes, your seat can be given away to someone on the wait list.
There are a couple of ways to “save” at the poker table. Tournament players will recognize the term because it is a way of insuring a win or a break even in the tournament. Often when the tournament gets close to the money the players will offer a save, which means that everyone gets there buy-in back. Say 9 players are left and 5 get paid. The players may agree to a “save” so that place 6 thru 9 will get their buy-ins back. This money usually comes out of the large first place prize or perhaps first and second.
