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Woolworth	1) In lowball, a 10-5 hand. 2) In high, two pair, 10s and 5s. 3) In hold 'em, a 10 and 5 as one's first two cards. 4) Any game in which 10s and 5s are wild. 5) A nonstandard hand sometimes given value in a private or home game, five cards 5 to 10 with no pair, which ranks above three of a kind and below a straight. For all definitions 1 to 4, also called dime store; for definitions 2 and 3 only, sometimes also called dime stores. Usage: Comes from the F. W. Woolworth retail chain, individual stores of which were often called five-and-ten-cent stores or five-and-dime stores (and often shortened to dime stores).
Woppitzer	Someone with body odor or bad breath who hangs around card games (on the outside), often offering gratuitous advice and unwanted opinions, commenting on the play, and generally being obnoxious and the worst kind of kibitzer.
Work the Broads	Cheat at cards, particularly three-card monte.
Working the Telegraph	Cheating by sending prearranged signals, say by finger positions similar to the "signing" used by the hearing impaired, or by certain code words and phrases embedded within seemingly ordinary conversation, of a victim's hand to the signaler's confederate. See telegraph.
World Poker Tour	A series of tournaments on the tournament trail, held throughout the year at various casinos and cardrooms and online, the winners of which advance to a $25,000 invitation-only buy-in final event that crowns a world champion. The individual events are shown later on television. Sometimes rendered as the initialism WPT.
World Series of Poker	A Hold 'em tournament with a $10,000 buy-in held every May at Binion's Horseshoe Casino in Las Vegas.
World's Fair	The nuts. Usage: Usually preceded by the "Watch out for this guy. If he's in a pot with you, he'll show you the World's Fair and the Holy City."
Worst Hand	A losing hand.
Worst Likely Hand	The worst holding you might put another player on.
Worst of It	Fighting the odds; usually preceded by take the or have the; a situation in which a wager has an unfavorable return. Opposite of best of it.
WPT	Initialism of World Poker Tour.
Wraparound	In Omaha, a situation in which your four downcards consist of three consecutive cards, which combine with two cards of the flop to form five consecutive cards, so that a large number of cards on the turn or river give you a straight. For example, your downcards are 6-5-4-A, and the flop is 7-8-K. You can make a straight with any of 13 cards, any 6, 5, or 4, three each of which remain, or any 9, of which four remain. Compare with full wrap and inside wrap.
WSOP	Abbreviation for World Series of Poker.
X Marks the Spot	See Crisscross.
Yard	1) $100. 2) A $100 bill.