[Hoss1193]

Al, thx for your post, I appreciate it. Your question and some of the replies just piqued my curiosity, so I started rummaging through my books trying to find the earliest reference to the term.

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...you had a look in SS1 and stated something as a fact that some had earlier said differently.

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If you're referring to Phydaux's comment above, I just want to point out that my specific reference was to Bobby Baldwin's Limit Hold 'Em section. Phydaux (I think) was referring to Doyle's discussion of NLHE in the same book, where his observation is probably perfectly valid (been a long time since I read it, don't specifically remember).