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Old 11-13-2007, 02:13 AM
Poshua Poshua is offline
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Default Re: Where does the term straddle come from?

I have a guess: the player is "straddling" the action because he gets to act first and last before the flop. Of course, the first "action" is a voluntary blind raise, but I think that could still be considered acting first.
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