Wire Poker
word type: noun
- The beloved HBO show The Wire is known for many things, among them a couple of unique portraits of poker games in Baltimore.
Mayor Royce's Poker Game
During his campaign for re-election, Mayor Clarence Royce employs a tactic for fund-raising that involves organizing a poker game in which his supporters dump chips to him in order to finance his campaign.
In private conversations away from the game, Royce's campaign contributors bemoan the disgraceful nature of having to fold full houses and flushes to the honorable mayor.
Marlo's Game
In this sequence from The Wire, drug kingpin Marlo Stanfield winds up experiencing some variance in a private poker game:
Related Terms:
- High Stakes Poker
- Mixed Game
- Poker2Nite
- Shorthanded
- Poker After Dark
- 2m2mm
- I Bet You
- Set Under Set
- Nosebleed
- Kojack
