Poker Whiz Sartori Hopes to Deal an Ace in Music
The maverick musician from Buffalo, N.Y., travels the country singing his songs and raking in the chips. Thirty-year-old Tom Sartori is using his fame at the poker table to boost his career onstage and in the recording business. “The publicity has been helpful, ” Sartori said last week while in town competing with 450 other poker players in the Doyle Brunson North American Poker Championship, a World Poker Tour event, at the Bellagio. He was ousted about halfway through, but picked up $20,000 in …
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Poker jargon:
- BACK DOOR - Applies to a hand that was made in the last card or two, specifically not a hand the player was originally planning on having. Most often applied to straights and flushes.
- BARN - A FULL HOUSE, three of a kind and a pair.
- INSIDE STRAIGHT - Four cards to a straight, where only one rank will complete the hand. E.g., 4-5-6-8 is an inside straight since only a 7 will fill (i.e., complete) the hand. Often called a GUT-SHOT. Compare: BOBTAIL STRAIGHT, OPEN-ENDED STRAIGHT.
- LATE POSITION - For a particular betting round, a player who does not have to act until most of the other players have acted.
- KICKER - In hands containing pairs and trips, the highest card not matched. In draw games, sometimes a card kept for deception purposes.
- ALL-IN - To have all of one's chips in the pot. A player who is all-in cannot be forced out of the pot by more betting, but is only eligible to win that portion of the pot he has contributed to. Generally, a SIDE POT is created each time a player is all-in.
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