Poker All-Stars Square Off for 2005 Tournament of Champions
LAS VEGAS — (PRESS RELEASE) — Many of the biggest names in poker will descend on Caesars Palace next week to compete for $2 million in total prize money at the 2005 World Series of Poker® Tournament of Champions, Harrah’s Entertainment, Inc. (NYSE: HET) said. The free-roll tournament is expected to feature, among others, the nine millionaires from the 36th annual World Series of Poker’s Main Event final table as they go for another seven-figure payday. A free-roll is an event in which none of the …
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Poker argot:
- TURN - The fourth community card in Hold'em.
- SUICIDE KING - King of Hearts. So named because in the drawing the king appears to be stabbing himself in the head.
- ROLLED UP - In seven-card stud, being dealt three of a kind in the first three cards.
- STRING BET - An unethical and often illegal means of raising whereby a player puts a call-size stack of chips into the pot and, after observing the reactions of the players, then goes back to his stack and puts out more, thus raising.
- WHEEL - A-2-3-4-5. Usually discussed in the context of lowball where it is the best possible hand. Can also refer to a 5-high straight in high games. Also: BICYCLE.
- COMPUTER HAND - Texas Hold'em hole cards of Q-7 offsuit. More generically, any hand that computer analysis/simulation determines is positive but turns out to be difficult to play in practice.
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