Veni, Vidi, Vici! Mike Matusow Comes, Sees and Conquers the 2005 WSOP:TOC
It was, quite simply, one of the greatest final tables of all time. It had everything - drama, tragedy, humor, passion, laughter, tears, a fight, a downfall, a comeback, and an ending no one could possibly have predicted.
It was twenty times longer than an episode of “SportsCenter”, eight times longer than the movie “Rounders”, and four times longer than a Super Bowl game. Clocking in at just over 11 hours, it was perhaps the only final table where the standing-room only crowd departed the arena feeling completely exhausted — yet wanting, even screaming for more.
It was a final table which had nine compelling stories. The second place finisher in the Main Event at this year’s World Series of Poker (WSOP); a player who arrived at the final table as chip leader at his last big tournament, busted out a disappointing fifth; a player who has grinded out a living for ten years on the tournament trail but who has yet to earn a televise… Continue reading Veni, Vidi, Vici! Mike Matusow Comes, Sees and Conquers the 2005 WSOP:TOC
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Useful poker terms:
- MUCK - [1] A collection of face-down cards near the dealer composed of discards, i.e., folded hands, burns and discards for drawing purposes. [2] To throw one's cards into the muck, thus folding.
- SMALL BLIND - In games with two blinds the first blind is the SMALL BLIND because it is usually one-half (or less) the second or large blind.
- FREE CARD - A card dealt after all players checked in a betting round.
- DEAD MAN'S HAND - Generically: two pair, aces and eights. Specifically: the black aces, black eights and nine of diamonds. The hand Wild Bill Hickok was holding when he was shot to death.
- TAPPED [OUT] - Out of money. Can refer to a player running out of money in the course of a hand, thus still active for the main pot; or can refer to a player who has lost his bankroll and can no longer play.
- PASSED OUT. - A hand in which nobody opens. What happens next is a function of the game being played.
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