Jing Xia wins the LIPS Tour Ladies Event at the WSOP Circuit at Bally’s/Paris
Sunday at the World Series of Poker Circuit Event at Paris/Bally’s saw the crowning of two more champions. Tournament #3, $1,000 + $60 buy-in No-limit Hold’em, played its final table and finished in less than four hours. Elliot Howze won the event and collected $65,621 in prize money and received a WSOP Circuit gold championship ring. Las Vegas Pro, Jimmy Tran was first runner up and banks $36,191 for his second place finish. Constantinos Maniatis was third and takes away $19,885.
The second event was the LIPS Tour Ladies No-limit Hold’em tournament that began at 10 AM and continued until a one player had all the chips. It took almost twelve hours of play to declare a winner. The ladies came to play and win. A good turnout produced 169 entries paying the entry fee of $200 + $30. The heads up play began Sunday evening with chip leader, Jing Xia at one end and Nicole Schachrovsky at the other after Nicole eliminated Kandi Kroon in third place. Kandi goes home with an addi… Continue reading Jing Xia wins the LIPS Tour Ladies Event at the WSOP Circuit at Bally’s/Paris
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Useful poker terms:
- TOURNAMENT - A highly structured game involving potentially dozens of tables where all participants pay an entry fee and obtain a fixed number of chips. Once a tournament has started, additional players may not enter. As the game progresses players bust out and are eliminated until only one winner remains.
- ROYAL FLUSH - An ace-high straight flush, the best possible hand in regular poker.
- POSSIBLE [STRAIGHT/FLUSH] - Up cards that quite possibly could lead to a straight and/or a flush.
- OFFSUIT - Not of the same suit. "I held A-Q offsuit" or "The flop was 10-6-2 offsuit". When speaking of 5 or more cards, not all/ of the same suit, i.e., no flush, as in "button had A-K-10-8-7 offsuit."
- HIT - To make a hand or catch a card or cards that improves one's hand. "I hit a gut-shot draw on the river."
- FIXED LIMIT - A betting structure where the amount of each bet is a specific fixed quantity. Usually specified as A-B, where A is the amount to bet in the first few betting rounds and B (larger than A) is the amount bet in the later rounds. Related terms: FLAT LIMIT, NO LIMIT, POT LIMIT, SPREAD LIMIT.
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