World Poker Tour Breaks Record
LOS ANGELES - (PRESS RELEASE) — When Foxwood’s World Poker Finals concludes tonight, it will mark the largest prize pool in the history of a World Poker Tour regular season event. With a record 783 players competing in the $10,000 buy-in event, $5 million of the nearly $8 million prize pool will be awarded to the six final table players, with more than $2 million going to first place and more than $1 million going to second place.Season IV of the World Poker Tour continues to make poker history…
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- New Record at the World Series of Poker
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- World Poker Tour Champion Named
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Poker glossary:
- GUT SHOT - A draw to an inside straight, as in 2-3-4-6.
- 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.
- CASE - The fourth card of a particular rank, as in "he folded the case 9" when describing where all the 9s were in a hand. Comes from the game of Faro where an employee of the house, called the "case keeper". kept track of the number of each rank of card remaining.
- FREE CARD - A card dealt after all players checked in a betting round.
- STAND OFF - To call a raise. "Opener raises, I stand off".
- STUD - Any of several poker games in which some of each players' cards are exposed.
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