Fit for a Prince: Ballys-Paris Event Day One
The World Series of Poker Circuit has now come to the Ballys-Paris Casino in Las Vegas. This is the fourth tour stop of the 2005-06 season. The $10,000 buy-in main event attracted 134 entries. The total prize pool amounted to $1,259,600. Nine places will be paid and $453,456 will go to the winner.
This is the first WSOP Circuit event with an official host. In an effort to honor the great poker champions of the past (and future), Harrah’s Entertainment paid tribute to 1998 world poker champion Scotty ‘The Prince’ Nguyen who was designated with the role as official host of the Bally-Paris tournament.
Fittingly, after 11 hours of play on Day One, Scotty Nguyen is the chip leader in his own tournament. It’s hardly a surprise that the flamboyant Nguyen would crash his own party. Raed Abu Kartomy, of Huntington Beach, CA is a close second. Doug Le, who won last year’s Rio Las Vegas circuit event, is third. After 90 players were eliminated on Day On… Continue reading Fit for a Prince: Ballys-Paris Event Day One
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Poker lingo:
- PROP - Also PROPOSITION PLAYER. An employee of the gaming establishment whose primary purpose is to keep enough players at a table to prevent breaking up the game for lack of players. Unlike SHILLs "props" make a small hourly wage but play with their own money, winning or losing based on their skill.
- FLAT LIMIT - A variant of fixed limit where all bets are the same amount.
- OMAHA - A variant of Hold'em where each player receives 4 hole cards and must use exactly two of them (together with 3 of 5 board cards) to make a hand. Often played high-low split with an 8 qualifier for low.
- FOLD - To decline to call a bet, thus dropping out of a hand.
- TOP PAIR - In flop games, having a hole card that matches the highest card on the board.
- MILES OF BAD ROAD - Three of a kind. Prefixed with a number, 3*<N>, to indicate 3 <N>s. Thus "24 miles of bad road" is 3 eights, etc. (This obviously doesn't work for face cards.)
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