Weathering the Storm: Atlantic City’s Showboat WSOP Circuit Main Event Day 1
Former taxi driver and poker local Chris Reslock has the chip lead after Day One.
Five inches of snow and freezing temperatures outside could not keep nearly 100 of the East Coast’s best hold’em players from descending upon Atlantic City to play on the fourth stop of the 2005-06 World Series of Poker tournament circuit. The Showboat Atlantic City, owned and operated by Harrah’s Entertainment, recently opened a state-of- the-art poker room. The WSOP Circuit event is the Showboat’s first attempt at hosting a televised major poker tournament.
Interestingly, the Showboat holds the distinction of being Atlantic City’s first casino in to ever host a poker tournament — which took place back in 1994. Now, eleven years later, poker and the Showboat have jointly entered a new dimension. After a highly-successful series of eight preliminary events, the Showboat’s main event attracted 96 entries. Players are competing for nearly $1 million in prize money.
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Useful poker terms:
- LAY ODDS - To give favorable odds to an opponent.
- LIVE BLIND - The last and largest blind bet may or may not be LIVE. If LIVE, the blind bettor has the option of "raising" his own blind in the event the bet is called around to him. This is normal, and is sometimes referred to as "blinds are live".
- ROLLED UP - In seven-card stud, being dealt three of a kind in the first three cards.
- HOLE CARDS - In Stud and Hold'em, the face-down cards dealt to each player.
- RACE - In tournaments it is sometimes convenient to remove all lower-denomination chips from play, as the remaining players' stacks tend to grow. Small chips are converted to larger chips and any odd chips are "raced off" in the following way: each player with odd chips places them in front of his stack and is dealt one card for each chip. Highest card (rank and suit) takes all the small chips and converts them to higher-denomination chips.
- PASSED OUT. - A hand in which nobody opens. What happens next is a function of the game being played.
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