All In With the Bad Boy of Poker
LAS VEGAS - No one seems surprised that world-class poker champ Phil Hellmuth Jr. has shown up late to his own kickoff seminar at his recent three-day Fantasy Poker Camp at Caesars Palace. This is part of Phils shtick. Bursting with confident arrogance, he can be counted on to be defiantly tardy even to multimillion-dollar tournaments, letting his chip stack slowly and dangerously erode with missed hands until he eventually shows up to kick the butts of everyone else at the table. When Hellmuth…
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Casino poker language:
- OPENERS - Cards in a hand that qualify a player to open the betting.
- ROLLED UP - In seven-card stud, being dealt three of a kind in the first three cards.
- STRAIGHT - A hand consisting of 5 cards in sequence but not in suit.
- WHITE BLACKBIRD - A hand so astonishingly rare as to be unworthy of the opponents' consideration, e.g., being dealt a pat royal flush in 5-card draw.
- GOOD GAME - A game with players worse than you so that you can expect to win a lot of money.
- 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".
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