‘The Master’ Passes Phan In POY Race
The action at this year’s Five Diamond World Poker Classic has already been intense and, with three tournaments left to play in the event (including the $15,000 Championship Event for the World Poker Tour), poker veteran Men “The Master” Nguyen has done what might have been inconceivable just a few short months ago. Nguyen has passed former leader John Phan for first on the Poker Player of the Year charts!
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Poker slang:
- LATE BLIND - In addition to "regular" blinds, some games allow a player (particularly a new one) to post a blind bet in return for the right to enter the game immediately and act last on the first betting round. The amount of the blind is determined by house rules, usually somewhere between the last blind and double the last blind. It is frequently a LIVE BLIND.
- BIG BLIND - A blind bet, usually a raise of an earlier blind which would be called the SMALL BLIND. In limit poker, the BIG BLIND is usually the size of the minimum bet on the first round of betting.
- CAP - To cap the betting is to make the last permitted raise in a round.
- SET - In Hold'em, three of a kind where two of the cards are hole cards.
- PAY OFF - Calling a bet with little expectation of winning, unless the opponent is bluffing.
- 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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