$60 million winner-take-all poker tournament set
LOS ANGELES Six players will compete in a winner-take-all 60 (m) million dollar poker tournament next summer.
It’s believed to be the largest single-day payout in the history of sports on television.
Fox Sports Net and Mansionpoker-dot-net reached agreement on a three-year deal, with the pots growing to 75 (m) million dollars in 2007…
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Poker lexicon:
- DEAD MAN'S HAND - Generically: two pair, aces and eights. Specifically: the black aces, black eights and nine of diamonds. The hand Wild Bill Hickok was holding when he was shot to death.
- TOURNAMENT - A highly structured game involving potentially dozens of tables where all participants pay an entry fee and obtain a fixed number of chips. Once a tournament has started, additional players may not enter. As the game progresses players bust out and are eliminated until only one winner remains.
- FIRE - To make the first bet in a betting round. Used to emphasize that the player bet when a check was possible, showing strength.
- FULL OF - Describes a full house. "Fives full of queens" is 5-5-5-Q-Q.
- ASSAULT RIFLE - In Omaha, hole cards that are A-K-4-7 of any suit(s).
- HOOK - A Jack. So named because the "J" resembles a hook.
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