WPT Event Will Have WSOP Champs In Attendance
Soon the 2005 poker tournament season will be at an end, and in less than three weeks the 2006 poker tournament season will begin. One of the very first main events will be part of the World Poker Tour, set to take place in the Caribbean.
The PokerStars Caribbean Adventure begins January 4th and runs through January 11th, held at the famous Atlantis Resort and Casino. In attendance will be the last three world champions from the World Series of Poker, all three of whom owe a debt of gratitude to the event sponsor, Poker Stars.
Chris Moneymaker, the man thought to help ignite the poker fever that still grips the world, won the WSOP in 2003 after winning his $10,000 seat via an online event at Pokerstars.com…
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Useful poker information:
- DEAD MONEY - Money contributed to the pot by players who have folded.
- 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.
- 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.
- FOURTH STREET - In stud poker, the fourth card dealt to each player. Sometimes used to refer to the fourth community card dealt in Hold'em, although the more common term for this is TURN (q.v.).
- TABLE STAKES - A standard rule whereby during a hand players can only bet the money they have on the table. If the bet to a player is more than the player's stack, that player may call with all his chips and be eligible to win only that portion of the pot he contributed to equally. A side pot is created, for which only the remaining players may compete.
- BRODERICK CRAWFORD - In Hold'em, hole cards of 10-4. From the 1950s TV series "Highway Patrol", starring Broderick Crawford.
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