WPT’s Lyle Berman thinks poker as popular as pro golf on TV
Although his personal tastes run more toward game fishing and skeet shooting, Lyle Berman names another sport as the one poker is most likely to emulate as it evolves: pro golf. Berman, the man who effectively controls the World Poker Tour as the organization’s executive chairman, sees some similarities between the fairways and the green baize, the roughs and the bluffs. As a televised competitive event, “poker is still in its infancy,” Berman said recently at the Gambler’s Book Shop near downtown…
Related World Poker Tour News:
- Legends of Poker: Lyle Berman
- ‘I’m All In’: Lyle Berman’s Life, In His Words
- Doyles Room Feeling The Heat From The SEC
- 2008 WSOP Event #45, $50,000 H.O.R.S.E. Day 3: DeMichele, Greenstein, Negreanu Lead Final 24
- Lakes Entertainment Closes Refinancing Deal
- You must try the poker mind meld
- Take out ambitious poker players by setting traps
- GSN Ready to Host World Poker Tour
- Inside Poker
- Online Poker Site Stats Avail For A Price
- ESPN, poker make a fine pair
- Opinion: Lawyers to Cash in Online Sites’ Ad Settlement
Poker slang:
- FIXED LIMIT - A betting structure where the amount of each bet is a specific fixed quantity. Usually specified as A-B, where A is the amount to bet in the first few betting rounds and B (larger than A) is the amount bet in the later rounds. Related terms: FLAT LIMIT, NO LIMIT, POT LIMIT, SPREAD LIMIT.
- CUT - To break the deck into 2 stacks of at least 5 cards each. Usually performed by the player to the dealer's right to insure that the the deck is not stacked.
- 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.)
- ANTE - A small bet all players are required to make before a hand is dealt. Not all games have an ante. Related terms: BLIND, FORCED BET.
- DEALER'S CHOICE - In home games, a rule that permits the dealer to name which poker game to be played that hand. Often limited to selecting from a list provided.
- OFFSUIT - Not of the same suit. "I held A-Q offsuit" or "The flop was 10-6-2 offsuit". When speaking of 5 or more cards, not all/ of the same suit, i.e., no flush, as in "button had A-K-10-8-7 offsuit."
RSS feed
