Maryland Pet Store Owner Gets Assist From His Cat in Winning Ferrari on Free Online Poker Tournament at PartyPoker.net
Bruce Bartfeld of Churchville, Maryland was playing a free-entry online poker tournament on PartyPoker.net and was running out of chips. The 52-year-old pet store owner says he has his cat Sadie to thank for helping him claw his way back-and right into the seat of a brand new Ferrari F430 Coupe.
“I was really short stacked,” said Bartfeld. “Then Sadie decided to jump up and sit on my lap and my luck changed for the better. They say cats have nine lives; Sadie certainly gave me a lifeline.”
Bartfeld was playing in his first tournament in an online poker room. PartyPoker operates the world’s largest online poker room, PartyPoker.com and its companion play-for-free education site, PartyPoker.net, where Bartfield played in a “freeroll” Texas Hold’em tournament-without spending a penny. The married grandfather of one beat thousands of top players…
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Poker terminology:
- ROYAL FLUSH - An ace-high straight flush, the best possible hand in regular poker.
- RAIL - A barrier dividing the card playing area from a public area.
- 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.
- SPLIT [OPENERS] - In draw poker, to discard one or more openers, usually to draw to a straight or flush. Normally requires the opener to declare the act and retain the discards so that the act of opening can later be validated.
- 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.).
- HOOK - A Jack. So named because the "J" resembles a hook.
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