Alamo Poker Tour A Success
Take a few poker pros, some online entry winners, mix in local poker players, a smattering of celebrities and sprinkle with professional athletes, and you have a winning recipe for a night of fun. In the case of the new Alamo Poker Tour, it was two nights of fun, and the participants and winners were not the only ones to benefit; the event raised money for the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation (http://www.CFF.org) as well.
The pros included Marcel Luske and Eric Mizrachi from the poker crowd, and Carlos Polk and Dan Henderson from the athlete crowd. Don Felder of the Eagles (the band) was also there at the Palm Springs, CA event…
Related Poker Tournaments News:
- Alamo Poker Tour Has First Winner
- Poker’s Finest “Going to the Alamo” to Support CF Charity
- Cystic Fibrosis Foundation to Host “Alamo Poker Tour Texas Hold’em Poker Challenge”
- Purple Lounge Poker Takes Sweden by Storm — Poker Tour a Roaring Success
- More celebrity poker
- Server problems hamper online poker tourney
- Personnel Added to World Poker Tour
- Savage Finds Home With North American Poker Tour
- Sign up for online poker tourney, chance to win celeb poker seat
- Cystic Fibrosis Foundation to Hold Poker Challenge
- European Small Town Poker Tour Timetable Moved Up
- Grosvenor UK Poker Tour takes off
Poker lexicon:
- FOUR OF A KIND - A hand containing all four cards of the same rank.
- CARDS SPEAK - Winner(s) of the hand are determined by turning their cards face up, the best hand(s) wins (no declaration).
- TOP PAIR - In flop games, having a hole card that matches the highest card on the board.
- SCOOP - To take all of a pot that is normally split, either by winning both halves outright or winning one half when no players qualify for the other half.
- CAP - To cap the betting is to make the last permitted raise in a round.
- RING GAME - A standard game where players can come and go as they choose. The opposite of TOURNAMENT.
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