European Poker Grand Slam set for Next Month

The battle for European poker supremacy is set to take place next month at the Casino Star City in Birmingham and the team-nation representatives are ready to give their all for their home countries.

42 players from France, Northern Ireland, Sweden, Ireland, Scotland, England, and Wales will battle it out for two consecutive days, playing today’s hottest game, No Limit Texas Hold’em. With an event title like Poker Grand Slam, these players are bringing their “A-game,” hoping to take down individual cashes and bragging rights…

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Thu, December 22nd, 2005

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Poker dictionary:

  • SIDE POT - When an active player runs out of money during the course of a hand, the remaining players participate in a second or SIDE POT for the rest of the hand. Additional side pots are possible if several players run out of money at different points in a hand.
  • CASE - The fourth card of a particular rank, as in "he folded the case 9" when describing where all the 9s were in a hand. Comes from the game of Faro where an employee of the house, called the "case keeper". kept track of the number of each rank of card remaining.
  • STACKED [DECK] - A deck that has been arranged to give one player a huge advantage. Also: RIGGED.
  • OVER - A term used in describing two pair or a full house. "Kings over tens" means two pair, kings and tens. "Jacks over", also "Jacks up" describes a hand that is two pair: Jacks with an unspecified lower pair. Also used to describe a full house, distinguishing the three of a kind from the pair. The hand J-J-J-A-A could be described as "Full house, Jacks over Aces".
  • OPEN-HANDED - A category of games characterized by a part of each player's hand being exposed.
  • TRIPS - Three of a kind. In Hold'em the term SET is used when two of the three cards are hole cards.
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