Navy man wins poker championship
A Navy man stationed in Honolulu has won $1 million in an on-line poker championship.
Ensign Santino Sgambelluri did not realize the championship round of the game would be played in the Bahamas until he got an e-mail message telling him he was one of the 10 finalists, the Honolulu Advertiser reported.
He took the last hand on Sunday with a pair of eights to emerge the grand champion in the “No Limit Texas Hold ‘Em” competition.
Sgambelluri said he has been playing poker for 10 years…
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Poker dictionary:
- COMPUTER HAND - Texas Hold'em hole cards of Q-7 offsuit. More generically, any hand that computer analysis/simulation determines is positive but turns out to be difficult to play in practice.
- FLUSH - A poker hand consisting of five cards all one suit.
- HOOK - A Jack. So named because the "J" resembles a hook.
- COLD CALL - Calling both a bet and raise at the same time, as opposed to calling a bet then later calling a raise made after the call.
- NO-LIMIT POKER - A game where there is no maximum bet; a player can wager any amount (perhaps above some minimum) up to whatever money is on the table in front of him.
- ONE-EYED - The jack of hearts, jack of spades or king of diamonds. So named because the characters are drawn in profile, thus showing only one eye.
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