Sailor here is online poker champ
A pair of 8s was worth $1 million to a Pearl Harbor man who emerged from a field of nearly 5,000 players to win a free online poker tournament.
Navy Ensign Santino Sgambelluri, 32, returned to Hawai’i this week after dominating a 10-player, “No-Limit Texas Hold ‘Em” final Sunday in the Bahamas.
“It hasn’t sunk in yet. It’s quite a feat,” he said yesterday. “I don’t even know how to describe it”…
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Poker lexicon:
- JOKER - A 53rd card in the deck, distinct from the others, used as a wild card or as a BUG.
- SPLIT [THE POT] - To split the pot between two or more players. Related term: QUARTER.
- CHECK RAISE - To check initially, then raise a bet made later on in the same betting round. Frequently a sign of strength, but may be a bluff.
- NUT / NUTS - The best possible hand of a given class. Not a LOCK unless all cards have been dealt. The "nut flush" is the highest possible flush, but might still lose to, e.g., a full house. Usually used in Hold'em games.
- FULL HOUSE - A hand consisting of 3-of-a-kind and a (different) pair.
- 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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