Turning Poker Pro is a Family Decision: Pat and Laura Poels
A year ago, when then 37 year old Pat Poels, a Ticketmaster Vice-President in Phoenix, told his wife, Laura, that he wanted to quit his nice secure, well paying job with benefits to become a poker pro, she A - fainted, B - grabbed the three boys and ran home to her family, or C - enthusiastically said, “Go for it, Honey, because the 2005 World Series of Poker will have record attendance, record payouts, and I think you are a cinch to beat 698 other players and win $270,100 in the Omaha High-Low Event,” or words to that effect.
Well, Laura didn’t faint and she didn’t grab the kids and run…
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Poker slang:
- DRAW - [1] A class of poker games characterized by players being dealt 5 cards face-down and later having the opportunity to replace some of the original 5. "Draw poker" and "Five-card draw" are examples of usage. [2] In stud and Hold'em games, the set of cards that will be dealt later can be collectively called "the draw". [3] To discard some number of cards and have dealt an equal number of replacements.
- MAIN POT - The main pot, as related to one or more side pots, when there are one or more all-in player(s). The main pot is the one in which all active players participate.
- LIMIT POKER - A poker game wherein the amount to be bet is fixed, or at most variable within a prescribed minimum and maximum. Ant.: NO-LIMIT POKER.
- CHASE - To continue in a hand, often at poor odds, in the hopes of catching a much better hand. "He called, chasing the flush.".
- BACK DOOR - Applies to a hand that was made in the last card or two, specifically not a hand the player was originally planning on having. Most often applied to straights and flushes.
- PROP - Also PROPOSITION PLAYER. An employee of the gaming establishment whose primary purpose is to keep enough players at a table to prevent breaking up the game for lack of players. Unlike SHILLs "props" make a small hourly wage but play with their own money, winning or losing based on their skill.
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