Area card ace will ante up in major poker tournament
While Wilburn typically plays online poker, he does manage to play a few games with family and friends in his Moscow home.
Imagine competing with more than 6,000 of the world’s best poker players for millions of dollars in a crowded Las Vegas casino in front of a national television audience.
While few can comprehend such an unfamiliar experience, a 23-year-old Moscow native will be introduced to such a scenario in July. That’s when Wesley Wilburn is scheduled to participate in the 2006 World Series of Poker tournament at the Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino in the heart of Las Vegas.
Wilburn, a senior archeology major at Mississippi State University in Starkville, won a coveted seat to the world’s largest poker tournament last month by outplaying more than 4,500 other online No Limit Hold’em poker players on www.RoyalVegasPoker.com.
His prize was a $10,000 buy-in to the World Series of Poker main event…
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Poker dictionary:
- DOOR [CARD] - A player's first upcard in stud games.
- SEVENTH STREET - The seventh card dealt in 7-card stud.
- 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".
- STEAM - Playing wildly, calling and raising a lot, because one is upset. Compare: ON TILT.
- STUCK - Down a nontrivial amount of money, as in "he's stuck $800".
- LATE POSITION - For a particular betting round, a player who does not have to act until most of the other players have acted.
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