Poker players converge at Texas Hold ‘Em tournament
The Texas Hold ‘Em craze gets serious this weekend when more than 500 players are expected to converge on Cocoa Beach. When the smoke clears on Sunday evening, only one will advance to the Travel Channel’s World Poker Tour finals in Reno, Nev.
“We’ve got some really strong players coming in,” says Bob Danoff, founder and president of Final Table Tour, which started last summer in Brevard County. “Some of these guys have won 13, 14 times, and they’ll be getting extra chips.”
The showdown is at the Cocoa Beach Holiday Inn, which has been drawing between 60 and 110 players…
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Useful poker information:
- FAVORITE - Before all the cards are dealt, a hand that figures to be the winner. Ant: UNDERDOG.
- STAKE - The amount of a player's BUY-IN, or the amount of money they are willing to play with in a given session. Compare: BANKROLL.
- REPRESENT - Implying, by one's betting style, that one has a particular hand.
- SHILL - A card room employee who plays with House money, and does not share in any of his (her) winnings or losses. Shills are used to facilitate starting games, and keeping them going. Compare: PROP.
- INSIDE STRAIGHT - Four cards to a straight, where only one rank will complete the hand. E.g., 4-5-6-8 is an inside straight since only a 7 will fill (i.e., complete) the hand. Often called a GUT-SHOT. Compare: BOBTAIL STRAIGHT, OPEN-ENDED STRAIGHT.
- TOP PAIR - In flop games, having a hole card that matches the highest card on the board.
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