Hellmuth has become a hot commodity
When you win a major championship in any major sport, you usually get some time off. But when you win the National Heads-Up Poker Championship, you get busier. At least that was the case for Phil Hellmuth, winner of the inaugural NHPC in March of 2005.
Indeed, even when Hellmuth wants to spend some free time with his family, he is besieged by deals and business opportunities, not to mention actual poker. You ask what Hellmuth’s been working on? Well, as one of the most in-demand poker players in the…
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Poker slang:
- TO GO - The current betting level, as in "$20 to go" meaning every player must contribute $20 (total) or drop. A $10 raise would then make the pot "$30 to go".
- POCKET ROCKETS - In Hold'em, a pair of aces for hole cards.
- LEAK - To show one's hole cards (often unknowingly).
- SHARK - A good/crafty player often posing as a fish early in the game.
- SIDE POT - When an active player runs out of money during the course of a hand, the remaining players participate in a second or SIDE POT for the rest of the hand. Additional side pots are possible if several players run out of money at different points in a hand.
- HIGH-LOW SPLIT - Forms of poker in which the pot is split between the best hand and best lowball hand.
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