Tunica plays host to dueling poker tournaments
Gold Strike’s tournament will be featured on the popular Travel Channel program “World Poker Tour” alongside tournaments hosted by sister casino properties Bellagio and M-G-M Mirage in Las Vegas.
The show has featured celebrities turned poker players, such as Jennifer Tilly, as well as players who have joined the celebrity ranks like Vietnam-born Scotty Nguyen…
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Poker glossary:
- LATE POSITION - For a particular betting round, a player who does not have to act until most of the other players have acted.
- 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.
- LIVE ONE - The best kind of opponent, a poor player with a lot of money to lose and in a hurry to lose it.
- RAINBOW - In flop games, a flop in which no two cards are of the same suit. "The flop was A 9 7 rainbow."
- SPREAD LIMIT - A variation on fixed limit wherein the minimum and maximum bets are different. A 1-4-8 game allows bets from 1 to 4 in the early rounds and 1-8 in the last round. A 1-4-8-16 game allows bets from 1 to 4 in the early rounds, 1 to 8 in the next-to-last round, and 1 to 16 in the last round.
- BLACK - When referring to chips, black usually stands for $100 casino chips. "This guy sits down with a stack of blacks and raises the first bet." Not ALL casinos use black for $100 but that is the common usage.
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