Ontario student wins $1.3M playing casino poker
A University of Waterloo student has won more than $1.3-million US after a week of playing poker in paradise.
After a seemingly endless chain of tense moments, Steve Paul-Ambrose, 22, emerged in first place Tuesday from a pool of more than 700 players in the Third Annual PokerStars Caribbean Adventure at the Atlantis Casino Resort on Paradise Island in the Bahamas.
The third-year business and science student won $1,363,100 and captured a $25,000 seat in the World Poker Tour’s championship tournament, which will be played in Las Vegas in April…
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Poker jargon:
- SPLIT [THE POT] - To split the pot between two or more players. Related term: QUARTER.
- RIDER BACK (TM) - A brand of playing cards that feature a bicycle rider on the back of the cards. Often used in home games. Compare: BEE No. 92.
- REPRESENT - Implying, by one's betting style, that one has a particular hand.
- FACE CARD - A jack, queen or king (a card with a face on it, not joker).
- LOCK - A hand that cannot be beat under any circumstances. Also: NUTS.
- READ - To determine whether an opponent has a good, medium or bad hand by observing his personal behavior. An inexact science.
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