Ivey Is The Man For 05
Poker pro Phil Ivey has been recently named the 2005 Bluff Magazine Poker Player of the Year, an honor that the young poker star has decidedly earned with his fantastic year in poker. The fans love him and the other pros respect him, and he has a string of success in the poker arena to add to his list of credentials.
2005 was a good year for poker in general, and for Phil Ivey in particular. He has won over $3.4 million in tournament cash prizes, and along the way made other significant accomplishments…
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Poker lingo:
- WIRED [PAIR] - A pair in the hole. In 5-card stud, a door card that pairs the hole card.
- RACE - In tournaments it is sometimes convenient to remove all lower-denomination chips from play, as the remaining players' stacks tend to grow. Small chips are converted to larger chips and any odd chips are "raced off" in the following way: each player with odd chips places them in front of his stack and is dealt one card for each chip. Highest card (rank and suit) takes all the small chips and converts them to higher-denomination chips.
- DOYLE BRUNSON - In Hold'em, 10-2 in the hole. So named because Doyle Brunson won two straight WSOPs (q.v.) in 1975 and 1976 with 10-2 on the last hand. (Suited (spades) in 1975, unsuited in 1976).
- DEAD MAN'S HAND - Generically: two pair, aces and eights. Specifically: the black aces, black eights and nine of diamonds. The hand Wild Bill Hickok was holding when he was shot to death.
- POT LIMIT - A game where the maximum bet is determined by the size of the pot at the time. Note that a player wanting to raise first calls the bet, then totals the pot to determine the maximum amount he can raise.
- 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".
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