UA student returns home after poker win of $205,000
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) A University of Alabama student who sat out a semester to play in a poker tournament in Australia has won $205,000 playing Texas Hold ‘Em with some of the world’s best players.
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Poker dictionary:
- ON THE COME - A situation where the player does not have a complete hand but hopes to make one if the right cards come up.
- BAD GAME - Any game in which you figure to be the loser, because the other players are better than you.
- TOURNAMENT - A highly structured game involving potentially dozens of tables where all participants pay an entry fee and obtain a fixed number of chips. Once a tournament has started, additional players may not enter. As the game progresses players bust out and are eliminated until only one winner remains.
- TOKE - Gambling term for "tip", as in "Toke the cocktail waitress". Comes from the term "Token of appreciation".
- RUNNER-RUNNER - A hand made using both of the last two cards dealt.
- HOYLE - Edmund Hoyle (1769-?) was the authoritative source for rules of card games. Hoyle is to card rules as Webster is to word definitions.
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