WORLD POKER CASHES IN CHIPS
” have kissed and made up following a brief legal brawl. The cable network and the producers of its most popular (and poker-boom-spawning) show, “World Poker Tour” WPT Enterprises have settled a legal spat sparked last fall when ESPN showed an interest in picking up a new poker show from WPT.
Related Poker News:
- Event #30, $10,000 Limit Hold’em World Championship: Rob Hollink Victorious
- WSOP Record Breaker Hellmuth
- Poker ride cashes in chips to assist desert guide dogs
- 2006 WSOP: Men the Master Catches Hellmuth in WSOP Cashes
- Full Tilt Poker Signs Player with WSOP Record
- US Poker Championship Continues
- Inside The Poker Tour - 72 – A Tale of Two Alan’s
- Foxwoods World Poker Finals Is The Richest WPT Event Yet!
- TC man cashes in at World Series of Poker
- Phil Hellmuth Reaches Half Century Mark In WSOP Cashes
- St. Louisan cashes in big at World Series of Poker
- Use your big stack to command the table
Useful poker terms:
- HOOK - A Jack. So named because the "J" resembles a hook.
- STRING BET - An unethical and often illegal means of raising whereby a player puts a call-size stack of chips into the pot and, after observing the reactions of the players, then goes back to his stack and puts out more, thus raising.
- FLOORMAN - The casino representative in charge of the card room or a section of a card room. Arbitrates disputes when unusual events happen.
- 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".
- DECLARE - In high/low games, declaring one's hand as high or low or both ways (usually done with chips in hand). Usually played in home games; casinos tend to play CARDS SPEAK.
- OUT - [1] A card that will improve your hand, often substantially. A hand with many OUTS is preferable to a hand with only 1 or 2. [2] Folded, ineligible to bet or win this hand. "I'm out" is often a synonym for "I fold".
RSS feed
