New Tournament Director For The World Series Of Poker
The World Series of Poker, owned and operated by the largest casino operator in the world, Harrahs Entertainment, has named Robert Daily as the Tournament Director for the 2006 WSOP. Daily has been the poker room manager at the Rio All- Suites Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, and will now be moving up to one of the most prestigious jobs in the poker industry.
The 2006 WSOP events kick off on June 25 and run though August 10 at the Amazon Room of the Rio Pavilion Convention Center, where Daily will be running the show as the third Tournament Director in as many years.
The 62-year-old, newly announced Director mentioned that his time spent as a contract pilot for Air America, the airline run by the CIA during the Vietnam War, has given him skills that translate to poker.. …
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Poker jargon:
- STRAIGHT - A hand consisting of 5 cards in sequence but not in suit.
- SHARK - A good/crafty player often posing as a fish early in the game.
- MARKED CARDS - Cards that have been (illegally) altered so that their value can be read from the back.
- AMERICAN AIRLINES - In Hold'em, a pair of Aces in the hole. Better known (at least in rec.gambling) as POCKET ROCKETS.
- DRAW - [1] A class of poker games characterized by players being dealt 5 cards face-down and later having the opportunity to replace some of the original 5. "Draw poker" and "Five-card draw" are examples of usage. [2] In stud and Hold'em games, the set of cards that will be dealt later can be collectively called "the draw". [3] To discard some number of cards and have dealt an equal number of replacements.
- QUALIFIER - A minimum standard that a hand must meet in order to win. Usually applied to the lowball side of a high-low split pot.
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