Head-to-head with a Big Game player

LAST FALL, I began making forays into the “Big Game” at the Bellagio, a high-stakesaffair seemingly always in progress. The first four occasions, I won almost $500,000 without a single loss. Then, inDecember, I played three more times over a weekend and lost $176,000. After arriving in Vegas that Friday night, I should have gone straight to bed, but instead lost $80,000. Saturday, still tired and off my game, I lost another $43,000, and finally, on Sunday,I risked all the remaining cashI had in

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Poker glossary:

KICKER - In hands containing pairs and trips, the highest card not matched. In draw games, sometimes a card kept for deception purposes.
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.
SEMI-BLUFF - To bluff with a come hand that figures to win if it hits.
HOLE CARDS - In Stud and Hold'em, the face-down cards dealt to each player.
FORCED BET - In some stud games a player may be required to make a bet to start the action on the first card. This is similar conceptually to blinds and antes, but in this case is dependent on the cards shown rather than player position. Usually the weakest hand is forced to bet.
HOOK - A Jack. So named because the "J" resembles a hook.

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