Phil Ivey Wins Three Major Poker Awards at Card Player Awards Gala
The first ever poker awards show, produced by online poker operator Bodog and bearing the prestigious brand name of Card Player Magazine, saw Phil Ivey walk away with three major poker awards. Nominated for poker awards in an astounding five categories, Ivey won awards for being the "Best No-Limit Player," "Best Heads-Up Player," and "Most Feared Player" on the poker circuit. Ivey is truly on a roll, racking up the three awards in addition to his honor of being named ESPN and Bluff Magazine’s 2005 Player of The Year.
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Poker slang:
- PAY STATION - A player who rarely folds, thus who frequently calls better hands and loses. Almost as much fun as a LIVE ONE.
- PAT - Holding or being dealt a pat hand. "I'm pat" would mean "I don't want to draw any cards.
- CARDS SPEAK - Winner(s) of the hand are determined by turning their cards face up, the best hand(s) wins (no declaration).
- FIXED LIMIT - A betting structure where the amount of each bet is a specific fixed quantity. Usually specified as A-B, where A is the amount to bet in the first few betting rounds and B (larger than A) is the amount bet in the later rounds. Related terms: FLAT LIMIT, NO LIMIT, POT LIMIT, SPREAD LIMIT.
- CASE - The fourth card of a particular rank, as in "he folded the case 9" when describing where all the 9s were in a hand. Comes from the game of Faro where an employee of the house, called the "case keeper". kept track of the number of each rank of card remaining.
- FLOP - [1] In Hold'em, the first three community cards, dealt simultaneously. [2] To deal a flop, or to make a hand on a flop. "I flopped trips".
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