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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Useful poker information:
- TOKE - Gambling term for "tip", as in "Toke the cocktail waitress". Comes from the term "Token of appreciation".
- CUT - To break the deck into 2 stacks of at least 5 cards each. Usually performed by the player to the dealer's right to insure that the the deck is not stacked.
- TOP TWO PAIR - In flop games, having hole cards that make the highest possible two pair hand.
- MITES AND LICE - A hand consisting of two pair, threes over twos.
- WORLD SERIES OF POKER - A series of several different poker games with relatively large buy-ins, culminating in a $10,000 buy-in no-limit Hold'em tournament, the winner of which is crowned the World Poker Champion. Sponsored by Binion's Horseshoe Club in Las Vegas.
- REBUY - [1] To purchase additional chips after an initial buy-in, usually after losing most or all of the previous buy-in. This term is most often used in certain tournaments where if one loses all one's chips, or falls below a certain minimum chip level, for an additional sum of money one can purchase a fixed amount of additional tournament chips. Usually there is a time limit (The "REBUY PERIOD") as to how long rebuys are allowed. [2] The additional chips "rebought" in tournament play.
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