Madison Native Prefers To Be Top Dog Ahead Of Poker Tournament
MADISON, Wis. — Madison native Phil Hellmuth Jr. will seek to defend his title in the 2006 National Heads Up Poker Championship beginning on Saturday in Las Vegas.
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Poker argot:
- DRAW OUT - To catch a card that improves your situation from a losing hand to a winning hand, especially when you beat someone holding a hand that usually figures to win.
- SHORT-STACKED - Playing with a only a small amount of money, thus limiting one's risk and reward.
- 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.
- STUCK - Down a nontrivial amount of money, as in "he's stuck $800".
- SIDE POT - When an active player runs out of money during the course of a hand, the remaining players participate in a second or SIDE POT for the rest of the hand. Additional side pots are possible if several players run out of money at different points in a hand.
- FILL - To draw a card that makes a five-card hand (straight, flush, full house, straight flush).
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