Poker’s best come to San Jose for tournament
The cards don’t lie — poker has a hold on America. And this week San Jose is at the center of the poker universe.With an estimated 60 million poker players in the United States, the game has gone from being a fad to part of the fabric of American culture.Top players such as Phil Hellmuth of Palo Alto and Daniel Negreanu have moved out of the shadows and are now identifiable celebrities battling animated cans of Diet Pepsi in TV commercials. Big-box stores such as Bed Bath & Beyond and Target ar
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Poker talk:
- POT ODDS - The amount of money in the pot divided by the amount of money you must bet in order to call. Often used to determine if a pot offers enough reward to play on the come.
- 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.
- PAY OFF - Calling a bet with little expectation of winning, unless the opponent is bluffing.
- BET FOR VALUE - Betting a hand that, in the long run, is expected to win more than it loses. Antonym: BLUFF.
- QUARTER - [1] Twenty-five dollars, often symbolized by a green casino chip. [2] To divide half a pot between two tying hands. In split pot games, a player who "ties" another player for their half of the pot is said to be "quartered". One might say "I didn't bet my A-2 because I figured I'd get quartered".
- HIGH-LOW SPLIT - Forms of poker in which the pot is split between the best hand and best lowball hand.
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