The Inside Story of the $20 Million Poker Game at Wynn Las Vegas
LAS VEGAS, March 7 /PRNewswire/ — In what is considered the largest head-to-head poker game of all time, self-made billionaire banker Andy Beal matched $20 million against a rotating cast made up of the best high-stakes poker players in the world, including Phil Ivey, Jennifer Harman, Todd Brunson, and Ted Forrest.During the month of February, Beal played many of the world’s best poker players in head-to-head games of Texas hold’em, for stakes of $30,000-$60,000 and $50,000-$100,000 at Wynn Las
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Useful poker information:
- OPENERS - Cards in a hand that qualify a player to open the betting.
- MITES AND LICE - A hand consisting of two pair, threes over twos.
- PAT - Holding or being dealt a pat hand. "I'm pat" would mean "I don't want to draw any cards.
- FACE CARD - A jack, queen or king (a card with a face on it, not joker).
- HOOK - A Jack. So named because the "J" resembles a hook.
- INSIDE STRAIGHT - Four cards to a straight, where only one rank will complete the hand. E.g., 4-5-6-8 is an inside straight since only a 7 will fill (i.e., complete) the hand. Often called a GUT-SHOT. Compare: BOBTAIL STRAIGHT, OPEN-ENDED STRAIGHT.
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