‘Battleship Poker’ Returns At EPT Grand Final
It was one of the highlights of the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure, besides young online player Steven Paul-Ambrose taking the championship.
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Poker jargon:
- FLAT LIMIT - A variant of fixed limit where all bets are the same amount.
- MUCK - [1] A collection of face-down cards near the dealer composed of discards, i.e., folded hands, burns and discards for drawing purposes. [2] To throw one's cards into the muck, thus folding.
- UNDERDOG - Before all the cards are dealt, a hand that does not figure to be the winner. Ant: FAVORITE.
- BIG SLICK - In Texas Hold'em, hole cards of A-K, suited or not.
- WHITE BLACKBIRD - A hand so astonishingly rare as to be unworthy of the opponents' consideration, e.g., being dealt a pat royal flush in 5-card draw.
- 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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