Newbie to Get to Pro Tournament via Online Poker Room
Is three months enough time to learn how to become a professional poker player? How about enough time to learn how to at least be competition for a professional poker player? It better be if Lisa Bishop is to have a shot at winning a world wide women’s poker tournament, now that she won a seat in.
The pup landlady, 37, won two qualifying seats online and now will be competing against professional poker players and celebrities who all want the $40,000 top prize and the big diamond ring that comes along with it. After only picking up a deck of cards three months ago, Bishop’s wins are quite the accomplishment. She will be competing against 35 tough professional poker players in a televised event as well….
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Poker lexicon:
- BIG BOBTAIL - An open-ended 4-card straight flush.
- MILES OF BAD ROAD - Three of a kind. Prefixed with a number, 3*<N>, to indicate 3 <N>s. Thus "24 miles of bad road" is 3 eights, etc. (This obviously doesn't work for face cards.)
- 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.
- TO GO - The current betting level, as in "$20 to go" meaning every player must contribute $20 (total) or drop. A $10 raise would then make the pot "$30 to go".
- ASSAULT RIFLE - In Omaha, hole cards that are A-K-4-7 of any suit(s).
- LAY ODDS - To give favorable odds to an opponent.
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