WPT World Championship Prize Pool To Reach $15 Million
The World Poker Tour World Championship will be held at the Bellagio poker room for the 4th consecutive year starting on April 18, but this time the prize pool is set to reach a whopping $15 million! Each seat costs $25,000 and the WPT is confident that they will attract 600 players to ante up…
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Poker slang:
- 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.
- JOKER - A 53rd card in the deck, distinct from the others, used as a wild card or as a BUG.
- CARDS SPEAK - Winner(s) of the hand are determined by turning their cards face up, the best hand(s) wins (no declaration).
- BLACK - When referring to chips, black usually stands for $100 casino chips. "This guy sits down with a stack of blacks and raises the first bet." Not ALL casinos use black for $100 but that is the common usage.
- COMPUTER HAND - Texas Hold'em hole cards of Q-7 offsuit. More generically, any hand that computer analysis/simulation determines is positive but turns out to be difficult to play in practice.
- POSSIBLE [STRAIGHT/FLUSH] - Up cards that quite possibly could lead to a straight and/or a flush.
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