April Poker Month in Las Vegas
The two biggest poker shows in town, the World Poker Tour and the World Series of Poker, are both holding big time events in April at the Bellagio casino and Caesars Palace casino in Las Vegas. Starting April 5th the Bellagio Five Star World Poker Classic kicks off, which will run through April 26th. Just a couple of days later on April 28th the World Series of Poker tour hits the brand spanking new poker room at Caesars Palace…
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Poker terminology:
- 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.)
- MITES AND LICE - A hand consisting of two pair, threes over twos.
- IMPLIED ODDS - A refinement to POT ODDS which includes money not yet in the pot. Considers the potential extra bets and winnings made when a player forms a very good hand.
- STRING BET - An unethical and often illegal means of raising whereby a player puts a call-size stack of chips into the pot and, after observing the reactions of the players, then goes back to his stack and puts out more, thus raising.
- BELLY BUSTER - An inside straight draw. Same as GUTSHOT.
- SPREAD LIMIT - A variation on fixed limit wherein the minimum and maximum bets are different. A 1-4-8 game allows bets from 1 to 4 in the early rounds and 1-8 in the last round. A 1-4-8-16 game allows bets from 1 to 4 in the early rounds, 1 to 8 in the next-to-last round, and 1 to 16 in the last round.
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