University of Minnesota student wins PartyPoker Million
Michael Schneider, a 22-year old student from the University of Minnesota, won the PartyPoker Million this weekend, making him the youngest winner of this prestigious tournament in history. Schneider follows in the footsteps of poker greats Kathy Liebert, Howard Lederer, Erick Lindgren and Michael Gracz, who won the limit holdem tourney in 2002, 2003, 2004 and 2005 respectively.
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Useful poker information:
- OMAHA - A variant of Hold'em where each player receives 4 hole cards and must use exactly two of them (together with 3 of 5 board cards) to make a hand. Often played high-low split with an 8 qualifier for low.
- STRAIGHT - A hand consisting of 5 cards in sequence but not in suit.
- FLAT LIMIT - A variant of fixed limit where all bets are the same amount.
- DEAD MAN'S HAND - Generically: two pair, aces and eights. Specifically: the black aces, black eights and nine of diamonds. The hand Wild Bill Hickok was holding when he was shot to death.
- 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.
- PAY STATION - A player who rarely folds, thus who frequently calls better hands and loses. Almost as much fun as a LIVE ONE.
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