The Host of Texas’ First TV Poker Tournament Takes Third Place and Wins Over a Quarter Million Dollars in the World
Tom Schneider, host of Texas’ first and only televised poker tournament series, TrueTexasPoker, outlasted a field of 589 players to earn a spot on the televised final table at the World Poker Challenge in Reno, NV.
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Casino poker language:
- FOUR OF A KIND - A hand containing all four cards of the same rank.
- 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.
- LOOSE - Playing more hands than the norm. Antonym: TIGHT.
- 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.
- TURN - The fourth community card in Hold'em.
- ROYAL FLUSH - An ace-high straight flush, the best possible hand in regular poker.
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