$15M pot brings out poker faces
Nearly 600 poker players from more than 40 countries will play for a prize pool of about $15 million starting today in the World Poker Tour’s World Championship at the Bellagio Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas. The winner of the No-Limit Texas Hold’em tournament could take home $3.5 million.
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Poker glossary:
- FILL - To draw a card that makes a five-card hand (straight, flush, full house, straight flush).
- COLD CALL - Calling both a bet and raise at the same time, as opposed to calling a bet then later calling a raise made after the call.
- EDGE - An advantage over an opponent, either specific or subjective.
- PAT HAND - In draw poker, a hand that does not need any more cards. Specifically, a straight, flush, full house or straight flush. One might bluff and represent a pat hand but actually hold something else.
- FLOP - [1] In Hold'em, the first three community cards, dealt simultaneously. [2] To deal a flop, or to make a hand on a flop. "I flopped trips".
- 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.
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