Former dealer wins $3.76M in poker tour final
LAS VEGAS - Joe Bartholdi, a 26-year-old former Las Vegas card dealer, ignored the odds to beat 604 other poker players and win the WPT World Championship and $3.76 million.
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Poker lexicon:
- FORCED BET - In some stud games a player may be required to make a bet to start the action on the first card. This is similar conceptually to blinds and antes, but in this case is dependent on the cards shown rather than player position. Usually the weakest hand is forced to bet.
- TURN - The fourth community card in Hold'em.
- FREEZE-OUT - A table-stakes game that continues until a small number of players (possibly only one) has all the money. The major event in The World Series of Poker is a freeze-out game.
- 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.)
- THIRD STREET - In Stud, the third card dealt to each player.
- POCKET ROCKETS - In Hold'em, a pair of aces for hole cards.
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