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 dictionary:

SPLIT [OPENERS] - In draw poker, to discard one or more openers, usually to draw to a straight or flush. Normally requires the opener to declare the act and retain the discards so that the act of opening can later be validated.
MANIAC - A player who bets, raises and reraises without regard to the quality of his hand. Most often found in flop games.
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.
RERAISE - To raise after an opponent has raised.
RACE - In tournaments it is sometimes convenient to remove all lower-denomination chips from play, as the remaining players' stacks tend to grow. Small chips are converted to larger chips and any odd chips are "raced off" in the following way: each player with odd chips places them in front of his stack and is dealt one card for each chip. Highest card (rank and suit) takes all the small chips and converts them to higher-denomination chips.
TOP TWO PAIR - In flop games, having hole cards that make the highest possible two pair hand.

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