Online Poker Player Cashes in WPT
Following the increasing trend of sending online players to live events, online poker room Everest Poker recently sent two of its online players to Las Vegas for a shot at winning the Season Four finale of the World Poker Tour. Both players made their way there by winning Everest Poker’s Direct Entry Satellite for the WPT Championship, held on March 25. The players identified by their online names of Nicola82 and go-juge, did well in the event, although only one managed to cash.
The $25,000 buy-in to the event was covered by the online poker room, as well as $3,000 in spending cash…
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Poker dictionary:
- SPLIT [THE POT] - To split the pot between two or more players. Related term: QUARTER.
- 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.
- NUT / NUTS - The best possible hand of a given class. Not a LOCK unless all cards have been dealt. The "nut flush" is the highest possible flush, but might still lose to, e.g., a full house. Usually used in Hold'em games.
- FLUSH - A poker hand consisting of five cards all one suit.
- STRING BET - An unethical and often illegal means of raising whereby a player puts a call-size stack of chips into the pot and, after observing the reactions of the players, then goes back to his stack and puts out more, thus raising.
- BLUFF - To make a bet or raise with a poor hand, in hope that the remaining active player(s) will fold.
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