Two hands reveal drama of tourney
I TRIED SOMETHING new the day of the $25,000 buy-in World Poker Tour Championship event. Rather than sleep in on Day 1, I went to the MGM Grand at 11 a.m. to film the finale for Bravo’s “Top Chef” (I was a judge). Afterward, I went to the gym, and then made my customarily late entrance to a Championship poker event - a near-record 3 hours late.In this tournament, we started with $50,000 in chips and the blinds were raised very slowly, so that I had more than $47,000 in chips when I sat down. The
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Poker lexicon:
- FILL - To draw a card that makes a five-card hand (straight, flush, full house, straight flush).
- READ - To determine whether an opponent has a good, medium or bad hand by observing his personal behavior. An inexact science.
- 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.
- LOOSE - Playing more hands than the norm. Antonym: TIGHT.
- BELLY BUSTER - An inside straight draw. Same as GUTSHOT.
- SCOOP - To take all of a pot that is normally split, either by winning both halves outright or winning one half when no players qualify for the other half.
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