$10m hasn’t changed poker king
The old line about modest lottery winners says, if winning won’t change your life then don’t enter.It’s not advice that Australia’s poker king Joe Hachem adheres to.He insists the $US10 million won at last year’s World Series of Poker (WSOP) has not changed his life.Hachem is currently on a European tour ahead of defending his WSOP title in Las Vegas in July.He appreciates the chance to travel, but has so far resisted moving from Melbourne to the United States.”It’s been a pretty tough decision
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Poker terminology:
- 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.
- EDGE - An advantage over an opponent, either specific or subjective.
- SIDE POT - When an active player runs out of money during the course of a hand, the remaining players participate in a second or SIDE POT for the rest of the hand. Additional side pots are possible if several players run out of money at different points in a hand.
- RAINBOW - In flop games, a flop in which no two cards are of the same suit. "The flop was A 9 7 rainbow."
- FAVORITE - Before all the cards are dealt, a hand that figures to be the winner. Ant: UNDERDOG.
- IMPLIED ODDS - A refinement to POT ODDS which includes money not yet in the pot. Considers the potential extra bets and winnings made when a player forms a very good hand.
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