Jeff Haney cuts the cards with the latest WPT millionaire
The World Poker Tour launched its new season with a sleek new stage set - more black and chrome, less red and blue - and a new face in the winner’s circle last week at the Mirage.Stan Weiss, a 59-year-old sales professional from Nashville, outlasted a field of 384 entrants in the Mirage Poker Showdown to become the first winner in Season 5 of World Poker, the lucrative made-for-TV tour that airs on the Travel Channel (Cox cable channel 66).Viewers will have a long wait to catch Weiss’ victory on
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Poker jargon:
- ANTE - A small bet all players are required to make before a hand is dealt. Not all games have an ante. Related terms: BLIND, FORCED BET.
- OVERCALL - To call a bet after one or more players already called.
- CHASE - To continue in a hand, often at poor odds, in the hopes of catching a much better hand. "He called, chasing the flush.".
- DRAW - [1] A class of poker games characterized by players being dealt 5 cards face-down and later having the opportunity to replace some of the original 5. "Draw poker" and "Five-card draw" are examples of usage. [2] In stud and Hold'em games, the set of cards that will be dealt later can be collectively called "the draw". [3] To discard some number of cards and have dealt an equal number of replacements.
- OPENERS - Cards in a hand that qualify a player to open the betting.
- S&M - Sklansky & Malmuth. Generally refers to the ideas and algorithms published by these two authors. When used in a 7-card stud context, often refers to "7 Card Stud For Advanced Players", and when used in a Hold'em context, often refers to "Texas Hold'em For Advanced Players".
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