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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Useful poker information:
- REBUY - [1] To purchase additional chips after an initial buy-in, usually after losing most or all of the previous buy-in. This term is most often used in certain tournaments where if one loses all one's chips, or falls below a certain minimum chip level, for an additional sum of money one can purchase a fixed amount of additional tournament chips. Usually there is a time limit (The "REBUY PERIOD") as to how long rebuys are allowed. [2] The additional chips "rebought" in tournament play.
- 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.
- SEVENTH STREET - The seventh card dealt in 7-card stud.
- BIG BLIND - A blind bet, usually a raise of an earlier blind which would be called the SMALL BLIND. In limit poker, the BIG BLIND is usually the size of the minimum bet on the first round of betting.
- FOUR OF A KIND - A hand containing all four cards of the same rank.
- 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.
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