Catching up With WPT Player of the Year Gavin Smith
What a thirteen months it has been for poker pro Gavin Smith. A little over a year ago, Gavin was the epitome of the tour grinder, working his butt off playing many of the smaller events on the poker tour…
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Useful poker terms:
- LOCK - A hand that cannot be beat under any circumstances. Also: NUTS.
- LIMIT POKER - A poker game wherein the amount to be bet is fixed, or at most variable within a prescribed minimum and maximum. Ant.: NO-LIMIT POKER.
- ON THE COME - A situation where the player does not have a complete hand but hopes to make one if the right cards come up.
- BLUFF - To make a bet or raise with a poor hand, in hope that the remaining active player(s) will fold.
- QUALIFIER - A minimum standard that a hand must meet in order to win. Usually applied to the lowball side of a high-low split pot.
- PAT - Holding or being dealt a pat hand. "I'm pat" would mean "I don't want to draw any cards.
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