Poker Pro Becomes Maxim Girl

In the early days of the WSOP probably the last thought running through the minds of Puggy Pearson, Benny Binion, Johnny Moss and Doyle Brunson was “Poker needs a Cover Girl,” but it looks like that day has come. While the beautiful people, both men and women, seem to be flying in the face of the “you don’t need a pretty face to be a poker champion” concept for some time now, it was only in recent years that poker pros seem to have erased any dividing line between poker and the rest of the world. Gus Hansen has been named one of the world’s 50 beautiful people by one popular magazine, and Clonie Gowen is soon to be honored in a different way by another…

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Sun, June 25th, 2006

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  • OVERPAIR - In Hold'em, a pair in the hole that is larger than any community card on the board.
  • BRODERICK CRAWFORD - In Hold'em, hole cards of 10-4. From the 1950s TV series "Highway Patrol", starring Broderick Crawford.
  • 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.
  • TAP - In no-limit games, to wager all of one's money in one bet.
  • BACK DOOR - Applies to a hand that was made in the last card or two, specifically not a hand the player was originally planning on having. Most often applied to straights and flushes.
  • ACTION - Money that is being bet. "NO ACTION" means a hand or game has few bettors and fewer raisers. "Gimme some action" is ostensibly a plea for calls and raises.
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