WSOP Updates – Mary Jones Dodges Bullets to win the Ladies Title
With 1128 entrants into the WSOP $1000 Ladies’ No Limit Hold’em event, players had to put in very long hours to squeeze the event into the scheduled two days….
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Poker glossary:
- NICKEL - Five dollars, usually represented by a red casino check.
- NUT / NUTS - The best possible hand of a given class. Not a LOCK unless all cards have been dealt. The "nut flush" is the highest possible flush, but might still lose to, e.g., a full house. Usually used in Hold'em games.
- RUSH - A winning streak. Also "ON A RUSH".
- 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.
- 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.
- FOUR OF A KIND - A hand containing all four cards of the same rank.
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