Gavin Smith MansionPoker Winner

It really did not come as a surprise that a pro won a recent online poker room sponsored event, even with other pros coaching the amateurs in the game. It was the MansionPoker.net World Pro-Am Challenge, and a handful of pros and a handful of amateurs sat down across the felt to battle it out for a half million dollar prize. To make things a bit more fair the amateurs were given pro poker players for coaches, whom they could consult over the battle.

In the end it was Gavin Smith who took home the half million, but an amateur player from the United Kingdom took a healthy second place, and this in the first live event he ever played….

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Tue, July 18th, 2006

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  • COMMUNITY CARDS - Cards that are available for every player to use in making a hand. Usually dealt face up somewhere in the middle of the table.
  • QUARTER - [1] Twenty-five dollars, often symbolized by a green casino chip. [2] To divide half a pot between two tying hands. In split pot games, a player who "ties" another player for their half of the pot is said to be "quartered". One might say "I didn't bet my A-2 because I figured I'd get quartered".
  • FAMILY POT - A pot where all of the players at the table are participating, even after each has had an opportunity to act.
  • SUICIDE KING - King of Hearts. So named because in the drawing the king appears to be stabbing himself in the head.
  • CHASE - To continue in a hand, often at poor odds, in the hopes of catching a much better hand. "He called, chasing the flush.".
  • KICKER TROUBLE - Not having as high a kicker as an opponent.
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