WSOP Updates - Gorham Outlasts Giant Field For Bracelet Win
As the excitement continued to grow for the start of the $10,000 Championship Event of the World Series (which kicks off today), there was still some unfinished business left to take care of in the Amazon Room…
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Useful poker terms:
- OPENERS - Cards in a hand that qualify a player to open the betting.
- PROP - Also PROPOSITION PLAYER. An employee of the gaming establishment whose primary purpose is to keep enough players at a table to prevent breaking up the game for lack of players. Unlike SHILLs "props" make a small hourly wage but play with their own money, winning or losing based on their skill.
- RAIL - A barrier dividing the card playing area from a public area.
- SHOWDOWN - The point at the end of the hand where all active players reveal their cards and the pot is awarded to the winner(s).
- JOKER - A 53rd card in the deck, distinct from the others, used as a wild card or as a BUG.
- SCOOP - To take all of a pot that is normally split, either by winning both halves outright or winning one half when no players qualify for the other half.
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