WSoP main event has started
The $10 000 buy-in No-Limit Texas Hold ‘Em main event in this year’s 37th World Series of Poker started Friday afternoon in Vegas at the Amazon Convention Center at the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino with a giant prize pool reported to be in excess of $72 million.
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Poker jargon:
- RAISE - To wager more than the minimum required to call, forcing other players to put in more money as well.
- HIT - To make a hand or catch a card or cards that improves one's hand. "I hit a gut-shot draw on the river."
- MUCK - [1] A collection of face-down cards near the dealer composed of discards, i.e., folded hands, burns and discards for drawing purposes. [2] To throw one's cards into the muck, thus folding.
- SHARK - A good/crafty player often posing as a fish early in the game.
- ON TILT - Playing worse (usually, more aggressively) than usual because a player has become emotionally upset.
- BICYCLE - The best possible low hand: A-2-3-4-5. More common term: WHEEL.
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