Poker: Defending champion Hachem is eliminated

Defending champion Joseph Hachem was knocked out of the main event at the 37th annual World Series of Poker on Saturday night and finished…

BIG BOBTAIL - An open-ended 4-card straight flush.
PAY OFF - Calling a bet with little expectation of winning, unless the opponent is bluffing.
SUITED - Two or more cards all the same suit. Ant: OFF-SUIT.
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.
FOLD - To decline to call a bet, thus dropping out of a hand.
RACE - In tournaments it is sometimes convenient to remove all lower-denomination chips from play, as the remaining players' stacks tend to grow. Small chips are converted to larger chips and any odd chips are "raced off" in the following way: each player with odd chips places them in front of his stack and is dealt one card for each chip. Highest card (rank and suit) takes all the small chips and converts them to higher-denomination chips.

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