2006 WSOP: Nobles Ruling the Roost and the WSOP Main Event
While there certainly are a number of professional poker players still hanging tough in the Main Event at the 37th annual World Series of Poker at the Rio in Las Vegas, it is lesser known player Dmitri Nobles who has been bullying the field with an incredible chip lead. Ever since Chris Moneymaker won the 2003 World Series of Poker championship after winning a $39 satellite, it has been the dream of the average poker player to storm the castle of the World Series of Poker and win poker immortality, not to mention millions of dollars, with a first-place finish. Players like Dmitri Nobles show that the dream is alive and well as the competition grinds towards its finish on August 10th….
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Poker dictionary:
- STACKED [DECK] - A deck that has been arranged to give one player a huge advantage. Also: RIGGED.
- BIG SLICK - In Texas Hold'em, hole cards of A-K, suited or not.
- FOLD - To decline to call a bet, thus dropping out of a hand.
- UNDER THE GUN - The position that has to act first in a round of betting.
- TAPPED [OUT] - Out of money. Can refer to a player running out of money in the course of a hand, thus still active for the main pot; or can refer to a player who has lost his bankroll and can no longer play.
- FILL - To draw a card that makes a five-card hand (straight, flush, full house, straight flush).
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