Poker winners attract much more attention now
If you hadn’t heard before now that Jaime Gold is the winner of the 2006 World Series of Poker No-Limit Texas Hold’em Championship well, you must have had the TV turned off and skipped reading the papers.Gold is a former Hollywood agent who once counted James Gandolfini among his clients, and he produced 10-time WSOP winner Johnny Chan’s instructional poker DVD. And that makes him a near-perfect media winner for what has become an enormous annual media event.It wasn’t always that way, of course.
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Poker argot:
- BLANK - Used in describing stud and Hold'em games. Refers to a dealt card that does not offer any value; stating the actual rank and suit would detract from a description of the hand. "The last card was a blank.".
- FIXED LIMIT - A betting structure where the amount of each bet is a specific fixed quantity. Usually specified as A-B, where A is the amount to bet in the first few betting rounds and B (larger than A) is the amount bet in the later rounds. Related terms: FLAT LIMIT, NO LIMIT, POT LIMIT, SPREAD LIMIT.
- SIDE POT - When an active player runs out of money during the course of a hand, the remaining players participate in a second or SIDE POT for the rest of the hand. Additional side pots are possible if several players run out of money at different points in a hand.
- TOURNAMENT - A highly structured game involving potentially dozens of tables where all participants pay an entry fee and obtain a fixed number of chips. Once a tournament has started, additional players may not enter. As the game progresses players bust out and are eliminated until only one winner remains.
- SEMI-BLUFF - To bluff with a come hand that figures to win if it hits.
- OVER - A term used in describing two pair or a full house. "Kings over tens" means two pair, kings and tens. "Jacks over", also "Jacks up" describes a hand that is two pair: Jacks with an unspecified lower pair. Also used to describe a full house, distinguishing the three of a kind from the pair. The hand J-J-J-A-A could be described as "Full house, Jacks over Aces".
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