Poker champ faces lawsuit
LAS VEGAS - Jamie Gold’s win at the World Series of Poker might be only half as sweet. A Nevada judge has frozen half of the $12 million top prize after a Gold acquaintance sued, saying the two men agreed to split the winnings.
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Poker lexicon:
- 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.
- HIGH-LOW SPLIT - Forms of poker in which the pot is split between the best hand and best lowball hand.
- UNDER THE GUN - The position that has to act first in a round of betting.
- FOLD - To decline to call a bet, thus dropping out of a hand.
- AMERICAN AIRLINES - In Hold'em, a pair of Aces in the hole. Better known (at least in rec.gambling) as POCKET ROCKETS.
- BAD GAME - Any game in which you figure to be the loser, because the other players are better than you.
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