Poker Interview with Phil Hellmuth
He has been dubbed Poker’s Bad Boy, but can a guy this good be all that bad? Life can be tough when youre an international superstar poker brat. Bluff recently caught up with Phil Hellmuth to find out about the man behind the tantrums.Phil, is it true that a mysterious English clairvoyant predicted your rise to superstardom?Yes. This womans name was Rose Gladden. She was a very famous old psychic; I think I remember something about how she could see angels and auras. She attended a conferenc
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Poker slang:
- DOUBLE BELLY BUSTER - A two-way inside straight. E.g., 3-5-6-7-9.
- FREEROLL - [1] A poker tournament that does not charge a buy-in fee; players must earn buy-in credits through previous play at the same establishment. [2] Having a lock on part of a pot (sure to win a greater fraction of the pot than one is betting) and playing to win more or all of it.
- MILES OF BAD ROAD - Three of a kind. Prefixed with a number, 3*<N>, to indicate 3 <N>s. Thus "24 miles of bad road" is 3 eights, etc. (This obviously doesn't work for face cards.)
- CAP - To cap the betting is to make the last permitted raise in a round.
- READ - To determine whether an opponent has a good, medium or bad hand by observing his personal behavior. An inexact science.
- PASSED OUT. - A hand in which nobody opens. What happens next is a function of the game being played.
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