Televised poker game in which quads beat out 6s over 5s to claim $575,700
The second season of “High Stakes Poker,” the TV show that chronicles a no-limit cash game, will be remembered for a hand that generated the biggest pot so far in the popular series.At more than $500,000, the pot contested by poker pros Gus Hansen and Daniel Negreanu was likely the largest single cash-game hand ever captured on tape. Unlike most poker TV shows, “High Stakes” portrays a cash game in which players mix it up with their own money, rather than a tournament.The danger of no-limit poke
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Poker dictionary:
- FLOP - [1] In Hold'em, the first three community cards, dealt simultaneously. [2] To deal a flop, or to make a hand on a flop. "I flopped trips".
- ROLLED UP - In seven-card stud, being dealt three of a kind in the first three cards.
- RUNNER-RUNNER - A hand made using both of the last two cards dealt.
- SPREAD LIMIT - A variation on fixed limit wherein the minimum and maximum bets are different. A 1-4-8 game allows bets from 1 to 4 in the early rounds and 1-8 in the last round. A 1-4-8-16 game allows bets from 1 to 4 in the early rounds, 1 to 8 in the next-to-last round, and 1 to 16 in the last round.
- SEVENTH STREET - The seventh card dealt in 7-card stud.
- REPRESENT - Implying, by one's betting style, that one has a particular hand.
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