WCOOP #18, $2,500 NL Hold’em: J.C. Tran Captures Title in Main Event
The biggest online event ever, in terms of prize winnings paid — that’s what unfolded Sunday as Poker Stars’ fifth annual World Series of Online Poker wrapped up its 16-day run with Event #18, the no-limit freezeout Main Event….
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Poker terminology:
- FLAT CALL - To call a bet. Emphasizes that the caller did not raise.
- DEAD MAN'S HAND - Generically: two pair, aces and eights. Specifically: the black aces, black eights and nine of diamonds. The hand Wild Bill Hickok was holding when he was shot to death.
- ON TILT - Playing worse (usually, more aggressively) than usual because a player has become emotionally upset.
- RIVER - The last card dealt in a hand of stud or Hold'em.
- COLD CALL - Calling both a bet and raise at the same time, as opposed to calling a bet then later calling a raise made after the call.
- RAINBOW - In flop games, a flop in which no two cards are of the same suit. "The flop was A 9 7 rainbow."
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