WCOOP Main Event Hits $6 Million Prize Pool
The World Championship of Online Poker main event has come to a close, and JC Tran took the big prize at the event. Playing under the user name of area23JC, Tran has won the biggest online tournament in history, taking the winner’s share of a $6,275,000 prize pool. More than $18 million in prize money was paid out for 18 events, with the main event’s guaranteed $3 million prize pool more than doubled in the process…
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Useful poker information:
- BIG BLIND - A blind bet, usually a raise of an earlier blind which would be called the SMALL BLIND. In limit poker, the BIG BLIND is usually the size of the minimum bet on the first round of betting.
- FULL HOUSE - A hand consisting of 3-of-a-kind and a (different) pair.
- OUT - [1] A card that will improve your hand, often substantially. A hand with many OUTS is preferable to a hand with only 1 or 2. [2] Folded, ineligible to bet or win this hand. "I'm out" is often a synonym for "I fold".
- BAD-BEAT JACKPOT - In some cardrooms, a prize that is shared by the players in a game, when a very good hand (usually Aces full, or better) is beaten by a higher hand. Jackpots are usually financed by taking a drop ($1 is a common amount) from every pot. A typical division of the jackpot will give the losing hand 50 %, the winning hand 25 %, and the other players at the table share the remaining 25 % of the Jackpot.
- HOYLE - Edmund Hoyle (1769-?) was the authoritative source for rules of card games. Hoyle is to card rules as Webster is to word definitions.
- KICKER - In hands containing pairs and trips, the highest card not matched. In draw games, sometimes a card kept for deception purposes.
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