Big Poker Tournament In Deadwood

DEADWOOD (AP) — More than 200 people will be wearing their poker faces this weekend in Deadwood. Each has paid $550 to get play Texas ‘hold-em in a tournament called the Deadwood shootout.The winning hand will be worth $30,000.”Everyone plays for a different reason,” casino worker Vickie Blakney said of the poker game.”Luck is also a huge factor. That’s why it’s such a good game. You can play with all walks of life. You can play with movie stars, you can play with professionals, novice players,

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Poker jargon:

RAGS - Board cards that are small, not suited and not in sequence, e.g., 9-5-2. When "rags flop", it is unlikely that anyone has a good hand, except possibly the big blind in an unraised pot.
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.
LATE POSITION - For a particular betting round, a player who does not have to act until most of the other players have acted.
MUCK - [1] A collection of face-down cards near the dealer composed of discards, i.e., folded hands, burns and discards for drawing purposes. [2] To throw one's cards into the muck, thus folding.
SIDE POT - When an active player runs out of money during the course of a hand, the remaining players participate in a second or SIDE POT for the rest of the hand. Additional side pots are possible if several players run out of money at different points in a hand.
BIG BOBTAIL - An open-ended 4-card straight flush.

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