Pair of twos hit the jackpot
NIAGARA FALLS, Ont. — A pair of twos turned out to be enough to win a 27-year-old Oshawa man $1.35 million early Monday morning in the final hand of the World Poker Tour’s North American Championship.Soren Turkewitsch, a factory worker living with his girlfriend of six years in her parents’ basement won a marathon final table in the $4.8-million tournament, held at Niagara Fallsview Casino Resort. Five Canadians and one American started playing the final table at 5 p.m. Sunday and it wasn’t unt
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Poker slang:
- ONE-EYED - The jack of hearts, jack of spades or king of diamonds. So named because the characters are drawn in profile, thus showing only one eye.
- MIDDLE POSITION - Betting positions approximately halfway around the table from the first player to act.
- BELLY BUSTER - An inside straight draw. Same as GUTSHOT.
- FIFTH STREET - In stud poker, the fifth card to be dealt to each player. Sometimes used to refer to the last card dealt in Hold'em, although the more common term for this is RIVER (q.v.).
- 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.
- FREE CARD - A card dealt after all players checked in a betting round.

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