Virginia Man is Finalist in Poker Dome Challenge
WOODBRIDGE, Va. (AP) - The Poker Dome is no place for the faint or the flinching. It’s a soundproof pressure chamber where players are strapped with anxiety-tracking heart monitors and have 15 seconds to make all-in or fold-’em decisions that determine who plays on and who heads home.
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Poker dictionary:
- SHORT-STACKED - Playing with a only a small amount of money, thus limiting one's risk and reward.
- KICKER - In hands containing pairs and trips, the highest card not matched. In draw games, sometimes a card kept for deception purposes.
- POCKET ROCKETS - In Hold'em, a pair of aces for hole cards.
- 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".
- BET - To put money into the pot, pursuant to the rules of the game, thus maintaining a chance of winning the pot.
- STRING BET - An unethical and often illegal means of raising whereby a player puts a call-size stack of chips into the pot and, after observing the reactions of the players, then goes back to his stack and puts out more, thus raising.
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