Champ set a perfect trap, but then sounded an alarm
With five players left at the 2006 World Series of Poker (WSOP), the following hand came up between top pro Allen Cunningham and eventual winner Jamie Gold (Gold is now the reigning World Champion of poker). At the time, Gold was the chip leader with $44.7 million in chips and Cunningham was in third place with $13.7 million in chips.With the blinds at $150,000-$300,000 Cunningham opened for $900,000 with Ac-10c, Gold called on the button with 8s-8d and Paul Wasicka called $600,000 more in the b
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Poker slang:
- LITTLE SLICK - In Hold'em, hole cards of A-2, suited or not.
- SET - In Hold'em, three of a kind where two of the cards are hole cards.
- 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.
- PAT HAND - In draw poker, a hand that does not need any more cards. Specifically, a straight, flush, full house or straight flush. One might bluff and represent a pat hand but actually hold something else.
- PASSED OUT. - A hand in which nobody opens. What happens next is a function of the game being played.
- RING GAME - A standard game where players can come and go as they choose. The opposite of TOURNAMENT.
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