A Chat with Michael “The Grinder” Mizrachi

At 24 years old, tournament poker player Michael “The Grinder” Mizrachi has already won more than $5 million, including 10 final tables and seven tournament wins in 2006. The winnings have allowed him to buy a luxury tour bus to travel the country with his wife and son.How did you get into poker at such a young age that you were able to make such a quick splash?I started playing when I was 15 for money. But my brothers and I were always into it. I mean, I used to play for baseball cards when I w

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Poker lingo:

FIXED LIMIT - A betting structure where the amount of each bet is a specific fixed quantity. Usually specified as A-B, where A is the amount to bet in the first few betting rounds and B (larger than A) is the amount bet in the later rounds. Related terms: FLAT LIMIT, NO LIMIT, POT LIMIT, SPREAD LIMIT.
OPEN-ENDED STRAIGHT - Four cards to a straight which can be completed by drawing a card at either end. E.g., 6-7-8-9 is an open-ended straight. Also: BOBTAIL STRAIGHT. Compare: INSIDE STRAIGHT.
BAD GAME - Any game in which you figure to be the loser, because the other players are better than you.
SPREAD LIMIT - A variation on fixed limit wherein the minimum and maximum bets are different. A 1-4-8 game allows bets from 1 to 4 in the early rounds and 1-8 in the last round. A 1-4-8-16 game allows bets from 1 to 4 in the early rounds, 1 to 8 in the next-to-last round, and 1 to 16 in the last round.
BARN - A FULL HOUSE, three of a kind and a pair.
CASE - The fourth card of a particular rank, as in "he folded the case 9" when describing where all the 9s were in a hand. Comes from the game of Faro where an employee of the house, called the "case keeper". kept track of the number of each rank of card remaining.

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