Third annual Heads-Up Poker Tournament returns to Caesars Palace
LAS VEGAS, Nevada — (PRESS RELEASE) — For the third straight year, a field of 64 of the world’s elite poker players will descend upon Las Vegas from March 1-4 as the NBC National Heads-Up Poker Championship brings a ‘who’s who’ from the poker world to the Caesars Palace Poker Tournament Room.
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Poker slang:
- FOURTH STREET - In stud poker, the fourth card dealt to each player. Sometimes used to refer to the fourth community card dealt in Hold'em, although the more common term for this is TURN (q.v.).
- WHITE BLACKBIRD - A hand so astonishingly rare as to be unworthy of the opponents' consideration, e.g., being dealt a pat royal flush in 5-card draw.
- SHARK - A good/crafty player often posing as a fish early in the game.
- FACE CARD - A jack, queen or king (a card with a face on it, not joker).
- BARN - A FULL HOUSE, three of a kind and a pair.
- LOWBALL - Generic term for poker where the lowest hand wins.
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