Commerce Casino attracts largest WPT field ever
The L.A. Poker Classic Championship (LAPC) event at Commerce Casino smashed records for largest field and largest prize money ever for a $10,000-buy-in World Poker Tour® (WPT) event and for a WPT event in the continental U.S. The 790 field of established pros and aspiring amateurs swelled the prize money to a whopping $7,593.600.
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Poker terminology:
- DRAW OUT - To catch a card that improves your situation from a losing hand to a winning hand, especially when you beat someone holding a hand that usually figures to win.
- ROLLED UP - In seven-card stud, being dealt three of a kind in the first three cards.
- BICYCLE - The best possible low hand: A-2-3-4-5. More common term: WHEEL.
- 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.
- HOOK - A Jack. So named because the "J" resembles a hook.
- LOOSE - Playing more hands than the norm. Antonym: TIGHT.
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