WPT Season V launches April 4th on the Travel Channel
The global leader in poker entertainment, WPT Enterprises, Inc., today announced that the television premiere of the World Poker Tour®’s (WPT) fifth anniversary season will launch Wednesday, April 4 at 9pm ET/PT on the Travel Channel(TM) with The Mirage Poker Showdown kicking off the new season.
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Poker jargon:
- TOP PAIR - In flop games, having a hole card that matches the highest card on the board.
- READ - To determine whether an opponent has a good, medium or bad hand by observing his personal behavior. An inexact science.
- PAT - Holding or being dealt a pat hand. "I'm pat" would mean "I don't want to draw any cards.
- MITES AND LICE - A hand consisting of two pair, threes over twos.
- UNDERDOG - Before all the cards are dealt, a hand that does not figure to be the winner. Ant: FAVORITE.
- DEAD MAN'S HAND - Generically: two pair, aces and eights. Specifically: the black aces, black eights and nine of diamonds. The hand Wild Bill Hickok was holding when he was shot to death.
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