Newly designed ‘poker superstructure’ and improvements at this year’s WSOP
Players competing in this year’s World Series of Poker can expect to find a richer variety of games taking place in a newly designed “poker superstructure” adjacent to the Rio, but not much of a…
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Poker jargon:
- TAP - In no-limit games, to wager all of one's money in one bet.
- DEAD MONEY - Money contributed to the pot by players who have folded.
- CUT - To break the deck into 2 stacks of at least 5 cards each. Usually performed by the player to the dealer's right to insure that the the deck is not stacked.
- HOYLE - Edmund Hoyle (1769-?) was the authoritative source for rules of card games. Hoyle is to card rules as Webster is to word definitions.
- WHEEL - A-2-3-4-5. Usually discussed in the context of lowball where it is the best possible hand. Can also refer to a 5-high straight in high games. Also: BICYCLE.
- BLACK - When referring to chips, black usually stands for $100 casino chips. "This guy sits down with a stack of blacks and raises the first bet." Not ALL casinos use black for $100 but that is the common usage.
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