Carlos Mortensen Wins the 2007 WPT Championship
Who said that nice guys don’t finish first? Carlos Mortensen is living proof after he won the 2007 WPT Championship at Bellagio in Las Vegas. He collected almost $4 million for first place and made history….
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Poker glossary:
- READ - To determine whether an opponent has a good, medium or bad hand by observing his personal behavior. An inexact science.
- SHILL - A card room employee who plays with House money, and does not share in any of his (her) winnings or losses. Shills are used to facilitate starting games, and keeping them going. Compare: PROP.
- FREEZE-OUT - A table-stakes game that continues until a small number of players (possibly only one) has all the money. The major event in The World Series of Poker is a freeze-out game.
- ONE-EYED - The jack of hearts, jack of spades or king of diamonds. So named because the characters are drawn in profile, thus showing only one eye.
- TRIP - Three of a specific kind, as in "Trip sixes".
- SCOOP - To take all of a pot that is normally split, either by winning both halves outright or winning one half when no players qualify for the other half.
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