WSOP Updates – Event #35, $1,500 NLHE — Dirksen Grabs Another Day One Lead
A sizeable field of 2,541 players overflowed both the Amazon Room and the Poker Pavilion for Thursday’s start of Event #35, $1,500 No Limit Hold ‘Em. Dustin Dirksen took a sizable Day One lead for the second time in this year’s WSOP…
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Poker lexicon:
- 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.
- HIGH-LOW SPLIT - Forms of poker in which the pot is split between the best hand and best lowball hand.
- GUT SHOT - A draw to an inside straight, as in 2-3-4-6.
- SHARK - A good/crafty player often posing as a fish early in the game.
- MUCK - [1] A collection of face-down cards near the dealer composed of discards, i.e., folded hands, burns and discards for drawing purposes. [2] To throw one's cards into the muck, thus folding.
- HIT - To make a hand or catch a card or cards that improves one's hand. "I hit a gut-shot draw on the river."
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