WSOP Updates – Event #34, $3,000 LHE — Alexander Borteh Wins Limit Title
The last nine players from a starting field of 296 assembled on Friday for the final table of Event #34, $3,000 Limit Hold ‘Em, chasing WSOP gold and a first-place cash of $225,483. The action was fast, as two players were eliminated…
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Useful poker information:
- SHOWDOWN - The point at the end of the hand where all active players reveal their cards and the pot is awarded to the winner(s).
- POCKET ROCKETS - In Hold'em, a pair of aces for hole cards.
- PAT HAND - In draw poker, a hand that does not need any more cards. Specifically, a straight, flush, full house or straight flush. One might bluff and represent a pat hand but actually hold something else.
- FREE CARD - A card dealt after all players checked in a betting round.
- FIFTH STREET - In stud poker, the fifth card to be dealt to each player. Sometimes used to refer to the last card dealt in Hold'em, although the more common term for this is RIVER (q.v.).
- 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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