WSOP Updates – Event # 38 – Cheung Victorious; Schoenberg Finishes Third
The World Series of Poker continued Monday afternoon with the conclusion of the Event #38, the $1,500 No Limit Hold’em tournament. Narrowed from a capacity field of 2,778 players, the final nine players returned…
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Poker terminology:
- CHASE - To continue in a hand, often at poor odds, in the hopes of catching a much better hand. "He called, chasing the flush.".
- CRYING CALL - A call made with little chance of ultimately winning, but marginally better than an immediate fold.
- LIMIT POKER - A poker game wherein the amount to be bet is fixed, or at most variable within a prescribed minimum and maximum. Ant.: NO-LIMIT POKER.
- STAKE - The amount of a player's BUY-IN, or the amount of money they are willing to play with in a given session. Compare: BANKROLL.
- 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.
- TRIPS - Three of a kind. In Hold'em the term SET is used when two of the three cards are hole cards.
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