WSOP Stories — Poker Hall of Fame: The Growth of Our Roots
This year’s WSOP’s Poker Hall of Fame inductees were Barbara Enright and Phil Hellmuth. Much will be made of their individual and unique accomplishments; the first woman inductee and the milestone eleventh bracelet winner. But in…
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Poker jargon:
- QUALIFIER - A minimum standard that a hand must meet in order to win. Usually applied to the lowball side of a high-low split pot.
- SHARK - A good/crafty player often posing as a fish early in the game.
- FOLD - To decline to call a bet, thus dropping out of a hand.
- UNDERDOG - Before all the cards are dealt, a hand that does not figure to be the winner. Ant: FAVORITE.
- SIDE POT - When an active player runs out of money during the course of a hand, the remaining players participate in a second or SIDE POT for the rest of the hand. Additional side pots are possible if several players run out of money at different points in a hand.
- POCKET ROCKETS - In Hold'em, a pair of aces for hole cards.
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