WCOOP – Event #10, $320 NLHE Heads-Up: ‘ugotmeyet?’ Takes Match Play Gold
The PokerStars World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) began its second week of action on Friday as the $320 No-Limit Hold’em Match Play Event #10 kicked things off. The event drew 1,886 entrants and generated a $565,800 prize pool…
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Useful poker information:
- WHITE BLACKBIRD - A hand so astonishingly rare as to be unworthy of the opponents' consideration, e.g., being dealt a pat royal flush in 5-card draw.
- PROP - Also PROPOSITION PLAYER. An employee of the gaming establishment whose primary purpose is to keep enough players at a table to prevent breaking up the game for lack of players. Unlike SHILLs "props" make a small hourly wage but play with their own money, winning or losing based on their skill.
- JOKER - A 53rd card in the deck, distinct from the others, used as a wild card or as a BUG.
- LIVE ONE - The best kind of opponent, a poor player with a lot of money to lose and in a hurry to lose it.
- RUSH - A winning streak. Also "ON A RUSH".
- CASE - The fourth card of a particular rank, as in "he folded the case 9" when describing where all the 9s were in a hand. Comes from the game of Faro where an employee of the house, called the "case keeper". kept track of the number of each rank of card remaining.
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