WCOOP – Event #22, $1,050 LHE: ‘Sowerss’ Claims Limit Bracelet
The PokerStars World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) continued on Saturday, with Event #22, $1,050 Limit Hold ‘Em, the last tourney before the Main Event. The guaranteed prize pool of $200,000 was again not needed as the 616 participants…
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Poker lingo:
- HIGH-LOW SPLIT - Forms of poker in which the pot is split between the best hand and best lowball hand.
- 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.
- TABLE STAKES - A standard rule whereby during a hand players can only bet the money they have on the table. If the bet to a player is more than the player's stack, that player may call with all his chips and be eligible to win only that portion of the pot he contributed to equally. A side pot is created, for which only the remaining players may compete.
- FREEROLL - [1] A poker tournament that does not charge a buy-in fee; players must earn buy-in credits through previous play at the same establishment. [2] Having a lock on part of a pot (sure to win a greater fraction of the pot than one is betting) and playing to win more or all of it.
- ROLLED UP - In seven-card stud, being dealt three of a kind in the first three cards.
- FULL HOUSE - A hand consisting of 3-of-a-kind and a (different) pair.
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