WCOOP – Event #23, $5,200 NLHE: ‘TheV0id’ Conquers Main Event Field
The PokerStars World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) concluded Sunday with Event #23, the No Limit Hold ‘Em $2,600 Main Event. This year’s event had a guaranteed prize pool of $5,000,000, which was yet again not needed…
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- WCOOP – Event #14, $1,050 NLHE: James ‘mig.com’ Mackay Takes It
- WCOOP – Event #20, $530 NLHE Triple Shootout: ‘lyerly_’ Survives Outage to Win
- WCOOP – Event #5, $530 NLHE: ‘AB_illusive’ Pulls Out Comeback Win
- WCOOP – Event #17, $320 NLHE 6-Max: ‘pes4fans’ Takes Short-Handed Title
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- WCOOP Day 11: Ryan “g0lfa” D’Angelo Claims Second WCOOP Bracelet This Year
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- PokerStars 2008 WCOOP Day 12 Summary Report: Double Chop Highlights $500+30 NLHE 1R/1A Final
- WCOOP – Event #6, $320 PLO: Greg ‘FossilMan’ Raymer Wins First WCOOP Title
Poker dictionary:
- ANTE - A small bet all players are required to make before a hand is dealt. Not all games have an ante. Related terms: BLIND, FORCED BET.
- SUICIDE KING - King of Hearts. So named because in the drawing the king appears to be stabbing himself in the head.
- WORLD SERIES OF POKER - A series of several different poker games with relatively large buy-ins, culminating in a $10,000 buy-in no-limit Hold'em tournament, the winner of which is crowned the World Poker Champion. Sponsored by Binion's Horseshoe Club in Las Vegas.
- POT - The total amount of money bet so far in a hand.
- HOYLE - Edmund Hoyle (1769-?) was the authoritative source for rules of card games. Hoyle is to card rules as Webster is to word definitions.
- BIG BLIND - A blind bet, usually a raise of an earlier blind which would be called the SMALL BLIND. In limit poker, the BIG BLIND is usually the size of the minimum bet on the first round of betting.
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