No WSOP Champ at Macau Poker Event
While Jerry Yang was scheduled to appear at the Asian-Pacific Poker Tour event in Macau, and in fact did his best to appear at the event, problems with his Visa kept him in the United States. The event, the first ever of its kind in the People’s Republic of China, is sponsored by PokerStars online poker room, which also sponsors the current World Series of Poker champ Yang. While Yang is a resident of the US, he holds refuge status, and thus needed a Visa to enter Hong Kong…
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Poker dictionary:
- HIGH-LOW SPLIT - Forms of poker in which the pot is split between the best hand and best lowball hand.
- LIVE BLIND - The last and largest blind bet may or may not be LIVE. If LIVE, the blind bettor has the option of "raising" his own blind in the event the bet is called around to him. This is normal, and is sometimes referred to as "blinds are live".
- BUNNY - An eight. So named because one can easily draw "rabbit ears" above the numeral 8, "paws" in the middle and "feet" at the bottom. (Do this only at home, and not on cards that will be used for play.)
- MUCK - [1] A collection of face-down cards near the dealer composed of discards, i.e., folded hands, burns and discards for drawing purposes. [2] To throw one's cards into the muck, thus folding.
- MARKED CARDS - Cards that have been (illegally) altered so that their value can be read from the back.
- REPRESENT - Implying, by one's betting style, that one has a particular hand.
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