TAKE FIVE: WORLD POKER TOUR AT THE BELLAGIO
The sixth annual Five Diamond tournament has become a major stop on the World Poker Tour, the lucrative, made-for-TV tournament circuit that now includes 21 stops at sites from Las Vegas, Los Angeles and Reno to Spain and the Turks and Caicos Islands.
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Poker slang:
- POCKET ROCKETS - In Hold'em, a pair of aces for hole cards.
- ON THE COME - A situation where the player does not have a complete hand but hopes to make one if the right cards come up.
- TAP - In no-limit games, to wager all of one's money in one bet.
- TOURNAMENT - A highly structured game involving potentially dozens of tables where all participants pay an entry fee and obtain a fixed number of chips. Once a tournament has started, additional players may not enter. As the game progresses players bust out and are eliminated until only one winner remains.
- LATE POSITION - For a particular betting round, a player who does not have to act until most of the other players have acted.
- SUICIDE KING - King of Hearts. So named because in the drawing the king appears to be stabbing himself in the head.
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