Poker ace plays safe with £250k winnings
Professional poker player Marty Smyth had a winning hand in 2007, scooping a cool £250,000 in a pre-Christmas tournament and 650,000 (around £470,000) at Easter.
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Poker lexicon:
- IN - Still eligible to win the pot. "I'm in" is often spoken as one adds chips to the pot, calling.
- COMPUTER HAND - Texas Hold'em hole cards of Q-7 offsuit. More generically, any hand that computer analysis/simulation determines is positive but turns out to be difficult to play in practice.
- SIXTH STREET - The sixth card dealt in 7-card stud.
- BET FOR VALUE - Betting a hand that, in the long run, is expected to win more than it loses. Antonym: BLUFF.
- TIGHT - [1] A style of play that entails playing fewer hands than average. Antonym: LOOSE. [2] A FULL HOUSE.
- RAIL - A barrier dividing the card playing area from a public area.
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