Poker Players and Oscar Winners
The Weekly Edition, an OCR Live! production in which Kate brings you the headlines for the past week, including a contentious arrest of poker players, a lawsuit filed against a bookie for one bettor’s losses, and prop bets at the Oscars.
Related Poker News:
- 2011 EPT Tallinn Day 1b: Oscar Lima Leads From Start to Finish
- VictoryPoker.net Participates in Oscar Gift Lounge and Charity Poker Tournament for Haiti
- Damon, Affleck's poker charity to help genocide victims in Darfur
- World Series of Poker Ladies Champion Jeniffer Tilly Skips Academy Awards for Poker
- Three prior poker series winners eliminated from HORSE
- Jennifer Tilly chooses poker over Oscar parties
- She’s lucky in poker and B’way
- Poker Book Review: Alan Schoonmaker’s ‘Poker Winners Are Different’
- Online Poker Weekend: Robert ‘perky264′ Perkins Wins Full Tilt $750,000 Guarantee
- Aussie Millions, Event #11, PokerPro No-Limit Hold ‘Em: ‘Timex’ Takes It
- ‘onemnblitz’ and ‘montrealphil’ Win Poker Source Online Winter Leagues
- The Sunday Briefing: Chance “Chances Cards” Kornuth Among Sunday’s Big Winners
Poker lingo:
- TAP - In no-limit games, to wager all of one's money in one bet.
- FAVORITE - Before all the cards are dealt, a hand that figures to be the winner. Ant: UNDERDOG.
- EVEN-MONEY - A bet that pays off exactly the amount wagered. E.g., "Double or nothing" is an even-money bet.
- STAKE - The amount of a player's BUY-IN, or the amount of money they are willing to play with in a given session. Compare: BANKROLL.
- FLOP - [1] In Hold'em, the first three community cards, dealt simultaneously. [2] To deal a flop, or to make a hand on a flop. "I flopped trips".
- OVERCALL - To call a bet after one or more players already called.
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