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:
- Damon, Affleck's poker charity to help genocide victims in Darfur
- World Series of Poker Ladies Champion Jeniffer Tilly Skips Academy Awards for Poker
- Jennifer Tilly chooses poker over Oscar parties
- Aussie Millions, Event #11, PokerPro No-Limit Hold ‘Em: ‘Timex’ Takes It
- ‘onemnblitz’ and ‘montrealphil’ Win Poker Source Online Winter Leagues
- 2007 WSOP Online Satellite Winners May Suffer Bad Beat
- Big Winners with Everest Poker
- Casinos: Poker winners must do tax form
- IRS to poker winners: Pay up!
- Jennifer Tilly skips Oscars for high-stakes poker game
- CelebPoker Sending Online Poker Winners to Switzerland
- Tax Time Coming for Poker Players
Useful poker terms:
- TO GO - The current betting level, as in "$20 to go" meaning every player must contribute $20 (total) or drop. A $10 raise would then make the pot "$30 to go".
- SHORT-STACKED - Playing with a only a small amount of money, thus limiting one's risk and reward.
- HIGH-LOW SPLIT - Forms of poker in which the pot is split between the best hand and best lowball hand.
- POT ODDS - The amount of money in the pot divided by the amount of money you must bet in order to call. Often used to determine if a pot offers enough reward to play on the come.
- FOLD - To decline to call a bet, thus dropping out of a hand.
- BAD-BEAT JACKPOT - In some cardrooms, a prize that is shared by the players in a game, when a very good hand (usually Aces full, or better) is beaten by a higher hand. Jackpots are usually financed by taking a drop ($1 is a common amount) from every pot. A typical division of the jackpot will give the losing hand 50 %, the winning hand 25 %, and the other players at the table share the remaining 25 % of the Jackpot.
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