Professional Poker Player Phil Ivey Wins Big and Gives Back to Charity
On the heels of winning last week’s L.A. Poker Classic and his first World Poker Tour bracelet, and then placing third in this weekend’s NBC National Heads Up Championship, the usually private and reserved poker professional Phil Ivey made a generous $50,000 donation to Empowered 2 Excel, a local Las Vegas Christian Academy.
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Poker slang:
- STACKED [DECK] - A deck that has been arranged to give one player a huge advantage. Also: RIGGED.
- BELLY BUSTER - An inside straight draw. Same as GUTSHOT.
- HIT - To make a hand or catch a card or cards that improves one's hand. "I hit a gut-shot draw on the river."
- RACE - In tournaments it is sometimes convenient to remove all lower-denomination chips from play, as the remaining players' stacks tend to grow. Small chips are converted to larger chips and any odd chips are "raced off" in the following way: each player with odd chips places them in front of his stack and is dealt one card for each chip. Highest card (rank and suit) takes all the small chips and converts them to higher-denomination chips.
- CASE - The fourth card of a particular rank, as in "he folded the case 9" when describing where all the 9s were in a hand. Comes from the game of Faro where an employee of the house, called the "case keeper". kept track of the number of each rank of card remaining.
- UNDERDOG - Before all the cards are dealt, a hand that does not figure to be the winner. Ant: FAVORITE.
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