He Said, She Said, Vol. 9: Jamie Gold vs. Sam Farha
The hand (from an entertaining episode of "High Stakes Poker") — Blinds: 300/600 with a 1200 straddle. Gold’s stack: ~$391,000; Farha’s stack: Over $391,000. Neither player’s stack is actually given specifically during the hand…
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Useful poker terms:
- MUCK - [1] A collection of face-down cards near the dealer composed of discards, i.e., folded hands, burns and discards for drawing purposes. [2] To throw one's cards into the muck, thus folding.
- 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.
- BELLY BUSTER - An inside straight draw. Same as GUTSHOT.
- NUT / NUTS - The best possible hand of a given class. Not a LOCK unless all cards have been dealt. The "nut flush" is the highest possible flush, but might still lose to, e.g., a full house. Usually used in Hold'em games.
- SPREAD LIMIT - A variation on fixed limit wherein the minimum and maximum bets are different. A 1-4-8 game allows bets from 1 to 4 in the early rounds and 1-8 in the last round. A 1-4-8-16 game allows bets from 1 to 4 in the early rounds, 1 to 8 in the next-to-last round, and 1 to 16 in the last round.
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