College Officials Cancel Poker Tournament
The charity poker tournament slated to be played on site at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill was canceled recently by university officials. The stated reason for shutting down the event, which was expected to bring in more than $25k for charity, was its questionable legality. Holdem for Hunger 2008 (HEFH) was going to kick off on April 20th and raise money for the local college chapter of Nourish International…
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Useful poker information:
- QUARTER - [1] Twenty-five dollars, often symbolized by a green casino chip. [2] To divide half a pot between two tying hands. In split pot games, a player who "ties" another player for their half of the pot is said to be "quartered". One might say "I didn't bet my A-2 because I figured I'd get quartered".
- FAMILY POT - A pot where all of the players at the table are participating, even after each has had an opportunity to act.
- LIMIT POKER - A poker game wherein the amount to be bet is fixed, or at most variable within a prescribed minimum and maximum. Ant.: NO-LIMIT POKER.
- 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.
- DRAWING DEAD - A draw in which it is impossible to obtain a winning hand for any of a variety of reasons: an opponent's hand is better than whatever you are drawing to, the card(s) that make your hand are out of play, or (in Hold'em) give an opponent a stronger hand even if it makes yours. Frequently used in the past tense, since one rarely knows it at the time.
- SET - In Hold'em, three of a kind where two of the cards are hole cards.
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