Economy a Factor for WSOP
The World Series of Poker underwent a boom around the time that the online poker rooms were getting their foothold on the imagination of the world’s poker players. These rooms offered a chance to win a $10k seat into the WSOP that some players wouldn’t otherwise have, and were responsible for pushing thousands of players into the WSOP in years past. Last year attendance dropped due to many of those rooms pulling back from US players…
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Poker dictionary:
- POSSIBLE [STRAIGHT/FLUSH] - Up cards that quite possibly could lead to a straight and/or a flush.
- OPENER - The player who opens the betting, especially in draw poker. A hand may have no openers, in which case it is PASSED OUT, i.e., new hands are dealt.
- FLUSH - A poker hand consisting of five cards all one suit.
- UNDER THE GUN - The position that has to act first in a round of betting.
- OVERPAIR - In Hold'em, a pair in the hole that is larger than any community card on the board.
- DEAD MAN'S HAND - Generically: two pair, aces and eights. Specifically: the black aces, black eights and nine of diamonds. The hand Wild Bill Hickok was holding when he was shot to death.
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