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 lingo:
- CALLER - One who calls. Sometimes used collectively, as in "3 callers".
- POSSIBLE [STRAIGHT/FLUSH] - Up cards that quite possibly could lead to a straight and/or a flush.
- QUALIFIER - A minimum standard that a hand must meet in order to win. Usually applied to the lowball side of a high-low split pot.
- FOURTH STREET - In stud poker, the fourth card dealt to each player. Sometimes used to refer to the fourth community card dealt in Hold'em, although the more common term for this is TURN (q.v.).
- MITES AND LICE - A hand consisting of two pair, threes over twos.
- FISH - A player who loses money. An old saying is "If you can't spot the fish at the table, *you* are the fish.".
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