2008 WSOP Event #21, $5,000 NLHE, Day 1: Alex Melnikow Leads
Last year, the $5,000 NLHE event drew 640 players with James"mig.com" Mackey claiming top honors. This year’s event drew 731 players with a winner yet to be determined. When the bracelet is ultimately awarded, however, it will…
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Poker lexicon:
- SUITED - Two or more cards all the same suit. Ant: OFF-SUIT.
- LITTLE SLICK - In Hold'em, hole cards of A-2, suited or not.
- 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".
- 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.
- PROP - Also PROPOSITION PLAYER. An employee of the gaming establishment whose primary purpose is to keep enough players at a table to prevent breaking up the game for lack of players. Unlike SHILLs "props" make a small hourly wage but play with their own money, winning or losing based on their skill.
- 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.
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