Young Gun Wins Shootout at WSOP
The winner of one of the more interesting events at the 2008 World Series of Poker, Event 17, $1,500 NL Shootout, is Jason Young. Exactly 1,000 players showed up to start the event, which required each player who wished to advance to win the table they started at. Round two players were all competing for a spot at the final table…
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Poker lexicon:
- FAMILY POT - A pot where all of the players at the table are participating, even after each has had an opportunity to act.
- FREE CARD - A card dealt after all players checked in a betting round.
- COMMUNITY CARDS - Cards that are available for every player to use in making a hand. Usually dealt face up somewhere in the middle of the table.
- SHARK - A good/crafty player often posing as a fish early in the game.
- FISH - A player who loses money. An old saying is "If you can't spot the fish at the table, *you* are the fish.".
- 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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