Chad: Olympics can’t compete with World Series of Poker
This summer, a fractured world is gathering in two distinct locales Beijing and Las Vegas for one-in-a-kind global competition. The Sum- mer Olympics begin Aug. 8; the World Series of Poker Main Event begins Thursday. Let me count the ways the WSOP is better than the Olympiad:
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Poker argot:
- WORLD SERIES OF POKER - A series of several different poker games with relatively large buy-ins, culminating in a $10,000 buy-in no-limit Hold'em tournament, the winner of which is crowned the World Poker Champion. Sponsored by Binion's Horseshoe Club in Las Vegas.
- RAINBOW - In flop games, a flop in which no two cards are of the same suit. "The flop was A 9 7 rainbow."
- STUCK - Down a nontrivial amount of money, as in "he's stuck $800".
- PAT - Holding or being dealt a pat hand. "I'm pat" would mean "I don't want to draw any cards.
- TABLE STAKES - A standard rule whereby during a hand players can only bet the money they have on the table. If the bet to a player is more than the player's stack, that player may call with all his chips and be eligible to win only that portion of the pot he contributed to equally. A side pot is created, for which only the remaining players may compete.
- COMPUTER HAND - Texas Hold'em hole cards of Q-7 offsuit. More generically, any hand that computer analysis/simulation determines is positive but turns out to be difficult to play in practice.
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