Florida Player Goes All In to Win Poker Tourney
When Florida attorney Michael Gaetjens walked by the All In Energy Drink booth, he made a decision that wound up worth $100,000 to him. He bought a few cases of the drink, which got him a pass into an All In Poker Tourney. He played and won the event, which landed him $100,000 and an entry into the 2008 World Series of Poker Main Event, going on now…
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Poker glossary:
- STUD - Any of several poker games in which some of each players' cards are exposed.
- LIVE BLIND - The last and largest blind bet may or may not be LIVE. If LIVE, the blind bettor has the option of "raising" his own blind in the event the bet is called around to him. This is normal, and is sometimes referred to as "blinds are live".
- 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.
- BICYCLE - The best possible low hand: A-2-3-4-5. More common term: WHEEL.
- STRING BET - An unethical and often illegal means of raising whereby a player puts a call-size stack of chips into the pot and, after observing the reactions of the players, then goes back to his stack and puts out more, thus raising.
- LIMIT POKER - A poker game wherein the amount to be bet is fixed, or at most variable within a prescribed minimum and maximum. Ant.: NO-LIMIT POKER.
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