Asian Poker Tour Qualifiers
Online poker room Bodog Poker offers its players a chance to travel to Macau to play in the Asian Poker Tour, if they can win the APT Macau Seat Giveaway Finale, set to play on August 2nd. To get into the Finale players can play in a direct qualifier for $320 that runs on Sundays, or they can play in one of the four times a day freerolls running to the end of the month. Players who win the Finale will get a $8,000 prize package that includes the APT Macau buy-in of $5,300, airfare, spending money, and a six night stay at the Galaxy Star World Hotel and Casino.
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Casino poker language:
- BIG BLIND - A blind bet, usually a raise of an earlier blind which would be called the SMALL BLIND. In limit poker, the BIG BLIND is usually the size of the minimum bet on the first round of betting.
- DRAW OUT - To catch a card that improves your situation from a losing hand to a winning hand, especially when you beat someone holding a hand that usually figures to win.
- FLUSH - A poker hand consisting of five cards all one suit.
- BACK DOOR - Applies to a hand that was made in the last card or two, specifically not a hand the player was originally planning on having. Most often applied to straights and flushes.
- OVER - A term used in describing two pair or a full house. "Kings over tens" means two pair, kings and tens. "Jacks over", also "Jacks up" describes a hand that is two pair: Jacks with an unspecified lower pair. Also used to describe a full house, distinguishing the three of a kind from the pair. The hand J-J-J-A-A could be described as "Full house, Jacks over Aces".
- SPREAD LIMIT - A variation on fixed limit wherein the minimum and maximum bets are different. A 1-4-8 game allows bets from 1 to 4 in the early rounds and 1-8 in the last round. A 1-4-8-16 game allows bets from 1 to 4 in the early rounds, 1 to 8 in the next-to-last round, and 1 to 16 in the last round.
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