APAT World Amateur Poker Championship at the Grosvenor Victoria Casino, London
APAT Hosted the World Amateur Poker Championship in London on the final weekend of August. This is the tournament report to accompany the main No Limit Hold Em Event.
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Poker dictionary:
- CRYING CALL - A call made with little chance of ultimately winning, but marginally better than an immediate fold.
- CAP - To cap the betting is to make the last permitted raise in a round.
- LOCK - A hand that cannot be beat under any circumstances. Also: NUTS.
- CASE - The fourth card of a particular rank, as in "he folded the case 9" when describing where all the 9s were in a hand. Comes from the game of Faro where an employee of the house, called the "case keeper". kept track of the number of each rank of card remaining.
- STUD - Any of several poker games in which some of each players' cards are exposed.
- DRAW - [1] A class of poker games characterized by players being dealt 5 cards face-down and later having the opportunity to replace some of the original 5. "Draw poker" and "Five-card draw" are examples of usage. [2] In stud and Hold'em games, the set of cards that will be dealt later can be collectively called "the draw". [3] To discard some number of cards and have dealt an equal number of replacements.
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