Women’s Poker Spotlight: Clonie Gowen Wins World Poker Open Main Event
Nine players returned to the Gold Strike Casino on Tuesday to take their seats at the final table of the World Poker Open’s $5,000 buy-in. The chip leader of those final nine was professional poker player Clonie Gowen…
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Useful poker terms:
- FULL OF - Describes a full house. "Fives full of queens" is 5-5-5-Q-Q.
- BIG BOBTAIL - An open-ended 4-card straight flush.
- CUT - To break the deck into 2 stacks of at least 5 cards each. Usually performed by the player to the dealer's right to insure that the the deck is not stacked.
- FILL - To draw a card that makes a five-card hand (straight, flush, full house, straight flush).
- BARN - A FULL HOUSE, three of a kind and a pair.
- BAD-BEAT JACKPOT - In some cardrooms, a prize that is shared by the players in a game, when a very good hand (usually Aces full, or better) is beaten by a higher hand. Jackpots are usually financed by taking a drop ($1 is a common amount) from every pot. A typical division of the jackpot will give the losing hand 50 %, the winning hand 25 %, and the other players at the table share the remaining 25 % of the Jackpot.
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