PokerStars LAPT Grand Final Day 1b: Robin Chesne Takes Lead

The overall field for the PokerStars.net LAPT Mar del Plata more than doubled on Day 1b, as 151 players came out to join the 140 from Day 1a. This field was stacked, with 2005 WSOP Main Event champ Joe Hachem leading a field that included several…

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Useful poker terms:

• QUARTER - [1] Twenty-five dollars, often symbolized by a green casino chip. [2] To divide half a pot between two tying hands. In split pot games, a player who "ties" another player for their half of the pot is said to be "quartered". One might say "I didn't bet my A-2 because I figured I'd get quartered".
• TRIPS - Three of a kind. In Hold'em the term SET is used when two of the three cards are hole cards.
• LEAK - To show one's hole cards (often unknowingly).
• STRAIGHT FLUSH - A hand consisting of 5 cards in sequence and the same suit.
• STRAIGHT - A hand consisting of 5 cards in sequence but not in suit.
• 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.