UA student snares $408,550 in poker
Shorr, 23, a business major who maintains a 3.5 GPA, worked his way to the World Poker Tour Championship Sunday. He finished fifth at a final table of six, according to Cardplayer.com.
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Poker talk:
- FOURTH STREET - In stud poker, the fourth card dealt to each player. Sometimes used to refer to the fourth community card dealt in Hold'em, although the more common term for this is TURN (q.v.).
- 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.
- MIDDLE POSITION - Betting positions approximately halfway around the table from the first player to act.
- HOYLE - Edmund Hoyle (1769-?) was the authoritative source for rules of card games. Hoyle is to card rules as Webster is to word definitions.
- 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.
- LOCK - A hand that cannot be beat under any circumstances. Also: NUTS.
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