Online Poker Player Grabs Canadian Open Title

May 20 - In a great head to head game against WSOP champ Jeff Madsen, online poker amateur Benjamin LaBlond took home the title and $100K.

FLOP - [1] In Hold'em, the first three community cards, dealt simultaneously. [2] To deal a flop, or to make a hand on a flop. "I flopped trips".
TRIPS - Three of a kind. In Hold'em the term SET is used when two of the three cards are hole cards.
RAKE - Money taken from each pot and given to the house in return for hosting the game. Usually a percentage of the pot (5%-10%) up to some maximum amount.
TOKE - Gambling term for "tip", as in "Toke the cocktail waitress". Comes from the term "Token of appreciation".
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.
FOUR OF A KIND - A hand containing all four cards of the same rank.