UPDATE: Beaver Dam native wins big in World Series of Poker
The cards were in Eric Baldwins favor as the Beaver Dam native won more than $500,000 in the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas earlier this month. Baldwin, a graduate of UW-Whitewater, topped a field of 2,095 players to finish first in the No-Limit Holdem event at the Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino on June 18. The 26-year-old pocketed $521,991 in cash, according to a WSOP news release. After …
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Poker lexicon:
- BURN - To discard the top card of the deck prior to dealing, usually done for every dealing round except the first. The theory being that if somehow the cards are marked (illegally) no one will know what card will next be dealt, only what card will be burned. This makes marked cards less of an advantage, hence tends to reduce cheating.
- RACE - In tournaments it is sometimes convenient to remove all lower-denomination chips from play, as the remaining players' stacks tend to grow. Small chips are converted to larger chips and any odd chips are "raced off" in the following way: each player with odd chips places them in front of his stack and is dealt one card for each chip. Highest card (rank and suit) takes all the small chips and converts them to higher-denomination chips.
- RAINBOW - In flop games, a flop in which no two cards are of the same suit. "The flop was A 9 7 rainbow."
- CARDS SPEAK - Winner(s) of the hand are determined by turning their cards face up, the best hand(s) wins (no declaration).
- FLAT CALL - To call a bet. Emphasizes that the caller did not raise.
- SIDE POT - When an active player runs out of money during the course of a hand, the remaining players participate in a second or SIDE POT for the rest of the hand. Additional side pots are possible if several players run out of money at different points in a hand.
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