Tables turning: Finalists come into focus for poker tourney
The final table at the World Series of Poker’s main event includes a logger from rural Maryland, a former Wall Street executive, an angry magazine editor, and one of the game’s most successful players.
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Useful poker terms:
- FIXED LIMIT - A betting structure where the amount of each bet is a specific fixed quantity. Usually specified as A-B, where A is the amount to bet in the first few betting rounds and B (larger than A) is the amount bet in the later rounds. Related terms: FLAT LIMIT, NO LIMIT, POT LIMIT, SPREAD LIMIT.
- ONE-EYED - The jack of hearts, jack of spades or king of diamonds. So named because the characters are drawn in profile, thus showing only one eye.
- CHASE - To continue in a hand, often at poor odds, in the hopes of catching a much better hand. "He called, chasing the flush.".
- 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.
- DEAD MONEY - Money contributed to the pot by players who have folded.
- OVERCALL - To call a bet after one or more players already called.
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