Hundreds expected for poker tournament
BOB BOUGHNER The Daily News More than 400 amateur poker players have been invited to Sundays regional championship tournament in Chatham. The day-long event, sponsored by the World Poker Tour Amateur Poker League, will take place at Encore Bar on Richmond Street.[…]
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Poker lexicon:
- TRIPS - Three of a kind. In Hold'em the term SET is used when two of the three cards are hole cards.
- MAIN POT - The main pot, as related to one or more side pots, when there are one or more all-in player(s). The main pot is the one in which all active players participate.
- SUITED - Two or more cards all the same suit. Ant: OFF-SUIT.
- HOYLE - Edmund Hoyle (1769-?) was the authoritative source for rules of card games. Hoyle is to card rules as Webster is to word definitions.
- LIVE BLIND - The last and largest blind bet may or may not be LIVE. If LIVE, the blind bettor has the option of "raising" his own blind in the event the bet is called around to him. This is normal, and is sometimes referred to as "blinds are live".
- 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.
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