PokerStars EPT Kyiv: Big Names Flourish and Flounder on Day 1B
Today, the Kyiv Sport Palace saw the second and final flight of Day 1 runners take to the felt in the inaugural PokerStars.net EPT Kyiv. By the time registration closed, 167 players had been given chip stacks for Day 1b…
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Useful poker information:
- LATE POSITION - For a particular betting round, a player who does not have to act until most of the other players have acted.
- MUCK - [1] A collection of face-down cards near the dealer composed of discards, i.e., folded hands, burns and discards for drawing purposes. [2] To throw one's cards into the muck, thus folding.
- BRODERICK CRAWFORD - In Hold'em, hole cards of 10-4. From the 1950s TV series "Highway Patrol", starring Broderick Crawford.
- LOWBALL - Generic term for poker where the lowest hand wins.
- CASE - The fourth card of a particular rank, as in "he folded the case 9" when describing where all the 9s were in a hand. Comes from the game of Faro where an employee of the house, called the "case keeper". kept track of the number of each rank of card remaining.
- DEAD MAN'S HAND - Generically: two pair, aces and eights. Specifically: the black aces, black eights and nine of diamonds. The hand Wild Bill Hickok was holding when he was shot to death.
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