Inside Poker: 8/23/2009
Andy Bloch decided to pull a Phil Hellmuth, showing up late for the World Poker Tour’s $15,000-buy-in Doyle Brunson Five Diamond World Poker Classic at Bellagio in Las Vegas in 2008. His first hand from that event provides a good example of why you should leave such intentional tardiness to Hellmuth, even if you’re a world-class tournament
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Poker glossary:
- RERAISE - To raise after an opponent has raised.
- LIVE [CARD] - In Stud, a card probably not held by other players.
- PASSED OUT. - A hand in which nobody opens. What happens next is a function of the game being played.
- BAD GAME - Any game in which you figure to be the loser, because the other players are better than you.
- UNDER THE GUN - The position that has to act first in a round of betting.
- ACTION - Money that is being bet. "NO ACTION" means a hand or game has few bettors and fewer raisers. "Gimme some action" is ostensibly a plea for calls and raises.
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