The PokerNews Five Worst Beats of the Week

With Team PokerNews bringing you all the action from tournaments around the globe, we thought it would be fitting to go back through the week’s action and find the five worst beats of the week. We’ll say this: It was a bad week for pocket aces and…

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Poker slang:

• CARDS SPEAK - Winner(s) of the hand are determined by turning their cards face up, the best hand(s) wins (no declaration).
• BRODERICK CRAWFORD - In Hold'em, hole cards of 10-4. From the 1950s TV series "Highway Patrol", starring Broderick Crawford.
• FIFTH STREET - In stud poker, the fifth card to be dealt to each player. Sometimes used to refer to the last card dealt in Hold'em, although the more common term for this is RIVER (q.v.).
• FAVORITE - Before all the cards are dealt, a hand that figures to be the winner. Ant: UNDERDOG.
• RIVER - The last card dealt in a hand of stud or Hold'em.
• SCOOP - To take all of a pot that is normally split, either by winning both halves outright or winning one half when no players qualify for the other half.